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Questions With A Visitor: Chris Forsberg

Questions With A Visitor:  Chris Forsberg

As much as I love seeing art exhibits, sometimes I’m like, why am I not in a Nissan 370Z hurtling sideways through a controlled slide at 100mph? Last week I couldn’t have told you where the nearest racetrack was in Los Angeles. Today I’m here to tell you that race cars are extremely difficult to get out of and that Chris Forsberg is an amazing guy. I was fortunate to have the opportunity to meet and interview the self-taught, Formula Drift championship driver. He handled my lack of knowledge about the sport with a smile and took me out for a little drifting, pro-style.

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The Edge Effect

The Edge Effect

Daniel Kulka is a Brooklyn based multi-discipline artist. He was out West earlier this year spending time at Joshua Tree National Park as he was awarded an artist’s residency by the United States National Park Service. Joshua Tree and its beautiful and bizarre features had a great influence on his work and inspired a project. The Edge Effect is the result of his time spent there, a photo project dedicated to reflecting on the desert’s many beauties.

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Quik

Quik

Somehow I missed the skateboarding trend as a teenager. Any other adult male or female I know can pick up a skateboard in casual company and try to ride it and maybe even do an ollie or two. Perhaps Tony Hawk’s grasp on culture in the early nineties into the early 2000s is to blame for this–who knows! I’ve always had a fear of skateboards as I’ve never been able to effectively (and safely) ride them. I’m fascinated by them and by people who’ve mastered this means of locomotion because it scares the shit out of me. Skateboarding site The Berrics and Quiksilver teamed up to make a little Los Angeles skateboarding video that has Austyn Gillette travelling super quickly across the city in a palm sweat inducing dash across neighborhood sidewalks and busy streets, all caught from a moving car.

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Unafraid To Create: An Interview With Jill Greenberg, Part Two

Unafraid To Create An Interview With Jill Greenberg, Part Two

You can find Part One of our interview with photographer Jill Greenberg here.

Southern California has also had an influence on Jill Greenberg’s creatively, too. If you look at her work over the past decade, you see a shift from her trademark high gloss photos to some more naturally lit photos that speak to our surroundings. Los Angeles has helped Jill evolve.

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Lisa Hanawalt And My Dirty Dumb Eyes

Writer and cartoonist and generally funny person Lisa Hanawalt will be at Skylight Books on June 3 to read and sign her book My Dirty Dumb Eyes. The book sounds fabulous and hysterical so you should all try to see this.

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Bike Night Photos

The Hammer recently had one of their Bike Nights and they took portraits of people and their bikes. They’re really well done! You’ll also probably see some familiar faces, too.

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Big rig carrying fruit crashes on 210 Freeway, creates jam

In one of the funniest LA headlines and news stories, apparently a big rig with fruit crashed on the 210 and “created a jam.” We’re not sure if there were any injuries to people but 35K pounds of fruit got a little banged up.

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Six Types Of Transplants Ruining LA

Although this article is a *little* drastic, LA Weekly threw their hate in the “Stop fucking with LA!”/#LAHaters conversation with a piece that mapped the six types of Angelenos who are ruining the city. They’re a little mean–but they aren’t entirely wrong.

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Help VIA!

Newcomers VIA are hoping to make some printed items soon. What do they need to do that? Monday! Help them out: they only need a little over $2K and they almost have that money, too. You can catch a video they did for promotion after the jump!

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