[[borrowed from tonx.org]]some pics of where i work not taken by me.
i also discovered a very random connection today. many months ago my [then] roommate ben, a floor manager [then] for urban outfitters in madison, wi, brought home a lovely book [
]which i spent some lengthy time perusing and marvelling over. at this time in my life i'd been kind of daydreaming about the possibilities of the year-to-come and l.a. had fallen amongst the other prospects. my friends at drunken butterfly, west coast natives, advised me that if i were going to move to l.a. that silver lake was the place for me.. so then this book came about and i was pretty awed, but felt pretty distant at the same time [sort of like how i feel when i read the magazine DWELL.. you know, amazing houses, but no conception whatsoever of actually living in one of them]. so then upon beginning to work at intelligentsia in silver lake, i was asked several times by customers about who designed the space and was informed by the baristas and other workers that the architect's name is, "barbara bestor," so that's what i started telling customers.
then just now i was reading owner doug zell's blog and found bestor's website and saw that she wrote the book i had become interested in so many months ago. oh connections..
