Category Archives: playing

Fountain for one

It’s going to be 96 degrees in downtown today. Probably the hottest day of the year so far. As I was stumbling around downtown the other day on my way to a meeting for the Moving Beyond Cars event, I … Continue reading

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Summer places

For the last two weeks I traded sidewalks for rivers, a two-bedroom house for a two-person tent, and public transit for a rental car (yes, which I drove hundreds of miles without incident, thank you very much). Along the way … Continue reading

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I’ll be at the pool

Summer finally showed up here in LA—complete with thunderstorms and humidity—just in time for me to get out of town. I’ll be on the road for a bit, hopefully filling my Flickr and Twitter streams with lots of adventures. Until … Continue reading

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The de LaB Manifesto (in rhyme)

I’m still buzzing from the amazing response to last weekend’s City Listening II (and the success of the Dwell on Design conference, and the fun of emceeing the LABC’s Los Angeles Architectural Awards…I’m telling you, it was quite a week!). … Continue reading

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Come to Dwell on Design & City Listening this weekend!

Update: In all the fabulosity of Saturday night, I screwed up and neglected to post the winning raffle tickets for our eight door prizes. If you were at City Listening and had a raffle ticket, check here to see if … Continue reading

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River ride

When the sky isn’t dumping a year’s worth of rain onto Los Angeles in five days, one of my favorite places to go in the city is the bike path of the LA River. This concrete chute is probably the … Continue reading

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Smokin’ sidewalks

I must have walked by this a thousand times and I never noticed it until I embarked upon a little pub crawl in an 80-degree Hollywood yesterday. The doorway to this smoke shop is made from the same terrazzo as … Continue reading

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Robot love

I had a rather amazing experience last weekend at my Hand-Stitched Robot Ornament workshop, thanks to 826LA and Unique Los Angeles! We had five tables of madly-talented scientists sewing, gluing and pipe-cleaning away for hours as they each assembled (and … Continue reading

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Eat My Words: Designed for play

Say goodbye to off-the-shelf cartoon-character metalscapes anchored in skinned knee-ready blacktop. In the latest issue of I.D. I got to explore a renaissance in intelligent playground design thanks to some of the country’s most playful architects, designers and landscape architects. … Continue reading

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Walk with me

This weekend marks the final 40 miles in a journey that began when I was running in Beachwood Canyon about two weeks after I first moved to LA. I turned a corner, did a double-take and ran backwards until my … Continue reading

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