another good reason to buy or rent an overpriced artist LOFT in Downtown Los Angeles
Julie Rasmussen sent out this email:
[gallery revisited comments]
I live in the Arts District of Downtown LA and am CURSED with the occasional stinky smell from the rendering* plant over in Vernon...
If you have ever smelled a NASTY stink in the air in Downtown and/or the surrounding area, chances are it came from the plant. If you haven’t smelled anything, consider yourself lucky but know you probably will at some point.
[Wow. That is a huuuge area we are talking about. But the smell is just from that place? Not from other things like dumpsters, downwind China Town (which is continually rank), street residents that defecate and urinate in corners and alleys and sidewalks, or basic street filth that is brewing and fermenting in the new summer sun? Not that? Because that is all over downtown too.]
The Stop The Smell project hopes to “encourage” the rendering plant to install a clean air filtration system of sorts to put an end to this horrific odor.
[does that include pretty piped in scents like at Disneyland?]
We can only encourage them to change their ways if we approach them as a strong, persuasive force. With that, we have created a petition for those who support the idea of clean smelling air so that all our voices can speak as one.
For those of you that live, work or play in Downtown this is something you should be educated on. For those of you that do not live in the area, you should still learn about this matter as the air over here can very easily blow your way. Pretty much, everyone everywhere should learn about what is going on and sign the petition to help put an end to it!
You can learn more and sign the petition to put an end to the stench at:
The more signatures we have, the better our chances of stopping the smell.
Please spread the word on this in everyway you can – forward the email on, blog it, post it on myspace, talk about it in chat rooms, do whatever you can to get the word out!
STOP THE SMELL!
-julie rasmussen
*If you don’t know what rendering is, learn about it here:
[Rendering is not a pretty thing at all. The more I learn about it and other meat packing practices the more I want to be vegetarian. But I digress.
The point here is that Downtown and the Arts District is changing so rapidly from what is was 20 years ago. Both good and bad. I just hate the prices of everything down there, and hearing about artists losing their lofts to renovators turning them into condos. If the local art market was keeping up with the rise in renovations then it would not be such a desperate thing. There are still tons and tons of struggling artists out there holding 2 jobs to keep a loft and not selling enough art to be full time and afford the space they need. Someone out there has been reading way too much artnet and not doing enough street research.
Buy more art.... and if you are making art, are atmospheric smells really the problem?]
[gallery revisited comments]
I live in the Arts District of Downtown LA and am CURSED with the occasional stinky smell from the rendering* plant over in Vernon...
If you have ever smelled a NASTY stink in the air in Downtown and/or the surrounding area, chances are it came from the plant. If you haven’t smelled anything, consider yourself lucky but know you probably will at some point.
[Wow. That is a huuuge area we are talking about. But the smell is just from that place? Not from other things like dumpsters, downwind China Town (which is continually rank), street residents that defecate and urinate in corners and alleys and sidewalks, or basic street filth that is brewing and fermenting in the new summer sun? Not that? Because that is all over downtown too.]
The Stop The Smell project hopes to “encourage” the rendering plant to install a clean air filtration system of sorts to put an end to this horrific odor.
[does that include pretty piped in scents like at Disneyland?]
We can only encourage them to change their ways if we approach them as a strong, persuasive force. With that, we have created a petition for those who support the idea of clean smelling air so that all our voices can speak as one.
For those of you that live, work or play in Downtown this is something you should be educated on. For those of you that do not live in the area, you should still learn about this matter as the air over here can very easily blow your way. Pretty much, everyone everywhere should learn about what is going on and sign the petition to help put an end to it!
You can learn more and sign the petition to put an end to the stench at:
The more signatures we have, the better our chances of stopping the smell.
Please spread the word on this in everyway you can – forward the email on, blog it, post it on myspace, talk about it in chat rooms, do whatever you can to get the word out!
STOP THE SMELL!
-julie rasmussen
*If you don’t know what rendering is, learn about it here:
[Rendering is not a pretty thing at all. The more I learn about it and other meat packing practices the more I want to be vegetarian. But I digress.
The point here is that Downtown and the Arts District is changing so rapidly from what is was 20 years ago. Both good and bad. I just hate the prices of everything down there, and hearing about artists losing their lofts to renovators turning them into condos. If the local art market was keeping up with the rise in renovations then it would not be such a desperate thing. There are still tons and tons of struggling artists out there holding 2 jobs to keep a loft and not selling enough art to be full time and afford the space they need. Someone out there has been reading way too much artnet and not doing enough street research.
Buy more art.... and if you are making art, are atmospheric smells really the problem?]
Labels: around town
posted by gallery blog revisited at
1:06 PM
3 Comments:
Sounds like those people that move into a house next door to a dairy and complain all day about it until the dairy is run out of business and moves. What do these people expect when they move into places never designed for people to live in that are located in old run down industrial sections of cities?
I heard that the rendering plants render dead animals and pets. Will starving artists be the next ones to be rendered? I smell my old art school friends...
they don't render pets...that would be illegal.
and gross than already gross.
yes, if we thought about it too much the world would be vegetarian tomorrow.
mmmm. sniff sniff....i smell soilant green!!
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