Yelling “Woo Love!” at a Dockweiler Beach Bonfire
Surfing and film photography come together and reflect one another during an epic Dockweiler Beach Bonfire.
Parks and Recreation Re-Enact A Historic Preservation Win
The Grizzl arc from Parks and Recreation is a remarkable example of a historic preservation win-win situation, where not only is parkland preserved, but adaptive reuse becomes part of the solution and a legacy business is saved from an unfeeling developer.
It’s the freakin’ Catalina Wine Mixer!
Arguably, Stepbrothers, this silly movie many of us know and love completely transformed the reality of Catalina Island and its tourism industry.
The Coffin Shop on Hollywood Boulevard
Coffin Shop is about chaos, love, ambition, and the inevitable blending of the three. We all know someone that is baffling, but we love them. Many of us know a place we love, even though that love may baffle others.
Insecure: Securing the Bag for Black Culture in Los Angeles
Insecure highlights black people in all our shapes and colors, and in all different kinds of locations - from law firms to Santa Monica Beach, and from the dingbat that is The Dunes to stylish mid-century modern homes that I grew up knowing as “the houses that rich black people live in”.
Up (2009): Stubborn Developers and Stubborn Old People
We all have a past. We all have ties to places - whether emotionally, financially, or both. There is a reason why preservationists can be stubborn or get angry. It’s not so much because they want to be, and far more because they are trying to protect a place that matters deeply to them.
You Can’t Dodge the Preservation Themes in Dodgeball (2004)
There is always space for enjoying state-of-the-art amenities, but we also need intimate spaces. Intimacy encourages lifelong bonds. When you tear down places like Average Joe’s, you replace intimacy with money, and that’s a big issue we’re dealing with in the US now: late-stage capitalism.
The Heritage in DNA: Kendrick Lamar v. BBL Drizzy Beef
Kendrick, Drake, Metro Boomin, Meg the Stallion, and J.Cole are all equally important in reminding us of an important exercise in hip-hop: the Beef.