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Originally Posted by demonrail666
It'd be a tragedy if some of the classic LA street art was lost, by people like Chaz Bojorquez. That stuff represents a major part of the city's allure and mystique to people like me, who've never been to LA but who see its street art as being a far greater incentive to visit than Mann's Chinese bloody Theatre.
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Dude, build and destroy is the LA model. For the past 200 years we have built remarkable cities and destroyed them and rebuilt them and destroyed them and rebuilt them. We are in the process of destroying and rebuilding, with this Georgia O'Keefe pastel New Mexico kind of look. However, much of the street art is neglected and even sometimes being replaced, and the entire culture from the top down is entirely anti-art. Art is only acceptable in LA as a commodity right now. The future designs, architecture, street planning, and green spaces are being designed more so with plastic uniformity in rejection of the traditional LA system of slightly organized chaos. The plastic take over is a symbol of the corporate, wealthy take over of LA. Its like we are trying to be Miami or something : /
The legal system has incarcerated 2 million worth (150,000 at any given time) of the more criminalized folks, deported about a million others. They took a lot of street folks kindness for weakness. Corporate take over of neighborhoods results in mass evictions from various buy outs. "Redevelopment" has built delightful 20 story condos and townhouses, which is a great future for LA, we need to go vertical, horizontal city planning has resulted in a merciless urban sprawl. However they price out folks in the neighborhoods that are supposed to be redeveloped. Where do these folks move? The Inland Empire,
Stockton , Sacramento where like some kind of black hole these neighborhoods resemble a 1990s gang movie..
LA has essentially tried to bribe, force out, price out, or kill its way out of our decades of social and economic problems. What sucks most of all is in the immediate post-Uprising period, as a community we seriously got a lot done! Again, some scumbags in "power" took our kindness for weakness. Hopefully we have only lost a battle, and not the war.