Everyone has seen Dogtown and the Z-Boys – the seminal documentary on the famous Venice Beach Zephyr skateboard team back in the day. That's when Venice Beach was the center all it all. Every kid in North America wanted to be here. But that was nearly forty years ago and things change. Venice Beach is now for the street artists. And this is the Dogtown Art Collective on Ocean Front Walk –
And nearby –
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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.