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Kid with Sign.
Month: April 2007
Valli-Royale.
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The informality and openness of this building is markedly different than how we build today. We are much more security conscious than in the late 1950s.
In those days, women still wore white gloves and men were capped in fedoras, yet the architecture of California was relaxed, innovative and whimsical.
People who moved to California back then entered a state with the nation’s finest school system, brand new freeways and progressive thinking in government, education and transportation.
Walking along Valleyheart Drive in Studio City, another thought came to mind: these buildings are no better architecturally or structurally than those slum apartments on Kester and Vanowen in Van Nuys.
Almost the entire Valley, and for that matter post-war Los Angeles, is full of these two and three story apartments. But Studio City, with its nearby shops and walkable streets and pedestrian life along Ventura Blvd. is far more livable and inviting than the sprawl of Reseda, Van Nuys and Northridge.
LA City Planner Gail Goldberg defines a neighborhood as a place where one can walk to a coffeehouse, a bookstore and a movie theater. How about walking to school, or walking to the doctor, to a house of worship?
Dan Atteo: Chicago Photographer.
Please read my post on “Andyeye” about Dan Atteo, a Chicago photographer.
Colorado Cobblestone–Highland Park MI
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Here is another Highland Park, which is located in Michigan. It must have fallen on hard times, because even this exceptional home is abandoned.
Imagine if this was in Pasadena or Highland Park, Los Angeles. How much would it be worth?
Detroit has an exceptional amount of grand old architecture waiting for the city’s rebirth. Too bad we couldn’t take some billions from Haliburton and put it into a Detroit redevelopment fund.
NBC News: a Joke.
Just this morning suicide bombers blew up a bridge across the Tigris River and later bombed inside the Iraqi parliament killing lawmakers. Absolutely astonishing carnage and violence, that one would think a “news organization” might be compelled to report.
Instead, NBC’s “Today” show announces “breaking news” that Don Imus has been dropped and the other story, that American Idol’s Sanjaya Malakar has made it to another round in the contest. News that really matters…..to the bottom line.
NBC News President Steve Capus wrote this in press release:
“Think long and hard about the people we choose to use as pundits… for sound bites… and to help shape our journalism. Let’s make sure that our work is reflective of America. Let’s encourage a diversity of opinion in our newsrooms. Let’s do all we can to ensure a diverse workforce at all levels of our organizations. Speak up quickly when you see or hear something that is not right. That is the culture of NBC News, at our best. And to be clear, I want nothing but the best FROM this organization and FOR this organization.”
He wants nothing but the best: Sanjaya and Imus. Sanjaya and Imus. Sanjaya and Imus.
Shame on you Imus!
Shame on you Imus for your disparaging remarks against women, athletes, blacks and other suffering minorities.
Here are some lyrics by “Crime Mob”:
I like it when she
Rock her hips then wave and sip
She rock her hips then wave and sip
She rock her hips
She rock her hips
She rock her hips then
Wave and sip
Look at them hips, I like how she rock it
She bend that thing ova and to the ground
She be dropping and popping hard as she can,
Got me hard in the pants
Because she all in her stash,
Doing her muthafucken dance man
Look, lil’ buddy cute in the face
She rock her hips to the bass
She take a sip when she wave
And wanna get wit Lil’J
After she dance on that pole
I pull my cash so quick and fast
When that ass hit the floor
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Imus must learn to show respect and restraint in his inadvisable comments.
Here in Van Nuys 
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