Post undergrad in #DTLA

East LA native, went to school in New England. Living it up in DTLA. Thoughts that may be related to politics/philosophy (my majors), and things I like/enjoy: fashion, furniture, music, movies, TV, art, DIY, and the beach.

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Found this piece on the street today

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Nature has no human inhabitant who appreciates her.

Henry David Thoreau

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big rose color quickie

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Absolutely Beautiful 

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How philosophy can save your life: Jules Evans

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This is the funniest headline I've ever read.

Here's the actual article.

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Rap lyric signs are a hot find for street art enthusiasts

New York artist Jason Shelowitz brought his rap quotes projects to L.A. in December, but most of his signs have already disappeared.

Oh no! I wanted to see these signs.  

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East-sigh story: Just where is the Eastside of Los Angeles?

For more than a decade, the debate about what constitutes the Eastside has embroiled two clusters of L.A.'s oldest neighborhoods.

Definitely not Silver Lake.

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To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.  It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.

Henry David Thoreau in Walden

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Foster the People concert in DTLA.  I love living downtown.

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Pre-order Supermodel now at fosterthepeople.com & iTunes to get “Coming of Age” instantly! 

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This mural is in DTLA and I just saw their live concert

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Artist Putting Up Location-Specific Rap Lyric Signs All Over LA

Today we learned that the Fairfax/Beverly Grove/Mid-City area is a lot cooler than it seems, via artist Jay Shells's Rap Quotes project,...

So Cool! I'll keep an eye out for these signs.

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Found this stenciled art on this wet sidewalk this rainy LA morning.

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Machiavelli Was right

You remember the photograph: President Obama hunched in a corner of the Situation Room with his national-security staff, including Hillary Clinton with a hand over her mouth, watching the live feed from the compound in Pakistan where the killing of Osama bin Laden is under way. This is a Machiavellian moment: a political leader taking the ultimate risks that go with the exercise of power, now awaiting the judgment of fate. He knows that if the mission fails, his presidency is over, while if it succeeds, no one should ever again question his willingness to risk all.

It’s a Machiavellian moment in a second sense: an instance when public necessity requires actions that private ethics and religious values might condemn as unjust and immoral. We call these moments Machiavellian because it was Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince, written in 1513, that first laid bare the moral world of politics and the gulf between private conscience and the demands of public action.

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Snow in Los Angeles! City Hall, 1949

Los Angeles from 1898 till the 1960’s

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Snow?

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Wait, what?

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This hipster child.

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San Francisco Batkid is the best thing to happen this week And maybe even the best thing ever. Who could say no to a young boy who’s celebrating beating his cancer into remission?

Downtown San Francisco, thanks to the Make-a-Wish Greater Bay Area Foundation, city officials and the work of thousands of volunteers, turned into a Gotham City today, complete with villains like the Riddler and Penguin, just waiting for a tiny caped crusader to swoop in.

The San Francisco Chronicle even published a limited-edition “Batkid Saves City” issue.

Read more on young Miles’ struggle, and his eventual superheroics, over at L.A. Now and Share It Now. And if you’re so inspired, head over to the Make-A-Wish Foundation’s site and perhaps help make more dreams come true (once their site is done being swamped by bat-traffic).

Photo: Jeff Chiu / Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle