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...