walkin'

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http://walklawithme.com/

Now I know it's an art project and all, and it may produce some neat stuff. But it's a ridiculously upper middle class conceit that walking in Los Angeles is special. It's not special, it's just painful.

I spent ten years in Los Angeles without a car, riding the buses and burning a lot of shoe leather. While I did learn many things, see sights, get a sense of the city at ground level etc. etc., mostly I just was dirty and tired mostly, late for everything, and often worried for my safety.

Lots of people walk all the time in Los Angeles. We call those people "people without bus money who need to get somewhere".

But I bet this project does produce some interesting images.

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[kineticfactory.livejournal.com]

They have something similar in London; they call it tube-walking; i.e., gathering at one tube station and then walking the streets towards the next one, rather than doing the sensible thing and catching a tube train.

From what I gather, downing a few pints at some of the pubs inevitably present along the journey is a big part of it.