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AI Creates Lovely Houses.
Every new house around me, nearly every one, is ugly. They either have no architecture or they are builder’s standard stucco with vinyl windows and gargantuan garages. These garages will store junk (not vehicles) and the house will cost $700,000 to build and sell for 1.5 million or 2.5 million and still be the homeliest…
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Walking Along the 6th Street Bridge.
I finally made it down to the 6th Street Bridge. It’s an impressive structure that leaps and struts and flies over rail tracks and factories, electric yards and the river. It is startlingly plain, almost crude in its sculpted mass and bending arches. There are raw bolts attaching the cables to the concrete. Steel fences…
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So Long Flickr
I’ve been a member of the photo site Flickr since about 2005. During those early years, well before the postage stamp sized galleries of Instagram, I was posting high quality photography. I made friends on there, I found contacts, I met fellow photographers. Way more people, in fact, who shared my interests. People would leave…
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Out of the Past Hurts
Yesterday, after many years, Chris, an old friend I had in New York in the early 1990s, who later relocated to LA, and then fell out with me, reconnected.
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Artificial Intelligence Plans a Three-Day Itinerary to Van Nuys
AI knows everything about Van Nuys. But it has no opinions about Van Nuys. It hasn’t lived here 20 years, woken up under helicopter patrol, been robbed, assaulted, attacked or killed. It hasn’t driven down Victory Boulevard on a Saturday afternoon in the summer heat when there isn’t a soul walking down the street, just…
Artificial Intelligence, Barone’s Italian Restaurant, Beverly Garland Hotel, California, Crumbs and Whiskers, Links, Los Encinos State Historic Park, Magictravel, Mariscos Los Arcos, Mercado Buenos Aires, Nat’s Early Bite, Sherman Oaks Galleria, Skyzone Trampoline Park, The Front Yard, The Great Wall of Los Angeles, The Japanese Garden, Tokyo Fried Chicken, Van Nuys Airport, Van Nuys and the Valley, Woodley Park, Woodley Park Archery Range
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Thanks Erica!
Last night, around 8:30 PM, Erica picked up her Avocado Spread and two drinks from a Starbucks Drive-Thru (6833 Van Nuys Blvd, Van Nuys, CA 91405). Store #23369. Then she (or they, meaning two persons in the traditional sense of the word) drove to the 15000 Block of Hamlin Street, parked her vehicle, and devoured…
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