visiting LA
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- holibobs
hello im coming over from london to LA for 2 weeks from june 20th for a little trip, ive not been before but it would be great to meet up with some likeminded designers/illustrators/galleries... what graphic design studios are hot in LA right now? give me ideas how i can while away my time interestingly...
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- MrD0
good luck
- MrD0
a GIRL is visiting LA
whats wrong with you guys?
- spk0
ooo go poke around down in culver city - blkmrkt gallery is cool and there are a couple others in that neighborhood that rock.. plus nice cafes and stuff. venice is the home of the LA art scene... worth checking out. and does the ice cream shop that david cho got his start at still have his stuff?
i would also recommend driving up into topanga canyon and going for a hike up in the national forest... a really nice break from the city.
what else? shopping and gallery hunting in silver lake/echo park - pick up the silver lake map/guide when you get there.
wallpaper does a nice little guide book you can pick up cheap as well... i have two ifyou want me to send it your way.
does that help?
- spk0
oh i guess you werent really looking for todos in LA.. but there you go anyway.
- fortified0
I sent you an email on your myspace with a few ideas. I'll keep my feelers out there and let you know should I come across anything you shouldn't miss.
Looking at the concert calendar, looks like there are about 3 really good shows every night, tough choices.
Neighborhoods worth visiting: downtown, culver city, silverlake/echopark/hwood, venice/santa monica, long beach (where I live).
- shellie0
Its out of the way but check out El Matador.. a beach way north in Malibu. Its a bitch to get there but you'll effectively fall in love to LA. Don't mess with any of the other beaches.
There is no lifeguard so dont get hurt playing in rocks. if you bring alcohol bring it in a water bottle but no cups you'll get a ticket (maybe). Get there early. The water eventually covers most of it later. There are really dope caves to crawl through (I think 3 or 4) but you wont be able to get through after high tide at 4pm.
The pictures here don't show how much rad stuff is there.
http://www.lamountains.com/parks…
http://search.cityguide.aol.com/…
- RADNESS0
Stay away from hollywood. Its just chaos and douches.
- gdodds0
Hang around Venice, you will love it and find lots of inspirational places to chill and check out. I myspace'd ya if you need more ideas. If you fall in love with LA just remember, it won't love you back. Socals a bitch like that.
- bukka0
Getty Museum is nice, beautiful area and good view.
- mitsu0
shellie, is that near leo carillo state beach?
- ninjasavant0
LACMA is huge and awesome.
If youre into animation and you can swing it some how the Rhythm and Hues studio is a neat place to tour. Had a friend who worked there years ago and got to see the place.
Otherwise LA doesn't really do much for me.
- fortified0
LA is a funny city, its the place everyone loves to hate. This little fact is something that sort of endears me to it.
Being a transplant here, I never heard anything positive from all my too cool for school friends who (wrongfully) assumed it was the clichéd city awash with the desperate and balding actors with their Paris Hilton clone girlfriends.
First of all this place is FUCKING HUGE, as in 1 in 8 Americans live in southern California. I don't think anything that large could be said to be any one thing.
It is sprawled, polluted and overpopulated, which are good reasons to hate it. But the reason most people give that they don't like LA: tits, muscles, actors/industry peeps etc are such a tiny segment of the population really it just doesn't apply to a city this large.
If you want to make any real generalizations about LA, you could say it is full of non-english speaking, brown and over-weight people and be perfectly accurate, but for some reason the paltry 2% of what people assume LA to be somehow becomes what defines it.
Just a casual observation, as you were.
- JackRyan0
Hahaha...yeah I agree. I lived in the belly of the beast for 6 years. I moved for a job. There are a lot of superficial things to hate about it. One of the things that drove me nuts was always meeting people out and about that seemed to always be trying to do/be something that they weren't. It was hard to meet "real" people out there...that didn't have this aura of bullshit about them. It's a lot of fun for sure. It's one of few cities that if I was bored, I would just jump in my car and drive around and explore...and always find something new.
- onewhoslaps0
don't.
- fortified0
^ I say go ahead and do it! I don't see why not, you're on the pill.
- tonylarson0
You can come and visit the Art Dump...I don't know if we're a hot design studio but we try our hardest...most of the time...
We're in the South Bay, just south of Venice Beach etc..If you have a car, it's easy.
At the least, you'll probably leave here with some tee shirts.
Laters,
-Ttheartdump.com
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