In case you've never heard of Watts, it's one of the more notorious places of L.A. Watts, Compton, South Central. It's the very scary ghetto to most Westsiders, who shake with trepidation if they have to go east of the 405. My mom actually called in sick to work because she insisted that I was in imminent danger without accompaniment. I assured her I would be okay and that an elderly woman and 5 year old girl weren't exactly what I'd call security.
Now that I'm privileged enough to have bought myself a digital camera (thank you student loans) I was able to take some pictures of this feared place.
waiting for the train to go by
amazing art, everywhere
I even found a Goddess...
She's holding a pen;)
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Beautiful art all around, I love it all! This is a cool organization.
Wow, what cool art! I love it when you stumble upon stuff like that in cities; living in a small community, you don't find things sporadically like that all too often.
It's so funny too that Sam Simon help runs the foundation. He actually got disgruntled with the show as soon as started going downhill and quit. Makes me wonder what kind of personal differences and goals came between him, Groening, and Brooks... I'm not a big enough nerd to go back and watch commentary on my DVDs though, lol.
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