Illustration from Experiment #1 Back to the Future, Long Beach City Hall. Currently I'm slowly posting all Experiments created during Nagahama installation.
Frank Bros. 2400 Long Beach Blvd, Long Beach, CA Iconic furniture store in Long Beach, California. A store that changed L.A.'s ways | August 15, 2009 | Martha Groves | Los Angeles Times Added 2/19/16 Added 2/19/16 Carlos Diniz - Entrance Presentation, Frank Brothers Furniture, Long Beach, CA This is an Architectural Rendering of Frank Brothers Furniture in Long Beach, CA by architect Edward Killingsworth, CDA #1283. 1963 Frank Brothers Furniture and Moreddi of Long Beach, CA introduced Scandinavian furniture and modern + good design to the masses long before DWR, Ikea, or Target. They were located at 2400 American Avenue by 1961. Sadly the building was razed during the 1992 Riots. "Frank Bros. was the store that John Entenza, editor of Arts & Architecture magazine , enlisted to furnish the Case Study Houses, launched by the magazine toward the end of World War II... Frank Bros. appeale...
http://salt.unc.edu/T-RACES/mosaic.html (dead link 2/19/2016) Documenting neighborhoods of color since the 1930's. Wiki : Redlining is the practice of denying, or increasing the cost of services such as banking , insurance , access to jobs , [2] access to health care, [3] or even supermarkets [4] to residents in certain, often racially determined, [5] areas. The term "redlining" was coined in the late 1960s by John McKnight, a Northwestern University sociologist and community activist. [6] It describes the practice of marking a red line on a map to delineate the area where banks would not invest; later the term was applied to discrimination against a particular group of people (usually by race or sex ) no matter the geography. During the heyday of redlining, the areas most frequently discriminated against were black inner city neighborhoods. For example, in ...
Street view of TempSpace #1 Yesterday a proposal was submitted for the Long Beach Mobile Exhibits | Storefront Public Art program. This fantastic opportunity offered by the Arts Council for Long Beach and Long Beach Redevelopment Agency , fills vacant downtown storefronts with by art pieces until the space is officially leased. This is another reason we love this City! The workstation desks and shared utility wall. When awarded the project, the collaboration between Voula and Emily will continue. Very soon you will begin to see pop-up temporary work spaces appearing throughout downtown. The idea is to design & build kit-of-parts furniture pieces that are made with off-the-shelf materials. Then have creative individuals occupy and use the space as a performance piece; revealing the person behind the work. The current proposal provides a shared utility wall , workstation desks , and lighting . Variables that will alter the furniture are...