El Segundo Beach Resort - 2020 (industrialization gets bitch slaped by the experience economy)

The future of the El Segundo power plant seems to be fading as Southern California Edison no longer needs power from the El Segundo plant. City councils have voted for the rezoning of the 33 acre site with plans in mind for a Beach Resort. If it is realized it would be the only beach resort operating between Santa Monica and Huntington Beach. Except for having the Chevron refinery and a waste treatment plant as its neighbor, it sounds like a great opportunity for El Segundo. But what of the existing power plant? Will reminiscence of its existence still remain on the new plans? Will this resort be completely detached from the aura of its site? What brand is El Segundo? I smell a thesis project brewing. out.

The Beach Reporter

Pompidou meets US bank building

If the machine had blood this would be one of its vital organs. The aesthetic is consistent, Industrial. But how is it portrayed in the information age? What is the aesthetic of informational? Should my next image be a close up of a motherboard?

Shout out to El Segundo's Finest

Just want to give a huge thank you to the Chevron Oil Refinery and the El Segundo Police Dept. for their hospitality and for avoiding the strip search and cavity check in their homeland security exercises of inspecting my personal items and camera images. Apparently in our "heightened state of alert",photography of infrastructural buildings are suspect to terrorist activities. Not to say that I'm upset, I'm more or less conditioned to the institutional implementation of fear to its masses. I was free to go after a full written report and an explanation that I wasn't a terrorist. At least, they let me keep the pictures.