Something AMAZING is brewin'!

Well some great things are coming from around the corner. 

First, I surpassed 100 views!




Damn right! Thank you so much for reading what I wrote, it really means a lot.

So since I made that promise that I would do a lookbook, I be spending my time working on that! I think the lookbook will be up in a couple of days.





Second, I am working on a literary magazine! The magazine will incorporate specific themes but probably be connected towards Los Angeles. I will talk about it later and give more information on how you can order it yourself. 




So there are a lot of fun things coming from a round the corner. Stay tuned and keep reading. Also THANK YOU so much for everything you've done! :)

Lookbook for 100

I know it's nothing but I'm near to 100 views!

I think when I get 100 views I will do a lookbook of some Hollywood icons!

YAY!

SO coming soon is a Hollywood lookbook!

We're Not The Bad Guys

So it may seem like I cheated on you, but that's not the case. I promise you that I had no ability to write on this blog in any way. I was away from my computer for a whole week because I was in, sigh, the east bay.

I had to go to the east bay for a small commercial job and being there made me remember why I have such a hard time with northern California. See, living here I have always known about the North vs. the South issue in California, but I never really participated in it. To me, everyone is the same, we're either annoying or awesome no matter where we came from. However it seems that wherever I went, I was the only person that had that thought process. What I'm trying to say is, whenever I meet someone from the north, they always tend to stick their noses up when I say I'm from the south. When I went to the east bay for that job, everyone on that job was a complete jerk. 

Now, I know the argument might be the same from down here. People in LA might be rude and disgusted to hear that you're from a certain region of the world. Hell, I still feel a twinge of repugnance when I hear I have to go to the valley to get something or even when I hear someone is from the valley. However I'm trying to change that. 

I know that LA is notorious for being horrible, and, truthfully I don't get it. The people I've met have always been cordial and kind to me. They don't go out of their way to make me feel like I'm in heaven, but they treat me like a human being. People here follow a general moto; be kind to me, and I'll do the same to you.

Which is why I get so confused why the North seems so revered and the south is so criminalized. Maybe it is the people from the North that boast about their importance and amazement so much that the rest of the world believes them, or maybe it is an internalized residual prejudice from the civil war, but for some weird reason northern california is considered the best, and southern california is the shit on everyone's shoe. I simply wish that was changed.

LA is an amazing town that has as much to offer as does San Francisco. If you're lost on the subway we'll tell you where to get off or where to go, and if you need someone to take your picture, we'll push the button. We'll never boast about how amazing we are compared to you though, that's a northern thing.

My thoughts on this post is that hopefully the state will stop trying to separate each other and just accept who we are. We are Californians. We are an amazing state. We have history, and we have great food. We're all the same, and we should be happy to live on these great plains. 

What I Didn't Realize...

Coming back home there was something I realized that I really didn't understand before...

We live in paradise.

Growing up in this city, I've always heard the same thing about Los Angeles being a haven for not exhibiting the extremes of weather. As I got older, I understood that. I understood others flocked here to get away from the cold, I understood that the temperature in LA has always remained consistent throughout the year (except for August and September), and I understood that here, the sun always shines. However, I always wondered why people didn't want to experience the seasons. 

I thought that until I dealt with it myself. Then I finally got it. However, that is not why I think LA is paradise.

Traveling last year and seeing LA in the past couple of weeks, I realized Los Angeles is a paradise because it is a city that didn't accept its role as a concrete jungle. 

I have always considered my town a city, but I never realized that it took a different role to that. I don't know why, or I don't know how, but Los Angeles deliberately took the role of sustaining nature as a essential aspect of its image. 

I didn't see how nature or foliage was so abundant in this town. I always figured that other towns and cities were like my own. I assumed that during the 1970s the government decided to destroy the real natural beauty of LA like it did with Jimmy Carter's reputation, but it didn't, it used it as a source of energy. 

LA is a safe haven of vegetation. Wildlife roam free, and food is abundant. Each morning there is a cool breeze omitted from the dew drops formed on the leaves, and walking around you free clean and refreshed. This was something that I did not experience last year.

Last year I was sick most of the year. I was dealing with various forms of depression based on health. Going outside was tearing away at my insides. Getting off the plane I would walk around with massive headaches. Every night, when I would wash my face, I would have a residue of black gunk. The issues of pollution in asia were endless.

However above all, I felt a large portion of Asia didn't let nature naturally run its course in the city. It never integrated itself comfortably in the city's individual atmospheres. It became two separate entities. With LA, nature and modernity, go hand in hand.  

What I didn't realize was that LA has always taken the initiative to keep the true beauty of the world alive. The city might be a growing metropolis, but it's a land that still wants Mother Earth to be apart of it.

And I am now grateful for that.