I saw this lady in a pretty skirt walking passed Pershing Square the other day.

Recycling?

Dear Residents of The Historic Core,

On the corner of Spring and 4th St.

What do you do to recycle cans, plastic bottles, etc? I notice people often leave their recyclables next to a public trash can. Are there people that actually come by to pick up the recyclables? Or do they just get thrown out with the regular trash?


-Urban Memo

Somebody I see around the historic core a lot

Stella on Main

Stella Dottir.

5th St.

Across the street from Bert Green Fine Art.

How much is that doggy on the window?

Wonton, chill'n.

I checked out the new neighborhood art supply store, Raw Materials on Main St. the other day. Their prices are much cheaper than you would assume from a small business. Go check them out.

Harlem Alley.

La Paletera

Watching the Watcher

The Hallway underneath a parking lot between Spring St and Broadway.

Vote for Don Garza for Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council Director.

Barbed Wire and Pink Flowers

Joe's Guns

On the patio of Old Bank DVD.

It is supposed to be 90 F yesterday.

I was walking out of the Rite Aid on Broadway and 5th yesterday and I saw some melted pink icream on the sidewalk.

My friend Andre

Yellow Mona Lisa

The other day I was walking around the Arts district and saw this dude painting an image of the Mona Lisa on a wall that I have never noticed before:





I asked him if I could take his picture. He looked up and said "yes". I didn't catch his name. Beyond that I didn't want to disrupt his momentum.

Portishead was in Downtown LA and Nobody Told Me About It

One of my favorite genres of music is 1990's music from Bristol, England. I am talking about Tricky, Massive Attack, and Portishead (often referred to as "trip hop", but some people do not think it should be called that for reasons that are not clear to me.) After not being active for nearly a decade, I have heard that Portishead is making a come back and is working on a new album. I haven't kept tabs on their activity, but I was skeptical yet hopeful... and then I noticed this post on LAist!! Excerpt:

With the Mayan Theater about half-full and slowly being filled with puffs of pot smoke, Portishead took the stage last night for their super-secret-show, and welcomed the crowd by announcing that it was a rehearsal for Coachella, and that this whole event is just so they can test their instruments.

The crowd was immediately awestruck, as the band started off with two new songs from their album Third, even the security guards.

To think..
Portishead..
was only... a more few blocks away from where I live..
putting on a secret show...
that I did not know about...
(but if I did, I would have dropped everything for two hours and have gone!)

!!Oh the mixture of excitement and dissapointment!!


I will end this post with links to Portishead on you tube:

Portishead, performing "Only You"




The video to "All Mine"


(And a live performance of "All Mine", which has been disabled for embedding.)


People who do not recognize Portishead may have heard their song "Sour Times" via cultural osmosis (of various contexts):

I was walking home from the gym the other day and decided to walk through Pershing Square. I saw some handsome chaps being photographed by their friend and I decided to take photographs as well.

We talked a little, I then grew self conscious of my post-work out stankyness, and carried on home.

Ricky the Pirate. At The Reagent Gallery about a month ago. I didn't catch the artist's name.

This mural is on a parking lot wall somewhere around Broadway and 2nd.