Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles. - Frank Lloyd Wright
Eclectic Architecture of LA
Los Angeles is a place of paradoxes. It's a place where you can list all the predictable cliches, yet many things have little or no continuity.
A man sleeping on the floor of the Hollywood Walk of Fame in front of the El Capitan Theater
The disturbing and beautiful are often one and the same. What you find so beautiful, attractive, and lust-worthy are also the exact things that are disgusting and disturbing.
Hollywood Sign Shadow
People and locales adjacent to each other are vastly different. Neighborhoods are disjointed in social class, interests, and architecture. There's no city center. LA exists as a pile of shard ends, not much different than the view through a kaleidoscope.
John Lautner: Chemosphere
Like a circus, oddities are abundant. Ridiculous stilted houses in the hills and large caricatures atop of restaurants have become a normal sight in contrast to things that are far stranger.
Randy's Donuts
It's a city of dreamers. So much so that it's natural for it to be a city of dreams that never come to fruition. It's a city that's constantly trying hard to restructure itself and at the same time, preserve itself.
Santa Monica Promenade
A hobo who is using the sidewalk curb as a pillow in front of a billion-dollar tech company. Celeb fetishes are force-fed. A woman who smiles at you in passing is the woman you see later that evening in a Netflix special.
Celebrities in front of Angel's Flight
Bradbury Building during Christmastime
It’s puzzling why people are so laid back here. There is so much to worry about. There is a real need for preparation and urgency. So many things to get in order. Everything from class inequality to the threats of mother nature. Somehow, people tend to be carefree.
Traffic in a tangled highway of noodles, often purposeless valet parking attendants on an empty parking lot, growing lines of people by which a restaurant's quality is judged, and potential motions in the fault line beneath that can erase it all.
