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#TeamPixel Yesterday, I walked along Lincoln by the Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve to the Ballona Creek Bike Path where I discovered this graffiti revelation, "Q: Who killed Crystal A: April" with a lovely dagger through flaming heart graphic. It looked like it was drawn on the concrete with a paint marker. . I got there by walking along a stretch of highway with no sidewalk. I encountered a couple unhoused folk who gently asked me to leave them and nearby unseen folk alone in their camped sites, which i quietly did. I passed dilapidated and maybe forgotten bits of urban architecture. It wasn't pretty but it was very grounding. I like to walk where I'm not expected (without being too reckless). Check my stories for glimpses. . P.S. I'd like to practice taking photos of a human other than myself! Please let me know if you're in California and are willing to let me take pics of you, with no money exchanging hands. BUT, you'll be welcome to use the photos however you like. . If you need help doing something like protecting queer lives & rights or protesting book banning, guns, or cops, try using @resistbot to tell your representatives how you feel about one issue. And later maybe another. And so on. If you go out to vote or protest in person, please #WearAMask. . I'm lucky enough to be comfortable but I'm still poor and could use help saving for a new car. If you like what i share online, you could gift me! - Cash app $paulidin - Venmo @Paul-Roth - PayPal @paulroth - Amazon wishlist https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1KB07NUAQ3Y8F?ref_=wl_share (at Ballona Creek Bike Path) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpDK3U-LgXv/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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A lil sneak peek...
This scene is so silly that I have to share it early. From the Bonpensiero Bloodlines Remix, Beckett is looking for a certain friend in the Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve, right near Venice Beach:
Perhaps he would do a lap around the wetlands—perhaps through sheer dumb luck he would bump into some sign of other Gangrel. Once he started, the lope was an easy one, with wide paths lining what in the city passed for scenic, natural views. He was just arriving at the gas company and university when the silhouette of a coyote stepped into a phosphorescent circle of lamppost light.
Beckett slowed to a trot before taking a deep breath. Yes—that grave soil smell, with the addition of the girt of sand, acrid sunscreen, and surfboard wax. And if that wasn’t enough of a hint, the coyote’s shape melted and reformed into that of a man wearing nothing but swim trunks.
“Heeeeeeey buddy,” the stranger said. His skin was deeply tan, and the hair on his head was mop of fluffy blonde surfer curls. “My name’s Gangrel Pete!”
Might as well be polite. Beckett transformed back into his human shape, and he felt distinctly overdressed. Pete raised his left hand toward Beckett, the fingers stretched upward. When Beckett gave a quizzical look, Pete said, “Ohhhh, you’re an old one, ain’t ya? Have you had a high-five before, my dude?”
“Pardon?”
“Aw, man, is it okay I touch your arm? I don’t mean harm, just gonna orient you.”
This Kindred…was bizarre. But when in Rome. Er, Venice Beach. He nodded his consent. “Go ahead.”
“Okay, so, like this nice gay baseball dude named Glenn Burke invented it back in 1977. You gotta hit your palm with mine. Fingers can touch too,” Pete explained. Carefully, with his free hand, he guided Beckett by the wrist until their palms hit with a tap. “The kine do it all the time. I think it’s fun!”
“Evidently,” Beckett said.
“Okay, now put a little strength behind it. Not, like, Kindred strength, but, yanno, a little enthusiasm.”
Beckett and Pete clapped their hands together with a satisfying slapping noise. The motion gave him a thrill. Huh. He would have to note this new form of greeting in his diary.
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It reminds me of the trees I saw when sleeping on the ground in Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve in Marina Del Rey, years ago. And the bright lights of the street shining through the few trees between us and the street, and the lower hills than I'm used to in Seattle, where the trees don't get to tower over the surrounding hills when you lay on the ground. I just did ultramarine for the purple mix in the lighter streaks, and then straight dioxazine purple and phthalocyanine blue green shade for the darker streaks, and I like how there is just the blue granulation in the light streaks.
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Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve. I’ll be honest with you—it was a shame I didn’t have color film loaded for this one. • Los Angeles, California • Ilford SPX 400 • • • • #ballonawetlands #playadelrey #losangeles #greenspace #ecological #film #aboxofgrain #urbannature #urbanpark #shootfilm (at Ballona Creek Bike Path) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRHqlOHJ0nX/?utm_medium=tumblr
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I love the nimby complaints about the motor homes parked in the vicinity. Homeless encampment? Nope. Folks in motor homes who can’t park elsewhere in LA are being scapegoated by apartment dwellers who live on top of one of Southern California’s last wetlands that was filled and paved. These selfish little assholes aren’t doing shit to help people, aren’t concerned with the safety of members of the public using a public space, they’re just pissy because the motor homes are too close to their Whole Foods. If that fire jumped Lincoln and burnt out Playa Vista, it’d be ecological justice and karma.
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The Ballona Wetlands The Ballona Freshwater Marsh lands were originally high tidal marsh that were later cultivated for lima beans and celery. (Slide to see photo of Ballona Marsh back in 1968 with views of the Howard Hughes airport landing strip) {*black and white photo from the Los Angeles Public Library) Built to Treat Rainfall Runoff from Playa Vista, the Marsh and Riparian Corridor Are One of L.A.'s Best Birdwatching Spots. Feathered friends from near and far flock to the Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve during the winter months to rest, feed and prepare for the coming spring nesting season. One of their favorite spots is this very place. . . . . . #Travel #lifestyle #empoweryourselfthroughtravel #beinspired #explore #discover #noerosetravels #tahitianinla #livinglifethroughrosecoloredlenses #itsawanderfullife #ballonawetlands #playavista #playadelrey #naturetrails #losangeles #californialove #marshes #happytuesday (at Ballona Wetlands) https://www.instagram.com/p/CI0xdsBFP1K/?igshid=99kvtclx21ul
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Two #mclaren #frolicking in #playavista love the #color check them out. #coolcars me I like to #shoot at #targets (at Ballona Creek Trail - Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve Access) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2unNuUAT13/?igshid=8nr932qa4swt
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#nature video#wetlands#white pelican#pelicaniformes#american coot#fulica#aquatic birds#birds#ballona wetlands ecological reserve#marina del rey#video
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☺️Ballona Wetlands in Playa Del Rey 🙃 (at Ballona Creek Trail - Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve Access) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1Kox-2ACgu/?igshid=1rgxz3ap1g0zv
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[obligatory scenery shot to let everyone know I'm back in Los Angeles] (at Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve)
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Playa del Rey, Los Angeles: Civic Pride Soars in This Tiny Beach Community
John and Sue Campbell loved their home in Bel Air, with its privacy, swimming pool and sweeping views. But in December 2017, as the Skirball Fire raced through Bel Air and the slopes of the Sepulveda Pass, scorching hundreds of acres and sending residents fleeing, their quiet cul-de-sac with only one way in and out began to feel dangerous.
Then came 2018, and with it the Woolsey Fire, which ripped through the canyons of Los Angeles and broke records for destruction in California. Mr. Campbell, 66, and Ms. Campbell, 62, decided they’d had enough.
“The fires just kept raging,” said Mr. Campbell, who grew up in Britain and is the founder of Palawan Productions, a music production company. “The helicopters would fly so close that we could make out the face of the pilot. We would wake up and our entire place would be covered in soot. It was very frightening.”
They sold their three-bedroom, three-bath home for just over $2 million and headed to Marina del Rey, where they keep a boat docked, living in a temporary apartment at the Marina Bay Club while they searched for a new home. They knew little about Playa del Rey, the tiny, funky beach community wedged between Marina del Rey, El Segundo and Los Angeles International Airport. But much like the new home they eventually moved into, the neighborhood, they realized, was well worth a second look.
In April they paid $1.5 million there for a new home with three bedrooms, 27-foot ceilings and windows offering sweeping views of the Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve and its egrets and blue herons.
“This is a friendly, tight-knit community where shops and the beach are all within walking distance,” said Mr. Campbell. “In our old home we would sit on our porch and look at the view and think it was wonderful, but we wouldn’t get up and do anything.”
The Ballona Wetlands also lured Wesley Bullock and Jhoanna Pugrad to Playa del Rey.
Mr. Bullock, 34, and Ms. Pugrad, 29, were renting in Marina del Rey when they began their house hunt. They only discovered Playa del Rey because of their regular bike rides down the seven-mile Ballona Creek Bike Path, which separates the two neighborhoods.
“All of Los Angeles’s beach communities are so congested and they’re surrounded by tourists,” said Ms. Pugrad, an accounting manager for Snap Inc., the company that developed Snapchat. “Playa del Rey has a huge beach that felt untouched. It shot to the top of our list.”
The couple landed in a 1,300-square-foot townhouse with two bedrooms, two baths and a bonus room, with access to a gym, pool and tennis courts. Their double-pane windows block out the noise from LAX, and on the weekends, they say, they love staying local.
“My job can be stressful,” said Mr. Bullock, a contracts manager for a number of tech companies. “Living in the neighborhood, I’ve noticed a difference in terms of staying grounded.”
Mr. Bullock and Ms. Pugrad have been dating for seven years. Both are well acquainted with the adjacent community of Playa Vista, where planned live-work-play communities and campuses for Google, Verizon and YouTube have sprouted up in two decades of frenzied development. Playa del Rey, Mr. Bullock said, is the antithesis of all that.
“The reasons we moved to Playa del Rey are the same reasons we would never want to move into a tech-impacted community like Playa Vista,” he said. “We share the same admiration for Playa del Rey as the people who have lived here for many years. We definitely don’t want to change it.”
Prince O’Whales, a quintessential Southern California dive bar, is a favorite among locals in Playa del Rey.Credit…Adam Amengual for The New York Times
What You’ll Find
In August 2018, the Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to block the construction of the Legado 138 project, a mixed-use complex comprising 72 apartment units and 7,500 square feet of commercial space along Culver Boulevard. It was a huge win for local advocates, who had spent months campaigning against the proposal, arguing it would trigger a development rush and imperil the culture of Playa del Rey.
“When you look at Playa del Rey, you know you are not in Marina del Rey, Venice or Manhattan Beach,” the advocates wrote in a change.org petition that collected 4,390 signatures. “Playa del Rey is the last true small beach community left in Los Angeles.”
The language of that petition, entitled “Tell Legado to Fit In or Go Home,” offers a glimpse of the fierce sense of protectiveness many longtime residents feel over the community. There is no Starbucks in Playa del Rey, no upscale chain restaurants and no high-rise buildings.
Buildings, in fact, are capped at 37 feet or three stories, which gives the area the feel of a small village — albeit one with dive bars and a constant low roar from airplanes taking off and landing at LAX.
Around Culver Boulevard, a handful of new businesses, including Playa Provisions (from “Top Chef” winner Brooke Williamson) and the wine bar Bacari PDR share real estate with old standbys like the bar Prince O’Whales and the hamburger joint The Shack.
8324 DELGANY AVENUE | A four-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bath house, built in 1929 on 0.16 acres, listed at $2.75 million. 855-789-0891Credit…Adam Amengual for The New York Times
What You’ll Pay
Despite residents’ efforts to fight gentrification, Playa del Rey isn’t immune to the tech boom in its backyard. But while prices have been creeping upward, the median home price in the community is still much lower than in nearby beach towns like Venice and Santa Monica.
In 2017, there were 276 single-family homes and condos on the market in Playa del Rey, at a median sales price of $697,500, according to Miller Samuel Real Estate Appraisers and Consultants. In 2018, there were 239 homes on the market, at a median sales price of $762,000. In 2019, there were 227 homes on the market, at a median sales price of $777,000.
Renters should expect to pay about $2,200 a month for a one-bedroom apartment and $4,000 to $5,000 for a three-bedroom.
330 REES STREET | A three-bedroom, two-bath house, built in 1953 on 0.12 acres, listed at $1.599 million. 424-280-7400Credit…Adam Amengual for The New York Times
The Vibe
“Everybody is so intertwined here,” said Tom Corte, 70, a realtor with ERA Real Estate who has lived in the area since 1953. “There’s a sense of identity.”
Mara Epstein-Saidiner, 68, says that sense of belonging became so important to her and her husband, Grant Saidiner, 65, that when a family health crisis and bankruptcy forced them to sell their three-bedroom home two years ago, she insisted on staying in Playa.
“I said no matter what happens, we’re staying in the neighborhood,” said Ms. Epstein-Saidiner, who grew up in New York City and is the director of sales and marketing for Zalo USA, which makes high-end adult products.
8340 MANITOBA STREET, NO. 2 | A one-bedroom, one-bath condo, built in 1969, listed at $525,000. 310-766-1863Credit…Adam Amengual for The New York Times
The couple bought their home in 1999 for $340,000. They sold it for just over $1 million, and now rent a townhouse nearby with a rooftop garden.
Over the decades, Ms. Epstein-Saidiner became involved in Playa del Rey’s protests against development, which have run the gamut from protecting the wetlands and beach dunes to fending off large-scale developers. “They don’t like change here, they don’t want a Starbucks in our little town, and they’ll prevent things like that,” she said. “It’s a little time capsule of a place and it’s a very close-knit community.”
The Schools
Students in Playa del Rey are served by the Los Angeles Unified School District. Nearby elementary schools include Paseo Del Rey Elementary School (a science magnet school), Loyola Village Elementary (a fine and performing-arts magnet school) and Playa Vista Elementary.
During the 2018-19 school year, 44 percent of third-graders at Paseo Del Rey, 53 percent of third-graders at Loyola, and 81 percent of third-graders at Playa Vista met benchmarks for English language arts on the California Smarter Balanced Assessment test, compared with 43 percent districtwide and 49 percent across California.
During the same year, 23 percent of third-graders at Paseo Del Rey, 55 percent of third-graders at Loyola, and 81 percent of third-graders at Playa Vista met benchmarks in math, compared with 44 percent across the district and 50 percent across California. (According to the California Department of Education, students with scores at or above benchmark levels on these tests are ready for higher-level coursework.)
Most high schoolers attend Westchester Enriched Sciences Magnets, where during the 2017-18 school year, 60 percent of students taking the SAT exam met benchmarks for English, compared to 56 percent districtwide and 71 percent statewide; 24 percent met benchmarks for math, compared with 31 percent districtwide and 51 percent statewide. (For the SATS, the College Board defines students as “college ready”when their test scores meet a benchmark of 480 in English and 530 in math.)
The Commute
The eight-minute drive from Playa del Rey to Playa Vista can take up to 20 minutes in traffic. Downtown Los Angeles is about 30 minutes away, and the drive to LAX is about 10 minutes.
The History
In the 1870s, developers attempted to dredge the Santa Monica Harbor in what is now Playa del Rey. Its first land development, built in 1921, was called Palisades del Rey; the filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille was among its homeowners. After decades of building, the city of Los Angeles seized many of the homes in the city’s southern portion to make way for an expansion of LAX.
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CDFW Releases Final Environmental Impact Report for Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve #CaliforninaFishing http://jaxbch.net/var/www/jaxbch.net/public_html/cli/news/california-fishing/item/17298-cdfw-releases-final-environmental-impact-report-for-ballona-wetlands-ecological-reserve
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Ospreys sure are beautiful. #osprey #raptor #birds #birdstagram #birdsofinstagram #birdphotography #birding #nature #naturelover #wildlife #urbanwildlife #wildlifephotography #raptorsofinstagram #birdsofprey #beautiful #fierce #ballonacreek #ballonacreekbikepath #ballonawetlands #cameraphonethrubinoculars #goodmorning (at Ballona Creek Trail - Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve Access) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7EUKsoBCul/?igshid=188opeo408efy
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Goodbye December 8, 2017... Day 1179 of not missing a sunset! #nevermissasunset #sunset #palmtrees #beautifulsky #nature #ballonawetlands #beautiful #december #sunsetlovers #abc7eyewitness #ig_sunsets #1179 #silhouette #dedicated #sky #disciplined #everyday #clouds #inspiration #playadelrey #moodygrams #peaceful #commitment #usapefit (at Ballona Wetlands State Ecological Reserve)
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Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve dangerous to visitors
Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve dangerous to visitors
This Ecological Reserve near Marina Del Rey, CA, has deteriorated over the years to a wild place that can be dangerous to the health and safety of visitors.
Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve, just south of the popular small craft harbor of Marina Del Rey and west of Culver City with its Sony studios, used to be an important stop and resting place for migrating waterfowl. The demise of the…
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