January 2012
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holidayz
Seafood Ranch Market, Glassell Park/Eagle Rock
Nick’s Gingerbread Treehouse
Lulu comforting my dislocated knee
Craft Night w/ Marya
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patella
this is what the aftermath of a patella dislocation looks like.
dislocated my right knee while hanging out for hanukkah, eating churros, standing on the lavetta terrace steps, on a beautiful december night in Echo Park. maybe it’s a sign to slow down? probably not.
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echo park patch anniversary + hanukkah
as part of echo park patch’s 1-year anniversary, editor and time bank member Anthea Raymond bought a round of drinks and Alberto Tamales for everyone at local Echo Park favorite Bar 1642.
A band of bikers then headed over to Echo Park Ave. & Sunset to visit the Salinas Churros Truck in honor of Hanukkah. Yes, a truck, that sells fresh, hot, sweet churros. Apparently,...
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participatory figure drawing
i hosted a figure drawing class at Really Awesome Great Experiments. But instead of spending lots of money on a professional nude model, we just all took turns drawing each other, clothed, and swapping public transportation stories, drinking mulled wine and hot toddies.
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bruce's buddies pancake brunch
in collaboration with Really Awesome Great Experiments and their “8 1/2 x 11 Experiment”, Bruce’s Buddies threw a supper social, pancake brunch edition. We really wanted to take over the sidewalk, redefine Occidental Blvd. as one that has the possibility for more than something pedestrian and static: Occupy Sidewalk.
I love Los Angeles. Bags of oranges, all year...
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silent movie show feat. Will Gramling
“The incredible Mr. Gramling will be improving on the piano (and other instruments) to classic short silent films. We’re picking the movie right before, he’s gonna make something totally different.” @ Really Awesome Great Experiments
Buster Keaton in “Cops”
Charlie Chaplin in “One AM”
Buster Keaton in “One Week”
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white elephant party _ EPTB talent show
my first white elephant gift exchange party. Patrick’s awesome gift. Other gifts: whiskey stones, knife, colander, grater, plates, vintage playboy, and a portrait of me.
Echo Park Time Bank annual talent show at Barlow Respiratory Hospital in Echo Park. Story telling by Katrina.
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echo park community parade
Doug Tiano had an amazing idea for an Echo Park Time Bank & Bicycle Kitchen float for the annual Echo Park Holiday Community Parade.
Recycled cardboard, painted on one side with cars, smog, traffic, general unpleasantry.
The other side, painted with rivers, flowers, corn, flowers, clouds, happiness, love.
We took over Sunset Blvd. So great to have the roads to ourselves.
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8 1/2 x 11 Opening _ All-City Toy Ride
Really Awesome Great Experiments open with 8 1/2 x 11.
cards by Isis
screen-printed Furoshiki cloth
Donna, the dress-form, showcasing Graham Keegan’s hand-dyed Kikko indigo scarves.
paper lamp shades by Isis.
Tyvek ceiling.
Then off to the Annual Midnight Ridazz All-City Toy Ride from East Hollywood to Downtown. Then Downtown to a warehouse. with Ben, Marya,...
December 2011
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wonderland _ spring st. _ uniqueLA
wonderland _ echo park time bank garden group barn raising _ lincoln heights
yes, that is a water slide coming from the second floor balcony into a tea cup pool.
spring st. green bike lanes
unique la craft fair w/ le petit elefant
and paper & type
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apricot saplings
decided to grow my own apricots, from seed. and it involves a little more than just planting a pit into some soil.
first, you need to oh-so-gently break open the outside hard shell, to retrieve the actual apricot seed inside. i used vice grips. the inside seed looks like an almond.
then, i soaked the seed in water for a couple of days, changing the water daily.
i placed the seeds...
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san francisco
Black Friday BART Ride
450 Sutter Street lobby
826Valencia
Mission Dolores Park
Occupy Armani Exchange
Audi Avenue AKA Powell Street
Mission Workshop HQ
Audrey and Ravi eating heart attack hot dogs _ the Mission
Bernal Heights with Sean and Ravi
Tho!
de Young Museum
Contemporary Jewish Museum by Daniel Liebskind
Yuet Lee _ chinatown
Priscilla...
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coats + candles dinner
in honor of thanksgiving.
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BLOOM @ Materials & Applications
BLOOM is now installed at M&A till Spring 2012. Designed by Doris Sung in collaboration with Ingalill Wahlroos-Ritter and Matthew Melnyk.
“The design of the project, based on research by Sung and Wahlroos-Ritter, explores the possibilities of a thermally responsive metal surface which reacts to both the change in temperature and direct solar radiation. When the temperature of the...
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hector's fire academy graduation
My cousin, Hector, graduated from the Rio Hondo Fire Academy in Santa Fe Springs. Best part - they had live demonstrations after the ceremony.
Never taking the fire department for granted, again!
Amelia!
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Really Awesome Great Experiments
Remember when I did a small installation for sundance in the mini-market underneath my apartment building? Well, the gals have begun to hammer and bang away again. But this time, they are transforming the space into Really Awesome Great Experiments, and the first experiment will be “8 1/2 by 11”, a pop up shop all about paper and all things flat.
Graham has been helping...
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Roasted Chicken Dinner
I bought a whole chicken through Silver Lake Farms CSA. The chicken was from New Frontier Family Farm out in Chino, and was sustainably and organically raised. Having never cooked a whole chicken before, I thought this was a perfect piece of meat to start with. I implored the help of the girls from the Manzanita house to help me out.
Rachel collected some sage, thyme, and rosemary from her...
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echo park time bank potluck @ homegirl cafe
The Echo Park Time Bank monthly member potluck was held at our newest community member organization - Homegirl Café. They’ve built a beautiful garden in the back parking lot in Downtown LA, where they hope to grow 30% of their veggies/fruits and herbs from the garden!
Time Bank VIP member, Doug Tiano, showed off his clams from the Children’s Puppet Theater Show Seas of...
November 2011
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LaMuff Production Stills _ Schindler House _ Bona...
Took some production stills for LaMuff’s new music video for “Gold Lamé”. As you can imagine, everything was gold. Even the bagels.
LaMuff’s Monica Howe is a fellow Echo Park Time Bank member, who contacted me to help her out, in exchange for time dollars. Cha-ching! The shoot took place at Bar 1642, which is owned by fellow time bank member, Liz!
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megan hobza's birthday cook-off
i won fifth place! kale sesame tomato salad! at john and lee’s house in silver lake
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COYOL EP Release Show
COYOL EP Release Show in Downtown LA. COYOL is John Isaac Watters, Céleigh Chapman, and William Gramling.
DIY screenprint station with Scott Goldberg.
DIY Quesadilla Station with Carolyn and Graham.
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M&A_sublime environment w/ Judy Chicago
As part of the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time, architectural mad scientists Materials & Applications is reinvisioning Judy Chicago’s 1968 dry-ice sculpture “Disappearing Environments” - except with a bunch of volunteers and tools.
In our first workshop date, we got to play with 60 lbs. blocks of dry ice and road flares we will be using for the installation later in...
October 2011
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The Antlers _ I Don’t Want Love from Burst...
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Supper Social: Brunch Edition
John Isaac Watters hosted the latest Supper Social: Brunch Edition at his house in Echo Park. There were lots of donuts.
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LACMA
Spent 4 hours at LACMA, 2 of which were spent at the Tim Burton exhibit, which closes on Oct. 31. Go see it.
Renzo Piano Building Workshop _ Resnick Pavilion and Broad Contemporary
As part of Pacific Standard Time, LACMA had an exibit called California Design, 1930-1965: “Living In A Modern Way” by Hodgetts + Fung.
They built the Eames House INSIDE the Resnick. Just like...
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cicLAvia
My favorite day of the year! A re-envisioning of LA’s streets. Such as Somerset playing cello with his band along New Hampshire…….
….. And Greg Wittman sitting with his house plants and Chester on the 7th St. bridge over the 110……..
…… Or LAPD lined up outside the Coca-Cola Bottling Plant on Central Ave.
Always something new, everytime....
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Downtown LA
I spent much of the day in or around Downtown LA. First stop: Occupy LA @ LA City Hall.
Second stop: Tour de Fat @ LA Historic State Park
Donald, Amanda, Avishay
Erik
Cat in the Porta-Potty Karaoke
Third stop : Bonaventure Adventure @ Westin Bonaventure.
Walking tour with Dan Koeppel of The Big Parade through the LA City Planner Calvin Hamilton’s 1970’s...
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behind the scenes photoshoot for Jill Aiko Yee
Had the pleasure of working with my good friend Jill Aiko Yee for her ITtERATIONS WORKWEAR line. Shot 2 coats and 6 accessories with Ms. Jessica Mauricio. Here are some behind the scenes shots. Follow Jill’s website for the official photos.
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milk crate garden
Found some bright blue milk crates. And received some free California Bay trees from LA city’s “Million Trees LA” initiative. So I planted them in the crates, with burlap as a liner to liven up my street and apartment complex.
My complex doesn’t have a yard. So last season, i planted some tomatoes in some crates in the back patio. And now, it’s harvest...
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glendale night ride
Every Tuesday Night 8pm Glendale Public Library
Friend Erik started a bike ride in his hometown of Glendale. We rode past some historical spots in this quite city. Like the site of the first Baskin Robbins. And the Richardson House, one of the oldest wood frame structures in Glendale. And Forest Lawn Memorial Park where MJ is buried!
We ended at Los Feliz’s India Sweets and Spices...
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pasadena -> eagle rock -> downtown la
Took a nice ride from Pasadena to Eagle Rock, taking the Colorado Street Bridge, which overlooks the Arroyo Seco Freeway Bridge.
Seafood City in the Eagle Rock Plaza Shopping Center. So many aunties.
Cooked up some philipino longganisa sausages at Ashley and Co.’s Castle Crag.
Headed down to street for the Eagle Rock Music Festival.
Free tacos and dancing at Rantz Auto...
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Kern County Camping
Camping in Kern County at Lake Isabella. But first, picking up provisions at Wal-Mart in Bakersfield. Wow, have you guys been inside a Wal-Mart before? Wow.
We heard about some secret, low-key hot springs along the Kern River with a rope swing, and decided to find them. With only a small, nondescript yelp review as our guide, we set out to find the Remington Hot Springs. After picking...
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the cascades
Monterey Park is known for a lot of things: good dim sum, a large asian population, the best steamed dumplings. It’s probably not known for being: developed as the “Bel Air of the East”, the site of the first sealed bag of potato chips, Heritage Falls Park AKA “The Cascades”
I’ve always passed this park on Atlantic Blvd, but had never really stopped to see...
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jamie
shows off her new tattoo at kevin and tyler’s house warming in los feliz.
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Bikehaus _ High Modern in Hollywood
11.6 mile architectural bike ride with Brian of Bikehaus as part of the East Hollywood ArtCycle.
Around 40 riders convened at the LA Cahuenga Branch Library, and headed north to Barnsdall Art Park.
Hollyhock House, 1921 by Frank Lloyd Wright
Lovell Health House, 1929 by Richard Neutra
Pretty excited to have had Barbara Lamprecht, who has written and researched Neutra...
September 2011
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silver lake stairs hike
Avishay, Marya and I partook in a small hike, lead by the Big Parade, through the staircases of Silver Lake, starting with the Music Box Steps, site of the classic Laurel & Hardy 1932 comedy “The Music Box”.
L on Descanso -> R Stairs Down -> L Sunset Blvd. -> R. Edgecliffe Dr.
Corner of Edgecliffe Dr. & Griffith Park Blvd.
L Effie St. -> R Lucile...
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Ashley's Birthday
A Southern Birthday Dinner Party for Ashley Atkinson at her Eagle Rock Castle.
biscuits, black-eyed peas, succotash, pie, mac & cheese pie, sweet potatoes, coleslaw, hush puppies, BBQ beef, cornbread, collards, potato salad, okra, fried chicken…
Happy Birthday, Ashley!
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good bye, Kendall!
Kendall moved to New York. So we threw her a picnic potluck before she left at the Silver Lake Meadow. Frisbee ensued.
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drunk run club II
Eagle Rock Edition. On a hot hot day. With Abel, Donald, Joyce, Adria, and Judson. We started at the York on York. As you can tell from these 10 feet tall chalkboard menus, its a fancy place. I ordered some grilled bread - which was toast & butter. Though i’m not complaining; it was the best toast i’ve had in a while.
After a couple of beers, took a quick jog up York...
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Amelia
Bike out to Monterey Park to visit the latest addition to our family whose name only rhymes with memorabilia and regalia - Amelia! I even had Genevieve of Le Petit Elefant make her a custom order! Happy 1st Birthday!
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This Is It Collective
‘Bad Things That Could Happen’ A film using giant props made out of cardboard about bad things that could happen.
‘Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared’
THIS IS IT are a collective of illustrators, animators, artists and designers based in London.
Although each artist works individually and in a variety of different ways, collectively THIS IS IT aim to create simple,...