LIZ SAYS: A fav destination is NSDM, a big industrial sized playground. I love it out there. Its like the stage set for Michael Jackson’s Beat It or a Pat Benetar vid with her and a bunch of kids dancing towards the back stepping camera. It’s all graffitti covered and half torn down, but there is no broken glass on the ground only paper. Its a camera ready urban desolate landscape. But, instead of the area going down, its going up. The way it looks right now is really fantastic for people my age, who spent their early adulthood looking at movies that painted our world as a crumbling futuristic wasteland.
The area houses and warehouses art related businesses. Things that need big room to develop. Plywood panels of billboard sized spray painted backgrounds for photo shoots are propped up against the wall. Its easy to wander around, finding great places to shoot, just because the area is in the perfect state of decay and renewal.
If we had bikes out there, I would really look around.
It is, however, ever changing and I suspect the fun of the place will not last. It seems to host DJ events and huge parties and conferences, so soon all the empty fantasy lots will be filled and there will be only places to park in or pay for.
There is a stoic little bit of beach, that bravely puts on the face of a beach club. The club/shop has a really loud speaker that it puts in its narrow doorway. It blasts the sounds of summer to anyone even vaguely nearby. It is all facade, the shop itself is little more than a public restroom. I totally love its tenacity.
The area houses and warehouses art related businesses. Things that need big room to develop. Plywood panels of billboard sized spray painted backgrounds for photo shoots are propped up against the wall. Its easy to wander around, finding great places to shoot, just because the area is in the perfect state of decay and renewal.
If we had bikes out there, I would really look around.
It is, however, ever changing and I suspect the fun of the place will not last. It seems to host DJ events and huge parties and conferences, so soon all the empty fantasy lots will be filled and there will be only places to park in or pay for.
There is a stoic little bit of beach, that bravely puts on the face of a beach club. The club/shop has a really loud speaker that it puts in its narrow doorway. It blasts the sounds of summer to anyone even vaguely nearby. It is all facade, the shop itself is little more than a public restroom. I totally love its tenacity.
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