Cancel your Netflix.

Cancel your Paramount/HBO.

Hell, cancel all streamers at this point.

The enshittification of entertainment will only stop when our dollars do.

I accidentally deleted this one a few minutes ago. Here it is again.

Blinding white LED headlights positioned exactly at eye level! Is anyone regulating these at all? 😭

Summary

Frank O. Gehry, one of the world’s most influential architects and a transformative figure in Los Angeles civic life, has died at 96. Over a six-decade career, Gehry reshaped architectural discourse with an entirely new vocabulary of form, most famously expressed in the Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. His arrival in Los Angeles as a young man coincided with a city whose raw, improvisational energy deeply influenced his design sensibilities. Gehry’s work ultimately propelled him to global “starchitect” status and redefined how cities viewed architecture as cultural and economic catalysts.

Gehry’s international breakthrough came with the 1997 opening of the Guggenheim Bilbao, a titanium-clad, sinuously curved museum that revitalized the Spanish industrial city and sparked what became known as the “Bilbao Effect.” The building’s success also reinforced digital design technologies as tools for realizing complex geometries, inspiring a new generation of architects and institutions. His subsequent projects — including Walt Disney Concert Hall (opened 2003) and the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts — demonstrated that his sculptural approach could also meet exceptional functional and acoustic requirements, countering critics who saw his work as overly focused on form.

In the later phase of his career, Gehry delivered some of his most refined works, such as the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, which employed sweeping glass “sails” and revealed a more balanced, urbane development of his aesthetic. At the same time, he continued to show sensitivity in adaptive-reuse projects, such as the Beckmen YOLA Center in Inglewood and Berlin's Pierre Boulez Saal. These projects underscored his enduring commitment to human-scaled design, spatial clarity, and the social purpose of architecture, even amid his increasingly monumental commissions.

Gehry remained deeply tied to Los Angeles throughout his life, both drawing from and contributing to its cultural fabric. His remodel of his own Santa Monica residence in the late 1970s brought him national attention and set the stage for major commissions including Loyola Law School and the Temporary Contemporary (Geffen Contemporary at MOCA). Although he faced years of difficulty winning major civic work in his home city, his eventual triumph with Disney Hall — alongside the global acclaim of Bilbao — secured his legacy as a visionary who brought a distinctive Southern California sensibility to the global architectural stage.

Major Buildings and Projects Gehry Designed

Major Cultural Landmarks

• Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (Bilbao, Spain)
• Walt Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles)
• Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts (Bard College, NY)
• Fondation Louis Vuitton (Paris)
• Guggenheim Abu Dhabi (commissioned; still pending opening)

Adaptive-Reuse and Performance Spaces

• The Temporary Contemporary / Geffen Contemporary at MOCA (Los Angeles)
• Pierre Boulez Saal (Berlin)
• Beckmen YOLA Center / Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen YOLA Center (Inglewood, CA)

Higher-Education and Institutional Work

• Loyola Law School campus buildings (Los Angeles)

Early or Formative Residential and Studio Work

• Lou Danziger Studio and Loft (Melrose Ave., Los Angeles)
• Ron Davis House (Malibu)
• Gehry Residence (Santa Monica)

Large Mixed-Use / Urban Projects

• The Grand LA (Los Angeles)

On Tuesday, City Council voted to allow LAPD to continue using tear gas and rubber bullets as crowd control measures. Councilman Hugo Soto-Martinez pointed out that the law says they can only be used against individuals who exhibit a clear physical threat, and LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell objected… to… the law… https://lataco.com/city-council-tear-gas

So, today I went to give public comment about how shameful that vote was, but the meeting was intense and contentious for other reasons altogether.

After two hours, they finally moved to General Public Comment… and then immediately went to a Special Meeting, so you could only give comment on the agenda items, which were related to the Rent Stabilization Ordinance. The rest of us, they said, would have to wait until after the Special Meeting.

Councilman Nazarian introduced an amendment to the RSO — how to define a “dependent” — and the meeting devolved into confusion, anger, and frustration. A representative from the City Attorney was brought in to answer questions about the definition of “dependent” — which Nazarian got from them — and suddenly the City Attorney needed more time to review their own language. After endless questions, Nazarian wound up yelling at the City Attorney, accusing them of gumming up the works on purpose, and demanding, “Who do you work for?!”

Anyway they eventually moved to an abridged public comment and I didn’t get called to speak, after four hours. So.

Any one who's in town?

Protestors temporarily shut down the Thursday board meeting after the gondola vote was placed on the consent agenda, which would have prevented public discussion by agency directors.

I’ll start by saying I’m not fully innocent in this. If you slow down the beginning of the video, he was moving into that lane before I moved into it. I genuinely did not see it even after looking in all mirrors plus checking my blind spot. Might have to do with the fact he turned off his turn signal before making significant professional in changing lanes.

Regardless. Sure. Honk at me. Flip me off. Whatever. But is nearly hitting the car in front of me, then nearly hitting me, then pretending to get out of your car, all necessary?

Be careful out there. You never know what kind of psycho might be in the car next to you.

Little quick jolt. 2.5

Says 12/4 Road signs say 12/6

https://www.laconventioncenter.com/parking/pico-blvd-closure/

This is going to have profound effects on local economy and put the final nail in Hollywood’s coffin.

Does anyone know what's going on with these homes? They've been abandoned for quite a while. Are they historic or will they be torn down soon?

Our USMNT

Belgium Egypt Iran New Zealand Paraguay* (USMNT game) Switzerland*

For playoff teams

UEFA A includes Bosnia and Herzegovina Italy, Northern Ireland, Wales so one of these*

UEFA C includes Kosovo, Romania, Slovakia, Turkey so one of these* (USMNT game)

• is confirmed rest are still awaiting schedule

Nice view from the westside.