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Tuesday, February 2, 2010 – Hollywood Power

Hollywood is an insular, self-congratulatory place, quite smug in its own way, thus this new windmill sculpture on the northeast corner of La Brea and Fountain – "Hollywood: The Power to Inspire." The place is actually about people with severe narcissistic ego disorders making obscene amounts of money – but this cover story will do.

Windmill sculpture on the northeast corner of La Brea and Fountain - "Hollywood: The Power to Inspire"

Above the sculpture a billboard for the vanity-production movie Valentine's Day – easy work, cameos by all the big stars, somewhat like the old television show Hollywood Squares. Much of it was shot on location on Hollywood Boulevard last August.

Billboard for the movie Valentine's Day, northeast corner of La Brea and Fountain

Yep, and one more production of Dreamgirls is in town –

Dreamgirls banner, northeast corner of La Brea and Fountain

But Hollywood is a magic place, or so they say –

Hollywood Toys and Costumes, Hollywood Boulevard

Ah, glamour and fame is an illusion –

Red woman with cigarette holder, window on Hollywood Boulevard

Dolores Del Rio mural on Hudson, Hollywood

That's Capitol Records over there – the Beatles, Frank Sinatra, that sort of thing –

Here's some advice –

Punk Skeleton - sticker on yellow pole, Hollywood

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Technical Note:

These photographs were taken with a Nikon D200 – the lenses used were AF-S Nikkor 18-70 mm 1:35-4.5G ED, or AF Nikkor 70-300 mm telephoto. The high-resolution photography here was modified for web posting using Adobe Photoshop 7.0 software.


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[February 2010] [Hyperion Walls] [Local Melodrama] [Odd Still Life] [Hollywood Power] [Reading the Walls] [Monumental] [Another Odd Corner] [Hollywood as Art] [Lock Fence] [Heavy Rain] [When It Rains] [Hollywood Tradition] [Catching Hollywood] [Art Palms] [By My Valentine] [Dark Afternoon] [Venice Eyeworm] [Beach Sunshine] [Beach Hostel] [February Graffiti] [Hollywood Love] [Breaking It] [Just Odd] [Take a Red] [Greetings] [Local Shapes] [Only in Hollywood] [Cool Birds] [Gull Geometry] [The Far End] [Thriving Now] [Get Up] [Obvious Messages] [Almost Hollywood] [Mind Games] [Sunset Geometry] [Wilcox Signs] [The Professionals] [Eye Catching] [Local Characters] [Some Pansies] [February Basics] [Oscars Soon] [White Elephants] [Hollywood Iron] [Some Souvenirs] [Foolish Choice] [Devils and More] [The Crumb Legacy] [Love Hurts] [End on Sunset] [Rock Icons] [Odd Lot Shots] [To Be Popular] [Local Drama] [Saturday Azalea] [Retro Flowers]