#los Angeles

[heckyeahponyscans]

"Willy’s Chocolate Experience LA"— organized by a collective of local artists unaffiliated with those behind the Glasgow event — had a similar vibe. This time, however, attendees knew what they were signing up for. Held in a worn-down warehouse embellished with a few candy cane props, the one-night only pop-up event stayed true to the underwhelming decor of the Glasgow event, complete with artificial intelligence-generated art. Attendees were even offered two complimentary jellybeans, just like in Glasgow. Paterson, who went viral after a photo of her looking miserable at the Glasgow experience became a meme format, said she was excited to travel to Los Angeles to play the iconic knock-off Oompa Loompa role once again. Jacob Alpharad, 28, was among the attendees who showed up to see Paterson. “I don’t think there’s any celebrity I could meet that would impress my friends more than her specifically,” Alpharad said. “I was just happy to be born at the same time as [the Glasgow event]. It sounds like a skit right out of a sitcom.”

This is incredible. I love this. This is like if someone made a crappy DashCon II complete with ballpit which btw we should do, there's still time.

#Willy Wonka #Willy's Chocolate Experience #Los Angeles #Glasgow

[hack-saw2004]

HAPPENING NOW: zionists planned and are currently setting up for/having a huge counter protest at the ucla gaza solidarity encampment. our comrades have now taken over the area where the counter protest is set up!

#free palestine #end aid to israel #current events #palestine genocide #campus protests #let gaza live #free west bank #save palestine #bds movement #end the genocide #end the occupation #ucla #university of california la #ucla divest coalition #students for justice in palestine #gaza solidarity encampment #los angeles #israel is a terrorist state #boycott divest sanction #from the river to the sea #free palestine in our lifetime #the student intifada #no one is free until we are all free

[yodaprod]

#hollywood #los angeles #la #california #1970s #70s #70's

[arc-hus]

Moore House Renovation, Los Angeles - Woods + Dangaran

#Woods + Dangaran #architecture #design #modern architecture #interiors #minimal #house #house design #modernist #renovation #old and new #timeless #beautiful homes #luxury #swimming pool #los angeles #view #glass #flat roof #living room

[away-ready-especially]

#spiderman 2099 #merthur #pay me money #ana de armas #txt smut #360 video #gif #sweater #hilde osland #adult work #los angeles

[timetravelingcourtney]

Here’s Addy with her new accessories that I picked up at AG Place LA.

This Addy was in the large PC Molly lot I brought home a few weeks ago. I fell in love as sometimes happens and decided I had to keep her.

She had her boots but no meet dress. I remembered I had this lovely dress someone made with great care. Kirsten had an extra apron and kindly passed it along.

I was very excited to set up her Sweet Dreams set which I’ve been holding onto for years!

I rarely come across Addy items on my adventures so I’m cobbling things together until either I get lucky or AG expands their retired doll lines. 🤞🏻

#american girl #pleasant company #addy walker #sweet dreams #Acessories #AGplace #Los Angeles #historical dolls

[archiveofaffinities]

John Humble, Arm & Hammer, Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, 2013

#art #design #photography #Los Angeles #LA #California #signs #sign #billboard #John Humble #Arm & Hammer #Pico Boulevard

[rocknrollflames]

Do you think this is Vicky? Spraying Axl's hair?

gif credit to doubletalkinjives

Yeah. It's got to be Vicky. She looks great! And of course so does Axl. In my opinion, the coolest he ever looked. Vicky did a great job on your hair, Ax. She knew what she was doing. I think she did a great job getting you guys noticed too. Sexy, Axl. Very sexy. Hot, Vicky. Very hot.

#gnr #axl gnr #vicky hamilton #axl rose #axl rose fans #guns n roses #guns n' roses #slash #izzy stradlin #steven adler #duff mckagan #l.a. street scene festival 1986 #rock n roll history #rock n roll music #rock #rock music #glam rock #classic rock #hard rock #rock n roll hall of fame #rock and roll #glam #glam punk #american rock #los angeles #l.a. rock #american bands #sexxxy axxxl

[lovelyy-moonlight]

Elizabeth Olsen and Robbie Arnett in Los Angeles yesterday.

#elizabeth olsen #lizzie olsen #robbie arnett #los angeles #2024 #celebrity #celebrities

[yalnizligamahkumbirkiz]

🫠

#stiles stilinski #dylan o'brien #teen wolf movie #teen wolf #labirent #peter hale #derek hale #scott mccall #allison argent #lydia martin #delena #3391kilometre #sıfırkilometre #izmir aksoy #karantina #ömer ege zorlu #spotify #egeninincisi #culpa mia #onur zorlu #zeynep akay #iki yabancı #america #los angeles #paris france #tyler hoechlin #artists on tumblr #selena gomez #harry potter #beni neden sevmedin

[frenchcurious]

Le Duplex O'Neill, conçu par Rodney Walker en 1953 pour Virginia O'Neill dans le quartier de Silver Lake à Los Angeles. Photo David Fitzgerald. - source MCM Daily.

#rodney walker #los angeles #californie #usa

[ososperezosos]

April 8, 2024.

#los angeles

[nhlovesadri3]

Adriana Lima at the vsfs 2006, Winter Wonderland of Glacial Goddesses segment, Kodak Theatre, Los Angeles, 11/11/06.

#Adriana Lima #vsfs 2006 #vs #fashion show #runway #winter wonderland of glacial goddesses #goddess #angel #gorgeous #2006 #los angeles

[reasonsforhope]

As relentless rains pounded LA, the city’s “sponge” infrastructure helped gather 8.6 billion gallons of water—enough to sustain over 100,000 households for a year.

Earlier this month, the future fell on Los Angeles. A long band of moisture in the sky, known as an atmospheric river, dumped 9 inches of rain on the city over three days—over half of what the city typically gets in a year. It’s the kind of extreme rainfall that’ll get ever more extreme as the planet warms.

The city’s water managers, though, were ready and waiting. Like other urban areas around the world, in recent years LA has been transforming into a “sponge city,” replacing impermeable surfaces, like concrete, with permeable ones, like dirt and plants. It has also built out “spreading grounds,” where water accumulates and soaks into the earth.

With traditional dams and all that newfangled spongy infrastructure, between February 4 and 7 the metropolis captured 8.6 billion gallons of stormwater, enough to provide water to 106,000 households for a year. For the rainy season in total, LA has accumulated 14.7 billion gallons.

Long reliant on snowmelt and river water piped in from afar, LA is on a quest to produce as much water as it can locally. “There's going to be a lot more rain and a lot less snow, which is going to alter the way we capture snowmelt and the aqueduct water,” says Art Castro, manager of watershed management at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. “Dams and spreading grounds are the workhorses of local stormwater capture for either flood protection or water supply.”

Centuries of urban-planning dogma dictates using gutters, sewers, and other infrastructure to funnel rainwater out of a metropolis as quickly as possible to prevent flooding. Given the increasingly catastrophic urban flooding seen around the world, though, that clearly isn’t working anymore, so now planners are finding clever ways to capture stormwater, treating it as an asset instead of a liability. “The problem of urban hydrology is caused by a thousand small cuts,” says Michael Kiparsky, director of the Wheeler Water Institute at UC Berkeley. “No one driveway or roof in and of itself causes massive alteration of the hydrologic cycle. But combine millions of them in one area and it does. Maybe we can solve that problem with a thousand Band-Aids.”

Or in this case, sponges. The trick to making a city more absorbent is to add more gardens and other green spaces that allow water to percolate into underlying aquifers—porous subterranean materials that can hold water—which a city can then draw from in times of need. Engineers are also greening up medians and roadside areas to soak up the water that’d normally rush off streets, into sewers, and eventually out to sea...

To exploit all that free water falling from the sky, the LADWP has carved out big patches of brown in the concrete jungle. Stormwater is piped into these spreading grounds and accumulates in dirt basins. That allows it to slowly soak into the underlying aquifer, which acts as a sort of natural underground tank that can hold 28 billion gallons of water.

During a storm, the city is also gathering water in dams, some of which it diverts into the spreading grounds. “After the storm comes by, and it's a bright sunny day, you’ll still see water being released into a channel and diverted into the spreading grounds,” says Castro. That way, water moves from a reservoir where it’s exposed to sunlight and evaporation, into an aquifer where it’s banked safely underground.

On a smaller scale, LADWP has been experimenting with turning parks into mini spreading grounds, diverting stormwater there to soak into subterranean cisterns or chambers. It’s also deploying green spaces along roadways, which have the additional benefit of mitigating flooding in a neighborhood: The less concrete and the more dirt and plants, the more the built environment can soak up stormwater like the actual environment naturally does.

As an added benefit, deploying more of these green spaces, along with urban gardens, improves the mental health of residents. Plants here also “sweat,” cooling the area and beating back the urban heat island effect—the tendency for concrete to absorb solar energy and slowly release it at night. By reducing summer temperatures, you improve the physical health of residents. “The more trees, the more shade, the less heat island effect,” says Castro. “Sometimes when it’s 90 degrees in the middle of summer, it could get up to 110 underneath a bus stop.”

LA’s far from alone in going spongy. Pittsburgh is also deploying more rain gardens, and where they absolutely must have a hard surface—sidewalks, parking lots, etc.—they’re using special concrete bricks that allow water to seep through. And a growing number of municipalities are scrutinizing properties and charging owners fees if they have excessive impermeable surfaces like pavement, thus incentivizing the switch to permeable surfaces like plots of native plants or urban gardens for producing more food locally.

So the old way of stormwater management isn’t just increasingly dangerous and ineffective as the planet warms and storms get more intense—it stands in the way of a more beautiful, less sweltering, more sustainable urban landscape. LA, of all places, is showing the world there’s a better way.

-via Wired, February 19, 2024

#california #los angeles #water #rainfall #extreme weather #rain #atmospheric science #meteorology #infrastructure #green infrastructure #climate change #climate action #climate resilient #climate emergency #urban #urban landscape #flooding #flood warning #natural disasters #environmental news #climate news #good news #hope #solarpunk #hopepunk #ecopunk #sustainability #urban planning #city planning #urbanism

[allhailthe70shousewife]

Los Angeles!!! Pay attention!!!🚨🚨🚨Do your research. VOTE TRUE BLUE. Remember Rick Caruso? We didn’t let him get away with it. Don’t let anybody else.

#vote TRUE DEMOCRAT in LA #los angeles #vote

[amalgamasreal]

So Universal Pictures may have just intentionally over-pruned all of the city owned trees in front of their LA corporate office in an effort to fuck with the WGA/SAG-AFTRA picketers during what is predicted to be the hottest week of the year so far:

And the LA City Controller is looking into it:

Once again it looks like it's time for:

#wga #wga strike #sag aftra #sag aftra strike #wga strong #wga solidarity #universal pictures #tree law #legal stuff #la city #los angeles #fafo? boy I hope so