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MALIBU SURFSIDE NEWS | October 7, 2020 | 23
Run Malibu
takes virtual
to a new
level
“When life gives you
lemons make Malibu Lemonade.”
That’s the attitude Run
Malibu organizers are taking
as their popular events
move from a single scenic
route and into the virtual
realm because of the pandemic.
Run Malibu will be offering
the standard distances
it has hosted for the past
11 years. Only this time,
5K and half marathon participants
can run wherever
they like, whenever they
like, Nov. 7-8.
But you don’t have to be
a distance die hard to take
part in the fun. If you can
walk, run or even crawl just
1.6 miles per day, you’ve
got what it takes for Run
Malibu’s 50-mile Challenge
— and you’ve got the
entire month of November
to finish.
Log your miles, and “as
you progress throughout
your challenge, you will
reach milestones and earn
badges,” according to the
event website.
Proceeds from the events
benefit the Boys & Girls
Club of Malibu, which, like
most nonprofits, has had
its share of hard times this
year, too.
For registration information
and plenty of guidance
to get you off the couch and
on your feet, go to runmalibu.com.
— Scott Steepleton
SWING
From Page 20
was the first Kardashian,”
Swing said. “She was a
nobody. She was famous
for being famous … and
God bless her. But to me,
at the time, I was mad.”
Mad because there was
no talent for which she
could credit all the attention.
There were simply
essentially self-funded
billboards.
“I’ve always been
against money,” Swing
continued. “Even though
I come from money and
design and culture, if you
start looking at my art, you
start picking up on it. I’m
making fun of couture,
brands, money, people
paying to get their way. So
here’s Angelyne, and, ‘So,
because you have money,
your husband is putting
billboards everywhere of
you.’”
Swing prefers that any
attention he’s received
stems from talent and his
ability to deliver what a
client wants.
Tommy Lee, he said,
calls him his little ninja.
“He calls me for anything.
‘Hey, I want a sculpture, I
want a painting, I want a
custom jacuzzi that looks
not like a jacuzzi.’”
At the height of the
design business, Swing
had 45 employees. “Even
though I’m an artist,” he
recalls of his mindset at
the time, “it was construction.”
To be sure, it’s what he
wanted.
But he wanted more.
More art and less construction.
The pandemic helped
move that transformation
along.
“Now, I’m really taking
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a risk to do only art … It
has to be either something
hung or is installed.”
Circling back to the
break that has hit us all and
what it means, Swing says
it’s all about growth.
“I’ve gone through a really
fun journey trying to
figure out who I want to
be,” he said. “I know I’m
very talented, I’m very
blessed. I beat myself up
for not being focused on
one type of art. But I think
it’s part of the journey.”
“Money has never been
my driving force,” he
added. “It’s always about
just to paint. And I always
say, ‘This is for fun or for
free.’”
Surfside News asked
Swing to do something
completely out of his milieu:
an original Halloween-themed
illustration for
this special print edition
that kids (or anyone, for
that matter) can color.
“There’ll be candy corns
and lemon drops and bats
and spider webs and mischievous
characters,” he
explained.
Once it’s colored, we encourage
the artist or a helper
to take a picture of the
page and email it to scott@
malibusurfsidenews.com,
and we’ll post some of
them on our website.
Some of the pictures
may also end up hanging
in Malibu Contemporary
Fine Art Gallery, malibucontemporaryart.com,
in
Malibu Lumber Yard, as
part of Swing’s new show
opening Oct. 17. The exhibition
will feature at
least 13 canvases — some
as large as 5-by-5-feet —
several custom surfboards
and other pieces.
Opening day will include
something along the
lines of a Disney FastPass
component. “You email
your RSVP with a time
that you’d like to come,”
Swing said. “You get there,
check in, maybe come
back in 10 minutes and go
in. That way, people aren’t
just waiting in these long
lines for no reason.”
Day Two — Oct. 18 —
will feature Swing painting
live. “People can
come and just watch me
throughout the day just
throwing paint.”
Proceeds from the sale
of that piece will go to A
Walk on Water.
“Like all my art shows,”
Swing said, “it’s about
sharing and experiencing
and having a good time.”
For more on Swing, go
to guerindesign.com. And
to hear about Swing’s favorite
Halloween memories,
go to YouTube.com
and search “In the studio
with Guerin Swing.
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Single Family 6721 Wandermere Rd. $5,950,000 $5,800,000 4B/4B 10.1.20 16
Single Family 25601 Whittemore Dr. $1,599,999 $1,607,000 3B/3B 9.30.20 57
Single Family 28936 Cliffside Dr. $21,500,000 $20,000,000 6B/4B 9.29.20 104
Single Family 23208 W Paloma Blanca Dr. $1,759,000 $1,550,000 3B/3B 9.25.20 49
Single Family 21609 Pacific Coast Hwy. $1,650,000 $1,765,000 2B/2B 9.28.20 9
Single Family 6307 Via Cataldo St. $2,895,000 $2,900,000 3B/3B 9.25.20 350
Lease 20731 Eaglepass Dr. $14,500/mth $14,000/mth 3B/3B 9.30.20 14
Lease 24762 Malibu Rd. $40,000/mth $40,000/mth 4B/5B 9.30.20 14
Lease 3916 Rambla Orienta $14,000/mth $13,300/mth 3B/3B 9.28.20 61
Lease 6771 Las Olas Way $6,500/mth $6,500/mth 3B/3B 9.26.20 39
Lease 29500 Heathercliff Rd. #226 $7,495/mth $7,495/mth 2B/2B 10.1.20 152
Lease 27400 Pacific Coast Hwy. #105 $20,000/mth $23,000/mth 3B/3B 9.29.20 363
Lease 6133 Ramirez Canyon Rd. $12,500/mth $14,500/mth 5B/4B 9.30.20 83
Lease 3606 Malibu Country Dr. $12,950/mth $12,500/mth 4B/4B 9.29.20 84
Lease 29706 Baden Pl. $9,000/mth $8,500/mth 4B/4B 9.28.20 81
Condo 11922 Whalers Ln. $529,000 $529,000 1B/1B 10.1.20 18
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