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Just visited the open house for the Mormon temple in San Diego and it was really uncanny, surreal, unsettling, and incredibly liminal. If you’re into esoteric rituals, religion, cults, liminal atmospheres, or even just design and architecture, this is a must visit while you still can.

Apparently the temple is super sacred and always closed to the public and even most Mormons but they’re renovating and decided to open it up for tours. I think it’s only for a few weeks and then they’ll close it indefinitely again.

It’s free, don’t have to give any info, and they weren’t pushy whatsoever, but it does get busy so you won’t be completely alone in these spaces. Still super neat IMO.

Compared to most other locations, Barnsdall Theater seems a bit run down and not in the cool BOC aesthetic way. This being LA, I figured Warp would have booked one of the many old warehouses, lofts, an actual church somewhere, or somewhere more visually impactful.

The park is nice and I dig Frank Lloyd Wright’s work at that house but from what I recall the theater interior itself is very modest.

Definitely jealous of folks across the pond but it’s still a rare BOC event at the end of the day so I shouldn’t even complain.