Synchronicity Salon in Black Rock City (Burning Maaaaaan!)
We went on the road with our September Salon and posted up at 6:00 and F in Black Rock City.
Photos By Heather Rose DeStefano
Synchronicity Salon – Burning Man )’(
We went on the road with our September Salon and posted up at 6:00 and F in Black Rock City.
Photos By Heather Rose DeStefano
Synchronicity LA is part of a greater community known as the BLVD. There are over 30 individuals calling the same block of Westmoreland BLVD our home. We have monthly meetings and share creative workspaces and community meals 4 nights a week.
We love riding our bikes. Our first BLVD gaggle was a success! Stay tuned for more in the future!
The BLVD Gaggle Ride
08.19.11
Meet at 8 — Ride at 9
The BLVD Collective: a Los Angeles story of radical inclusion. The BLVD is a village of artists, musicians, social activists and the like working collectively to create and celebrate urban community. Come chill on the BLVD and learn about living in community, sharing recourses, meals, ideas, friendship, and creative expression. And then fly with us. Meet at 8 at Synchronicity LA (1666 Westmoreland BLVD, 90006) and ride at 9.
This is an easy paced ride — ALL BIKES WELCOME!!!
No riders left behind. Bring the essentials: tubes,tools,cash.
We’ll make at least one stop to consume beverages. bring a can of your favorite liquid courage.
For more info make an electronic mail for ryan: ryan.a.maxey@gmail.com
Remember, a gaggle can ride 71% further than a lone rider.
The lovely Jennifer Sharpe spent some time at our house capturing our soundwaves! It was aired this morning on 89.3 KPCC. You can Listen HERE!

Two singer/songwriters (Johanna Chase and Tin Santos), an Illustrator (Andress Yourself), a filmmaker (Ryan Maxey), and friends are taking to the road on The I Heart People Tour, a tour with stops at 7 cities along the West Coast that aims to share music, art, and spread the word on urban intentional community living!
“On a veggie oil/solar powered bus, our crew will depart from our home in Los Angeles: The BLVD, a community of more than 30 friends in 5 houses, including Synchronicity LA. Recently featured in an article in GOOD Magazine, Synchronicity LA is part of an intentional community in LA that focuses on ‘generating community through hospitality, intentionality, artistic action, and a dedication to the reduction of harm.’”
“We hope to share the spirit of community by hosting bus-side potlucks in each city before each gig played by Johanna and her band. Bring some food to share, and join us around the bus for music from Tin Santos, live screen printing (tour shirts) by Andress Yourself, photo booth portraits on the front of the bus provided by Maxey Fish and Sea Reels, and you can add some color with your paintbrush skills to the community mural on the side of our bus! Underlying all of the fun, we want share community and original expression!”
….Learn more about this incredible tour on its Kickstarter page!
Jamie Criss is perched up at 1660 Westmoreland Blvd, at the beloved Treehouse. Here she is at the Synchronicity LA Salon reading a piece on life on the BLVD. I love these words, they paint such a vivid picture. I’m so happy that I’ll forever have this to bring me back to the beautiful days on Westmoreland BLVD.
A small taste of community living. All of our cups seemed to have disappeared. So i went on a cup hunt in all the nooks and crannies of Synchronicity LA. I found over 75 of them. Then I washed them and took pictures and sound.
Hi it’s Tin and Ryan. We like to take trips and also like to substitute put M’s in words where they don’t belong. Here we are gandering up Highway 395, seeking advemture within valleys and mountains. Moo.
bill (the red river) in our living room!
I remember listening to The Red River’s Little Songs About The Big Picture when it was released last month and thinking, “If our house had a spirit band, it would be the Red River.” The album captures so much of the essence of our house, both in the way that we unashamedly get wild, sing, dance, and celebrate our friendship and free spirits… and in the way that we share our quiet, more painful and vulnerable moments together. And, truly, can one exist without the other? It reminds me of an excerpt from Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet:
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.
And the selfsame well from which your
laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your
tears.
Bill from The Red River brought his music to Synchronicity LA’s living room. Here he plays the track “Dirty Dave” from The Red River’s latest release, Little Songs About the Big Picture, which, by the way, was named Top Ten Albums of the year by NPR’s music guru Bob Boilen (http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2010/12/08/131862104/bob-s-favorite-top-9-for-2010) ! Tin Santos and friends help out with the vocals on this track!