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Pasadena Adjacent
Life Lived on the Edge of Pasadena
Month: August, 2009
August 30, 2009
August 26, 2009
Studio Visit: Exterior
Welcome friends! allow me to take you on a tour of the studio. Lets head up to the roof so I can show you a less familiar view of Los Angeles.
Here’s to our endless summer. We start out by looking south/east towards the water towers. They belong to the fair city of Vernon. Vernon daily photo blog ?? – NOT – Farmer John’s meat processing plant?? -YES! When the sky is white and the air is perfectly still, the sweet stench of blood is inescapable.
Looking east are the RR tracks and beyond that, the LA flood channel (euphemistically refered to as the Los Angeles River). You’ll need a misquito net to live here. The expanse of undeveloped land? A case of NIMBY. Cleared and slated to be a prison; the nearby mamacita’s of East LA said “No Way Jose! not another one!!” Beyond the empty tract is “little” Sears Tower. Looking north/west we see a one story building that serves as a strip club. My final zoom shot is of downtown proper. What you didn’t see on my 180 degree Wee Video tour is a view of the south/west; so heres a peek. Thats the Alameda Corridor.
Next stop….the interior
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August 25, 2009
Trash Tuesday #44: Where Getting it Cheap is Part of the Esthetic
I can’t tell you what Trash Tuesday #44 is exactly, but I can tell you it’s part of a pair. I suspect it’s ancestry is Japanese due to the grills “brick” pattern, the blue tinted steel plus where I found it. Curbside at that lovely Green and Green look alike craftsman on the north/east corner of Arroyo Blvd adjacent to the La Loma Street Bridge. It was part of a spectacular haul (a backyard cleanup?) but I had to take a deeply regretted pass on most of it. See, I came across this “slice of heaven” on a night walk and (she stifles a tear) had left my truck up in the Highlands. With limitations placed on me, I was forced into being selective. Why? because anything I fancied I’d have to drag under the bridge and hide. I think I chose well. When I returned with the truck, the curb had been picked over (which I was expecting). Fast forward to now; one grill I use on my bar-b-que and this one I keep for show.
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