7 posts tagged “los angeles”

While walking around Downtown I saw a Parking Enforcement Officer across the street standing over a man who was lying in the street.

When I went over and began to photograph the man in the street a woman began to weep over my shoulder. She took out her cell phone and told the person on the other end that her father had just been struck by a car.

 

The woman was really shaken and had begun to weep really deeply so I put my camera down, and tried to calm her down. I took a newspaper out of my backpack and had her sit down on a nearby bench for a moment.

While I was trying to tell her to take deep breaths, a nurse came over and told the woman that she had witnessed the whole thing. I asked her if she knew CPR. She said she did but with a lot of shame in her eyes told me that she was afraid to administer it to the man in the street.

She gave her information to the crying woman and left. The crying woman having calmed down a bit got up when she saw that LAFD had showed up and the officers were asking her if she was related to the man on the floor.

I helped her over to the officers because she was elderly and I didn't want her to fall down due to the rain slicked concrete.

The officers and EMT's asked her again if she was related to the man in the street. Was he epileptic? Did he have a history of heart problems? The woman just wept and shook her head.

Then, she stopped for a second and shook her head. Then she said, "It's not him..it's not him...". She pulled out her cell phone and told someone on the other end that their father had not been struck by a car.

This still left the EMT with a man in the street. I walked over to the Parking Enforcement officer and gave him the nurses information and told him that she had claimed to see the whole thing.

At this point a man with a point and shoot digital camera in his right hand and a Styrofoam fast food soda cup in his left hand began photographing the event.

 

LAFD shot him a few dirty looks and then told him not to take anymore photographs.

He ignored them and stood on a bus stop bench and spilled a little soda on himself. Some of the onlookers began to give the guy dirty looks. But he didn't seem to notice.

The man was put into an ambulance and driven to LA County hospital.

At the time he left the EMT had yet to figure out what was wrong with him.

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Just got home from work.

But I had dinner at Frankie & Johnny's Pizza in Brentwood. Good Times.

Here are some pics of the walls within.

  So on my way to work yesterday,  I saw three men with signs and one with a guitar standing in front of Mann's Chinese Theatre. The man with the guitar was singing a song with lyrics professing that God hates homosexuals. Most of the tourists seemed to be really offended by these men and were visibly uncomfortable.

I asked one of the men, Jeremy, the youngest of the group, if he felt he was religious and he replied, "No, not really...I guess I'm religious in my own way, but not in the way that I believe in any particular faith or anything...". Originally from Louisiana Jeremy said that he always felt that he had a calling to Christ since he was a "young man in high school" and that he knew that was why he felt "different".

Jeremy and his group do not claim to be representing any religion or group. According to Jeremy he doesn't even know the other two guys there. He claims that they all just happened to be in passing through Los Angeles at the same time.

Having claimed to being a part of demonstrations similar to this I asked him what was the response he got from people. "Most people ignore us, but some people get really upset..." Asked if there has ever been violence, "...yeah, sometimes, but nothing too serious, just broken noses, and black eyes...."

Jeremy left Louisiana and his job to do this full time.

First off Renzo Piano is a genius.

In case you didn't know. In 2004, LACMA’s Board of Trustees unanimously approved plans to transform the museum with world-renowned architect Renzo Piano at the helm.

The idea of having his work in Los Angeles is an exciting idea. So for those of you unable to visit the construction site of the LACMA Here's a link to the 24 hour webcam.

Here's some photos of the proposed project.

For more info on the LACMA project click here.

If you're intrested in seeing more of Renzo Piano's work you can view his other projects at his website.

And if you're interested in seeing the Italian Architect on Charlie Rose talking about Art Institute Chicago expansion project (to open 2009), click here.

Enjoy!

Computer controlled colored lights fill 81 windows extending over 180 meters at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc.) Patterns are controlled by cellphone by any caller from any location, raising issues concerning private interaction and control of public spaces.

And here's a video of the piece.