Downtown LA is pretty amazing, lots of great architecture, very different from the rest of LA. It’s great to walk around and take photos during the day, but it’s very unsafe when the night falls.
It turns out LA have a bunch of sister cities, none of them are Swedish though.
Los Angeles City Hall
Little Tokyo is part of downtown, it’s pretty small, but great, cheap food and a bunch of interesting stores.
Sushi for lunch, and this is when my camera decided to stop working, it wouldnt read the memory card. It happens from time to time and I usually just take the card out and plug it back in for it to start reading again, but today it just refused to co-operate. I tried everything that came to my mind; taking the memory card out, taking the battery out, try another memory card… nothing worked and I was bummed out. I think I’m gonna have to start saving up for a new camera.Since I was so bummed out my friend let me borrow her camera for a while, as she didnt really want to take photos anyway, she just wanted to hang out and check out the buildings.
We had planned to check out Chinatown as well, but stumbled upon MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art. I read about this in design history class and should know more about it, but what I remember on top of my head is that it’s 1930 something, De Stijl movement, it’s Dutch and it’s cool.
Jackson Pollock, 1940 something, American, alcoholic and I don’t get it – anyone could do this! The ones who knows think this is awesome though for some reason. I just keep on thinking of Big Lebowski when I see Pollocks paintings.