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somasnakeoil-blog-blog · 5 years ago

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thegivingkeys-blog · 10 years ago

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Skid Row Pride

In down town Los Angeles exists a neighborhood officially known as “Central City East”, but if you know the area you know it is much better known as Skid Row, a 50-block radius where an estimated 2,000 people live on the streets.

Back in February, a man named Jeff “General Jeff” Page, a Skid Row activist, worked with people to paint a mural proclaiming this neighborhood to be Skid Row. A name not legally recognized or acknowledged by city officials, it is not even listed on any map of Los Angeles. General Jeff said he wanted to paint a mural that would become the Hollywood sign equivalent to the neighborhood.

Last week, General Jeff as well as many Skid Row residents that live in tents on the street worked together to add to the mural, and finished a new painting.

General Jeff expressed it best on his Facebook page, “History was made because under the City of Los Angeles’ fairly new mural ordinance, Skid Row residents came together to both ‘officially’ qualify and register said murals WITHOUT the assistance of any Skid Row non-profits, social service providers or any other agencies.”

“This is about the desperate need for the Skid Row community to identify with itself and acknowledge itself,” General Jeff told LA Weekly.

General Jeff has the permission of the building’s owner to continue painting, and that is exactly what he plans to do. “This is also for people outside Skid Row to respect it as being more than drugs, bums and addicts,” he said.

These murals are about changing Skid Row from being a statistic to being a community.

All photos courtesy of Stephen Zeigler.

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somasnakeoil-blog-blog · 5 years ago

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The first time I dumpster dived was in London as a small child with my Mother. They were of course called “skips” not dumpsters. I don’t remember what we got, but I do know she had an affinity for digging through the trash. She also used to take us to a landfill of sorts in the UK, where we would dig for antique colored bottles that she put up in the house as decorative art. When I was a teen and learned how to dive for bagels, bread and behind Frito Lay from punks in Rapid City SD, I felt like the world had opened up. It gave me a full body exhilaration when I jumped inside a dumpster and found something rad. A treasure hunt. Gathering. Recycling. A sense of ethical pride in rescuing what was cast aside, as well as being stoked to get something without spending money. It’s how I got most of my admittedly terrible record collection and when @mattyxboi and I lived together it’s how we furnished our house. People get in trouble with the law for doing it in some places. It’s not ok to throw a celebratory get down in the trash. Its understandable on one hand. It can be dangerous. There’s hazardous shit in dumpsters. People die dumpster diving. Sometimes dumpsters get picked up by trucks with people inside them. It’s no joke. And. We live in a wasteful, capitalist culture that revels in disposability and denies access to resources with locked dumpsters. It’s one of those complicated things like a lot of social issues. I’m still a shameless dumpster diver. I don’t need to do it for survival currently. I dive for art supplies because they’re too expensive, and I feel like I can have a small environmental impact by recycling materials out of the trash for my art. I occasionally stretch my own canvas, but I always feel better about my work when I’ve dragged something home from the trash or bought materials from my scrounge friend in Skid Row. Maybe it doesn’t matter on a large scale, but I feel like every little bit helps. #dumpsterdiving #artsupplies #scrounge #skidrowpride Photo: @jennarotten https://www.instagram.com/p/BzoJzPfj57Z/?igshid=vinhfpvin8fo

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