Hyperventilation | leinehed.com » Downtown http://blog.leinehed.com Hello and welcome to the blog of graphic designer and former Hyper Island student Sebastian Leinehed. Hyperventilation is my online journal where I post thing that I find interesting, amusing and inspiring. Tue, 21 Dec 2010 13:49:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 First time driving in Los Angeles http://blog.leinehed.com/2010/02/first-time-driving-in-los-angeles/ http://blog.leinehed.com/2010/02/first-time-driving-in-los-angeles/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:40:08 +0000 leinehed http://blog.leinehed.com/?p=283 On sunday me and Sean borrowed Kirsten’s car and drove to IKEA to buy some furniture for our living room. It was my first time driving in LA (and my first time driving a Prius, felt like driving a space ship arcade game), but it all went pretty well, I didn’t crash anything and didn’t run anyone over. The roads here are so wide compared to Sweden, the streets in Downtown are wider than our freeways, and their freeways are wide enough to land Jumbojets next to eachother. 8 lanes in every direction!

Here’s a clip of us making our way back into Downtown LA.

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The youthful and stylish Stay Hotel

The first ho(s)tel was called Stay Hotel, and was kind of carved out of a wing of a bigger hotel. It was supposed to, and I quote, “youthful, high-style, and high-tech”. Well… that depends on if you call windows high-tech. Our windows consisted of metal mesh and wooden shades. And since the police and fire station conveniently enough was just around the block, we fell asleep to a sweet serenade of screaming sirens and horns…

We spent 2 nights at that place. After that our boss Jose took pity on us and put us up at a slightly fancier adress, the Kyoto Grand Hotel. That was totally awesome and a real lifesaver (Thanks Jose!).

Our room at Tokyo Grand Hotel

Downtown LA at night as seen from our hotel window

We checked out on saturday, because by then we had found a permanent apartment. More on that in the next post!

In the meantime, enjoy this hastily improvised panoramic view from our hotel room over Los Angeles.

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