March 31st, 2009

Take offs

The thing about L.A. before you even land is the lights. Everywhere. Like a circuit board. Beneath or at least near each is a story, a life, a world. Only a glance and I’m reminded of that.

It’s late, but I know the way it would look in the sunlight, the circuit boards stretching between

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March 2nd, 2009

Seen This Week: Feb. 23 - Mar 2

It has been a bit of one of those weekends for me — not to complain to strangers, though — I’ll let the images speak for themselves. Highlights include an afternoon on campus at USC, to a Saturday afternoon visit to the Bicycle district at Heliotrope and Melrose, and a quick jaunt up the

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February 26th, 2009

From New York to Jollibee and Back Again

For about a year I’ve had an inadvertent subscription to New York Magazine. Somehow it just started appearing in my mailbox. I kinda thought perhaps I had tried to subscribe to The New Yorker, made some ridiculous mistake, then forgotten about the episode. Strangely, none of my credit card or bank

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February 23rd, 2009

Seen This Week: Paradise for $5

A streetfront on Vermont Ave. with a big $5 haircut sign in blue letters on a yellow background.Read the rest of Seen This Week: Paradise for $5

February 20th, 2009

Adaptive Reuse: Parking Meters to Bike Racks

I’m in the midst of preparing some posts about the Expanding Vision of Sustainable Mobility summit hosted this week by the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. In doing so, I’m semi-procrastinating by skimming long-ago bookmarked blog entries and Web sites I set aside for reference in my Read the rest of Adaptive Reuse: Parking Meters to Bike Racks