{"id":3381,"date":"2016-12-26T21:36:25","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T21:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=3381"},"modified":"2018-10-03T22:32:25","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T22:32:25","slug":"los-angeles-photo-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=3381","title":{"rendered":"Robert Stark talks about his trip to LA"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Robert Stark joined with co-host Pilleater<\/a>,\u00a0Rabbit<\/a>, and\u00a0Charles Edward Lincoln<\/a>, talk about his recent trip to his hometown LA<\/p>\n

Topics include:<\/p>\n

The Hollywood imagery and outsider stereotypes of LA
\nThe history of LA
\nHow LA’s urban core is spread out over a large geographic area from Santa Monica on the Coast to Downtown LA
\nRobert’s disclaimer that the photos capture the best of LA, but that most of the spaces in between are unappealing due to the cities sprawl
\nLA’s transit system
\nSouth Central LA
\nWest Hollywood, and Rabbit’s experience living there
\nDowntown LA, the gentrification of the historic core, the grittiness and vintage signage of\u00a0Broadway<\/a>, and\u00a0the Serial Killers Who Haunted The Cecil Hotel<\/a>
\nDowntown LA’s architecture including John Portman’s\u00a0Bonaventure Hotel<\/a>, and the\u00a0the 80’s Art Deco revival<\/a>\u00a0Home Savings Building <\/a> where Charles Lincoln worked
\nBeverly Hills, the 80’s futurist\u00a0Rodeo Collection<\/a>, the “Vaporwave”\u00a0Roman Fountain <\/a>, and the the 70 futurist\/late modernist<\/a>\u00a0Roxbury Plaza<\/a>
\nCentury City<\/a>, which originally had a 60’s futurist aesthetic, was the the film location of\u00a0Conquest of the Planet of the Apes<\/a>, and the\u00a0Century City Mall<\/a>
\n1980’s Malls including the\u00a0Beverly Center<\/a>(Original image<\/a>),\u00a0Westside Pavilion<\/a>, which reminds Pilleater of the game\u00a0Myst<\/a>, and\u00a0the renovation of those malls<\/a>\u00a0which ruined their aesthetic
\nHistoric preservation trends starting with demolition of the Art Deco\u00a0Richfield Tower<\/a>\u00a0in Downtown LA, to the\u00a0lack of preservation for 80’s architecture today
\nNew architecture inspired by past styles including the new\u00a0Streamline Moderne<\/a>\u00a0Under construction Beverly Hilton tower<\/a>,\u00a070’s futurist inspired renderings for skyscrapers<\/a><\/span>, and Rabbit’s observation that many apartments are being retrofited in mid-century modern styles
\nSanta Monica, the waterfront, architecture including the Art Deco\u00a0Clock Tower<\/a>, and\u00a0Santa Monica NIMBY Restriction on heights<\/a>
\nThe\u00a0Interactive Cafe<\/a>, which is one of the last surviving independent businesses in downtown Santa Monica, and Pilleater’s point that it has a Cyberpunk<\/a>\u00a0aesthetic
\nThe high cost of housing in LA, even in unappealing areas
\nThe San Fernando Valley, which was traditionally home to LA’s middle class
\nDemographic trends, the destruction of the white middle class, gentrification of the urban core, and new suburban ghettos in the desert
\nRabbit’s point about SWPLs he met in LA who look down on\u00a0the suburban middle class
\nThe Alt Left dilemma between identifying with SWPL Culture, and urbanist aesthetics, and supporting white middle class identitarianism, which often lacks strong aesthetic visions<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/LA-Trip.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

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