Black Balls in Silver Lake Resevoir

About 3,000,000 black plastic balls were dropped into the Ivanhoe resevoir in Silver Lake last year. It'd been forever since I'd been on that side of town (where I used to live and my brother still does). We took a bike ride in the late afternoon (click here for a crappy mobile phone video on YouTube) and it was the first time I'd seen all the balls floating in the water. The geometric shapes they form on the surface are like a giant version of a silicon chip circuitry or something.

Click here to find out the why behind the millions of plastic balls on the L.A. NOW blog from the L.A. Times.