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[edit] Dichotomies 2009

things:

smog - sproul - traffic - plam trees - concrete - single family homes - electric posts - billboards - motels - gas stations - potholes - parking garages

characteristics

isolation - fun - fake - liberation - freedom - opportunity - oppression - overwhelming - warm

Previous Dichotomies

Fabian: sensorialess - rootless

Alexandar: goo goo - concrete

Josephine: Napoleon complex city; asphalt bubble gum; LA woman

Ivan: Cultural Influence/ Diversity

gabriel: God does not live here anymore. the police came looking for him this morning.

Calvin: cement <3 - attached nothing - upsidedown

Mojan Javadi: Kids around La. Shallow

Kyle: ......unconscious runt-mind....

Diego: Free individuals obsessed about privacy. Distance/Isolation

Diego: Dead Mirrors

Kozue: Faded, toilet

Letisia: Massive; warmth

Cristina: Incoherence, incongruency jULIE: iNSINCERE iNSULATION

ALFONSO: (OVERLAID IMPOSITION) GREY

alf: infection. gaping. cavity.

jeff: ping-pong concrete

Los Angeles essence

Incongruency, incoherence, blue,

ample, cold, blue, sad, solitary, 

convergence, fake, plastic transitory, no roots, beach, palms,

mountain, hollywood, abundance, 

windy, big, injustice, power, immigrants,

money, love, misery, homeless, diversity, exclusion.

Dichotomies of L.A.

lonely stucco fast food
fantasy police loud
childish stars at night home
elderly illusion ocean
pockets hidden deadly
flat voluptuos macho

Los Angeles is Diversity Diversity influences the world and culture of all active participants in Los Angeles civic life. Los Angeles culture is synonomous with diversity. The foods of LA are all those of the world. Los Angeles is completely made of immigrants. None are indigenous to the land. People of different cultures are forced to come together and share a space. Although people seperate into different groups, it is impossible to live in isolation. Any place can have a person from any side of the world. My culture is what I have adopted from all the intercultural contact that happens within the city. Los Angeles is Multinational. Multi Lingual. Large. Diverse.

• floaty
• gutless
• diffusing
• Endless
• Evolving
• Changing
• Vast
• video
• Hasty
• Vivid
• Impetuous
• Shallow

• Ex-Seperated
• Magnetic
• Uncompromising
• Vehement

I live in a world of daylight.
Jewels spread across black velvet.
Turn right at the light,
Merge. Hope to emerge
Mediocre fantasies pulsate POP
Lost past, lost love, lost, lost lost

I live in a world of daylight.
Neon wanderer with fluorescent skin
With it. cruising the boulevard. Hit. Score.
Spread me thin, work faster, harder.
My imagined carrot carried by you
and you and you.

fragmented

isolated

narcissistic

gluttonous

numb

clotted

ungainly

imitational

superficial

irrational

sensational

sensationless

blind

simulacrum. And all of this is NOThing but ME.

[edit] Ways of Seeing

(la)

Look at her folder

just old papers

Look at his

strong broad shoulders

There must be something about it

in it

for it

with it

Like this

in L.A.

just can't see it