Keep in mind, most of these pictures were taken with a very wide lens. The benefit of this is, you can see a whole lot of stuff. The drawback is, the size and distance of all the stuff you see is greatly distorted.

For instance, the street I live on is not actually fifty yards across. If this picture looks like it was taken in 1943, that's probably because that's about how old these places likely are.



If you look closely, inbetween those palm trees you'll see the Hollywood sign. Again, the wide lens makes everything look far way. If you're standing on my patio, the sign actually looks more like this.



Say you took this picture of the Hollywood sign and then you turned to your right and took a picture of the patio you were standing on. That picture would look like this. 

This little deck is actually built into the roof of the house, and our apartment is the upper floor. The lower floor has one apartment on each side.



We just moved here and haven't really unpacked a lot of stuff, but don't be fooled. These boxes all stopped here on their way to Mary Louise Parker's house.. I built her Ikea picnic table (in the boxes to the right and back).

 

Don't be fooled by the wide lens, that's a California King you're looking at baby. Off to the left there is what we call the "bonus room." It has only a couple of spots where the ceiling is high enough to stand, but its filled with all our unpacked junk. 
 


Here is the living space, with our awesome coffee table we got off craigslist. We now have a couch, also from craigslist, but at the time this picture was taken we were sitting on the floor everyday and eating off of those boxes stuffed under the table. Around the corner on the right there is the kitchen...



Our kitchen is the ultimate in forced perspective architecture. And yes, two of our windows have bars despite the fact that we are on the second floor. 

That's it. I'll post more pictures in a couple weeks when we have some furniture.  Home page.