judgmental LA

MAP Judgmental Map of Los Angeles via judgmentalmaps.com

Unfounded comments on the "Judgmental Los Angeles" map - this uncensored mental map (not pictured above) gives a humorous look at why Los Angeles is sort of a relief to be in (outside of the traffic). I'd argue it's evidence that LA is more ecological and sustainable than any other ol' town doomed for all the LEED points and green pretty acronyms in the world. A list that unsuccessfully articulates why - spontaneity, room to exist, equitably mutual authentically discriminate, still together, respect, microclimate, boundaries, lost in translation, new with old, resourceful, opportunistic, dynamic, transparent, imperfect. In reference to the above diagram: of course people are not birds.

Rowland Heights, 1942

PLACE Rowland Heights did not exist in 1942, exactly

It's hard to imagine that this place existed before we did, before Hong Kong Supermarket, before 99 Ranch, before it was legal for Chinese people to be there.  In 1942, this place was simultaneously shifting -- simultaneous to World War II, the Holocaust, Japanese occupation, the Chinese Exclusion Act -- all perfectly pushing and pulling people in time and space to form what is Rowland Heights now taken at face value.  Rowland Heights is somewhat of a miracle from the perspective of a 1942 map. 1942, when Diamond Bar was a geological feature, named after sediment deposits along Brea Creek.  As was the hills, the heights, ranches, and rodeos -- they were real, too, in 1942. 

1942 Anaheim Quadrangle via the War Department

vegetables and plants

BOOK Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings by Jorge Luis Borges (1964)

p. 89  "The execution was set for March 29th, at 9:00 A.M. This delay (whose importance the reader will grasp later) was owing to the desire on the authorities' part to proceed impersonally and slowly, after the manner of vegetables and plants."

- themes for delightful mind bending -

probability and infinity
working dream
false time
symmetry

p. 91  "Hladik felt the verse form to be essential because it makes it impossible for the spectators to lose sight of irreality, one of art's requisites."

- fun thoughts on irreality -

if 

All time was occurring in a simultaneous moment.

All time was occurring in imagination. 

All time was encapsulated in memory.

Part of the time was occurring in a simultaneous moment, the rest was part of a linear history somehow.

Part of the time was occurring in imagination, the rest was purely physical somehow.

Part of the time was encapsulated in memory, the rest was never captured somehow.

All space was occurring in a simultaneous moment.

All space was occurring in imagination.

All space was encapsulated in memory. 

Part of space was occurring in a simultaneous moment, the rest was part of a linear history somehow.

Part of space was occurring in imagination, the rest was purely physical somehow.

Part of space was encapsulated in memory, the rest was never captured somehow.

All experience was occurring in a simultaneous moment.

All experience was occurring in imagination.

All experience was encapsulated in memory.

Part of experience was occurring in a simultaneous moment, the rest was part of a linear history somehow.

Part of experience was occurring in imagination, the rest was purely physical somehow.

Part of experience was encapsulated in memory, the rest was never captured somehow. 

Birds

TOWN Bodega Bay























Hitchcock got it right
Turning a common little thing into a worst nightmare
Turning every look toward rational suspicion
Turning foggy Bodega Bay into a bird war

[cheep cheep cheep]

post notes: Bodega Bay is to Cornwall, England, as is the bird to the kamikaze plane -- the film, The Birds (1963), was based on a book, which was inspired by the events of World War II, which was inspired by --

Professor

CAT in a van: Professor

orange curtain notes

RESEARCH Design for Combustible Landscapes




curtain 
"a piece of material suspended at the top to form a covering or screen"
"that can be raised or lowered at the front of a stage"
"a disastrous outcome"
"to conceal, to shield"

The Orange Curtain 
slang for the Puente Hills that separate Orange County from LA County

clearance dimensions
30'
50'

five methods for brush clearing
prescribed fire
mechanical brush removal
chemical application
biological control
hand clearing

via County of Los Angeles Fire Department
Fuel Modification Plan Guidelines: A Firewise Landscape Guide for Creating and Maintaining Defensible Space
Fire Hazard Reduction Programs