Ansel Adams’ ‘lost’ LA photos to go on display at drkrm and LA public library.
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/01/ansel_adams_lost_la_photo.php
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Oct 11
Found a Coconut
I was running on the beach and I found a coconut by the Santa Monica pier. I presume it was carried here by the current. I considered taking it, but decided I wouldn’t know what to do with it. So I just left it on the beach.
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Oct 11
Eames House , Barbie’s Scandinavian Dream House
I got to check this out during the members preview on Thursday. It was amazing. I think my life might suck less if I had Quincy’s couch.
This weekend, as part of (what else?) the mega mid-century SoCal art survey Pacific Standard Time, LACMA will open California Design, 1930-1965: “Living in a Modern Way.” It’s the first major exhibition of California mid-century modern design …
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Oct 11
California breaks from 50-state probe into mortgage lenders [Updated] – latimes.com
California Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris will no longer take part in a national foreclosure probe of some of the nation’s biggest banks, which are accused of pervasive misconduct in dealing with troubled homeowners.
Harris removed herself from talks by a coalition of state attorneys general and federal agencies investigating abusive foreclosure practices because the nation’s five largest mortgage servicers were not offering California homeowners relief commensurate to what people in the state had suffered, Harris told The Times on Friday.
via California breaks from 50-state probe into mortgage lenders [Updated] – latimes.com.
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Aug 11
Textbooks to Extol thr Virtues of Plastic Bags
As if it weren’t already weird enough. I didn’t realize this, but apparently the content of our children’s textbooks is up for sale to the highest bidder. The most recent sponsor is the lobbying group that serves the guys making all those plastic bags. They’ve successfully mandated the state to censor any discussion of the negative impact they have on the natural environment. But they’be gone a step further and manufactured language to extol the virtues of plastic bags so future school children will have a great example of the mockery we’ve made out of our legislative democracy.
Kyle Hayes