by Chris Barrus
Somewhere awhile back I read that coyotes were being sighted in Hollywood. I certainly didn’t expect to see one as far south as Detroit and 4th St. near La Brea. This guy was just loping along 4th probably looking for some grub and/or water. I suspect that after the Griffith Park fire, there’s probably a lot of critters looking for the same.
(Blurry phone cam picture shot out my car window)
…going to a lecture about futurist city design and architecture inside a re-purposed wind tunnel owned by an art school while a brush fire threatens to burn the city down.
Yet another good BLDGBLOG event though I wish there was more time to lift it out of the show-and-tell blitzkrieg. The one question I wanted to ask the panel was if they considered and/or incorporated the temporal nature of city evolution. As a sci-fi artist for movies, it seems the tendency would be to tilt toward ground-up master planning, but cities aren’t hegemonic areas, they grow, go broke, get blighted, get hit by deorbiting star destroyers, get rebuilt, attacked by Godzilla, new stuff built on top of old stuff, etc.
The last couple of Star Wars movies hinted at that evolution, but not nearly as thorough as portrayed in Blade Runner or perhaps A.I.
Taken outside my workplace in Glendale about 10 minutes ago.
The ScannerBuff Network is streaming radio traffic from L.A. County Fire’s Mutual Aid channel if you want to listen in. Also see Flickr photos tagged fire.
Over the course of their life span, every blog has to hit several content stereotypes. One is cat pictures. Another is “What ‘xxx’ am I?” quiz graphics. Another is band hype.
I haven’t owned a cat in fifteen years, but I can check off another blog stereotype by mentioning that an Ex-Detectives track has been posted over on the MySpace page. Yay us!
I can’t be the only Los Angeles blogger that has noticed the similarity between this
And this
Sheesh, KCBS only just moves out of Columbia Square to their new Studio City digs and already they’re declaring war on Los Angeles. I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall in the focus group that approved this ad campaign.