Goodbye for now, and thank you

As a graphic artist, the words from a painter have stayed with me.  "The piece is never done. It just stops at an interesting place." That is where this blog is; an interesting place.

I'm taking an extended and indefinite leave from viewfromaloft, leaving the day-to-day Downtown Los Angeles observations and cultural notes to others.

While close friends already know, and as some readers here and at blogdowntown have speculated, I haven't been Downtown for a while. I've been covering the city remotely.

As a contributor at KCET's blogs, I will still be writing about Downtown and Los Angeles, along with the Inland Empire and High Desert.

There will be some tinkering behind the scenes around here. I've been working on a personal portfolio with this multi-blog platform, and will update viewfromaloft's blogroll in time. Maybe I will finally add a post about my own mural work.

For now, just let me say it has been a pleasure to help build community through here and elsewhere. Thanks for reading.

At Chop Suey Cafe / Photo by Rush Valera

Twitter: @viewfromaloft

Comments

[Waltarrrrr]

I just clicked over to visit thinking "At least Viewfromaloft is still blogging..." only to find Elvis has left the building. It would seem blogging is a dying art. There are so few local blogs worth reading anymore, and yours was one of my favorites. Thank you for all your efforts, I truly enjoyed your writing and photography.

Cheers!

[Travis]

I live a literal stones-throw from your (former?)Arts District HQ and I very much enjoyed your commitment to writing about the area. You've been the best source of local knowledge I could have asked for, and you've simply changed the way I see my neighborhood. In particular, I am terribly unhappy to see the "Downtown Vid Picks" go. Those videos, much like your own efforts, offer an always-undervalued sense of context and I cannot thank you enough. One never really does know the value of something they've got until it's gone, I guess.

Having said that, I'm positive that we'll require your return. Until then, best wishes!