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The Folks Who Moved in Next Door.
For about five years, an encampment of vagrants, with cars and trucks full of bikes, shopping carts, electronics, blankets, and various junk, spread their filthy circus along the corner of the Vanowen and Kester. There were men and women in parked cars, and drugs, and women in the back seats of the vehicles. The sidewalk…
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Obama Fundraiser: Silverlake, October 4, 2008.
For ten years a dead external hard drive lay abandoned in our garage, a device that once backed up our desktop computer from 2007-2012 and then suddenly died. We cleaned our garage last month and found the dead drive. We took it to a tech in Toluca Lake who retrieved everything for $150. Now we…
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The 1938 Book of Small Houses: Some Selections, Some Commentary.
Here is a 1938 book I dug up on Archive. org The 1938 Book of Small Houses is a selection of the best residential work of American architects. Published during the Great Depression, when there was a dire lack of housing, the book showcases how innovative, cost-conscious and community oriented architects built on a budget.…
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North Hollywood: High and Low.
East of Vineland Avenue, along or near Burbank Blvd, North Hollywood has a collection of small businesses, creatives, prop houses, and studio related companies that turn out goods and services, real and virtual. On a windy, clear, cool Saturday we came to walk around. We explored Satsuma, Chandler, Cumpston and Riverton Avenues. At 5453 Satsuma,…
Architecture, Arxis Design Studio, Chandler, Cumpston, Fuji XE3, Homeless, Los Angeles, Martin Iron Design, Masks, north hollywood, Pandemic, Photography, Praxis Custom Frame & Upholstery, Richard Riordan, Riverton, Robert Spiewak, Satsuma, Spacecraft, Steel Lighting Co., Toyota Tacoma, Triple C Polishing and Plating Co., VFX Video
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The Toolbox House, Osaka, Japan.
From Dwell Magazine, an example of a tight, urban house in a densely populated area of Osaka. As I have asked many, many times: why can’t this type of housing be constructed in the commercially zoned areas of Van Nuys? Near the Orange Line? Near the Civic Center? Imagine this fitted behind an alley in…
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Culver City Awakened.
After a long hiatus, we ventured Sunday morning down to Culver City to walk around the new buildings and the architectural oddities. Once a stronghold of flat, inland dullness, a largely white town peppered in a monotony of starter ranches and stucco apartments, barber shops, taco stands, model trains, gun stores, and typewriter repair shops,…
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