"We create these narratives of new worlds and still have not figured out how to resolve them."

Nov. 21, 2014 | My friend’s mom’s scrapbook paper.

Notes to Self are longer journal entries from Seven Yrs Ago. I was 21 late 2014.

“Destroying New York is a tragedy; destroying Los Angeles is a farce.” —Amy Murphy

Apocalypse by Amy

• Attempt to blame nature or God, but us people destroy it with our tech and poor planning

• Events that happen at beginning in 1st 5 min. What do we do now?

• Young protagonists, children of authority, women

  • Women + people of color often aligned with undervalued, neglected nature. Find kinship, solace

• “Need to be more sensitive stewards of nature” as common msg of film

  • The High Line — return of the repressed. Other examples??

  • Little parks around LA downtown multiplying flora + fauna

  • Relationships of poverty

  • S. Central farm, park, industrial zoning

    • “The right to endure”

    • Representational gov’t failing to properly make the dialogue betw. people + them

    • Architects have chance to remake worlds after them

We create these narratives of new worlds and still have not figured out how to resolve them.

Ed. Dimendberg

“Architecture and engineering is the best way to be an optimist”

—fundamentally optimistic to make something new and think it’s going to make something new and the world better

movie = time-based medium vs. photography

Diff. betw. LA + other places — “can get an understanding of NY by being in Times Square or Central Park; Paris in a café, but you need to drive in a car to get LA.”

For commentary seven years later, go here.