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May 2010

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Thursday, May 20, 2010 – Being There

It ain't where you're from. It's where you've been. - Sunset near Hyperion

LA is a hard taskmaster. Trends start here, and reach the rest of America much later. It happens here first, whatever it is. And it's important here to not fall behind – you need to catch the next trend early, to be onto something cool before anyone else realizes it even exists. That's the essence of LA Cool. And of course Hollywood is useless. Hollywood is where trends go to die – where they are officially sanctioned, as trends, and then monetized by the entertainment industry for general distribution and maximum profit. And there's a lag-time involved in sanding off the rough edges and removing this or that element that might offend someone or other and test-marketing and all the rest – so when twelve-year-old girls in Peoria and Duluth and Tulsa are onto something that's so very cool, you know that's last year's news

So Hollywood is a waste of time. Look elsewhere for what's happening. And Sunset Junction isn't Hollywood – it's the far beyond the pathetic tourists from Iowa looking for whatever they're looking for, a few miles east on Sunset Boulevard, a subset of Silverlake, before you get to Echo Park. Some say this is the place. Maybe it is. Maybe it isn't.

Punky Reggae Party, Sunset Junction
The Pity Party
Mad Planet
Danger Bird - club at Sunset at Lucille
Danger Bird - club at Sunset at Lucille
Secret Headquarters, Sunset Junction
Defaced Face, parking lot, Sunset at Hyperion
Marine at military surplus store, Sunset at Hyperion
Marine at military surplus store, Sunset at Hyperion
"Obey" face and pay phone, Sunset at Hyperion
Fluff
Casbah Café, Sunset at Hyperion, 2002 mural by Annie Sperling

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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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