Tuesday, January 1, 2008 – Hollywood Shoes

From the Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles (CRA/LA) this is Ascent, Kim Yasuda, 1994 – at the Cherokee-Whitley Parking Garage, 1710-1720 North Cherokee Avenue, Hollywood –

A spiral of 31 cast bronze shoes suspended on the steel cables encircles a glass elevator of a four-story parking garage. The shoes appear to walk in an upward spiral. Each shoe is suspended from two cables stretched from the floor to a curved steel lighting sculpture at the top of the elevator shaft. The bottom of each cable is anchored to a stainless steel rod implanted in the concrete floor.

The sculpture acknowledges the importance of film to Hollywood's past. According to the artist, her idea for the sculpture was inspired by the sequential images first introduced in the late 1800s by photographer Eadweard Muybridge.

Dancing upward, to nowhere…

Where North Cherokee Avenue meets Hollywood Boulevard you also find art, of a sort – commercial and historic. There's this new poster.

And there are the roll-up doors.

The old Art Deco is art, of a sort –

The community center at Cherokee and Yucca will clear the visual palate –

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Technical Note:

Most of these photographs were shot with a Nikon D70 - using lens (1) AF-S Nikkor 18-70 mm 1:35-4.5G ED, or (2) AF Nikkor 70-300mm telephoto, or after 5 June 2006, (3) AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor, 55-200 mm f/4-5.6G ED. They were modified for web posting using Adobe Photoshop 7.0.  Earlier photography was done with a Sony Mavica digital still camera (MVC-FD-88) with built-in digital zoom.

All text and photos, unless otherwise noted, Copyright © 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 - Alan M. Pavlik