My name is Dani and this is my blog.
[blog] -noun. A web site containing the writer's or group of writers' own experiences, observations, opinions, etc.
This summer-maybe longer-blog will be to 1. share with all those close to me a California summer and 2. help in my search for a thesis in design. I've come to Los Angeles to intern for Hirsch Bender and Associates [http://www.hbadesign.com/] and after a week in this city, I've realized there is maybe more to pursue. More to pursue than the design of five star hotels; more to pursue in finding the end, the ultimate level of seeking of knowledge, opinion, explanation, thesis. This summer-maybe longer-blog will document my pursuit.
My sweet dad always drives me to the Nashville airport when I depart for varying adventures. My parents are so supportive and for that I'm forever thankful.
VINTAGE BAGGAGE] is cool. Vintage baggage claim, not so much..
LAX was not the airport I expected. I'm sure its ongoing makeover will produce a..not so vintage look. As for LA, your vintage vibe of old school rock and roll suites you [and me] well.
my neighborhood: street hip
Bed Bath & Beyond
I freaked when I saw these shopping cart escalators.
All Saints Co. London
Megan Zolnier: you first spotted this in its original city.
I too, absolutely love.
Industrial mod vintage
process & result
a shaun white kind of dress
Santa Monica, CA
Hey breezy, I like yo facade.
Hillstone: Arty bookstore
Santa Monica Pier
It's culture day in California.
CHINA CHINA CHINA
moleskin sketch
Laugh Factory
"Opening its doors in 1979, the World Famous Laugh Factory has been recognized as "the #1 comedy club in the country" by such high-profile media as USA Today."
Film set, downtown LA
Frank GehryWalt Disney Music Hall, 2003
"It has been said as a barge at full sail, a homage to the billowing skirts of Marilyn Monroe, a cubist masterpiece, and a physical manifestation of a certain cartoon mouse's strokes with his magic wand."
-Wallpaper City Guide [any designers essential Pocket Book]
friends. & gehry.
Jackson Polluck. MoCA, 2011.
"When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of 'get acquainted' period that I see what I have been about. I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well."
This philosophy shall be related to my pursuit. To find a substance from that which is truly pure, your intuition.
Roy Lichtenstein
Of what are you thinking?
Electric Feel.
A special person played this for me before I came to Cali. ;)
