Friday, July 11, 2008 – Hollywood Variations

You have to keep an eye on Hollywood.  Things change all the time, but it's all variations on a theme.

Artists at Work: Hollywood Boulevard is getting a second Hookah Lounge and these folks have hired a team of taggers – a Tag Team, if you will – to create the façade, or really, what you will see when the place is closed and the steel doors rolled down. They were nice fellows, willing to discuss their work, and suggested it would look really good in two are three more days, when all the colors were laid on – so do come back. It looks pretty good now.

Ah, the Magic Store on Hollywood Boulevard just added rockets. That's nice.

The latest in local kink –

The past dies a slow death –

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Technical Note:

Photographs after March 3, 2008, were taken with a Nikon D200 – or a Nikon D70 when noted. All previous photographs were taken with the D70. The lenses used are (1) AF-S Nikkor 18-70 mm 1:35-4.5G ED, or (2) AF Nikkor 70-300 mm telephoto, or (3) AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 55-200 mm f/4-5.6G ED. Photography here is modified for web posting using Adobe Photoshop 7.0.  The earliest photography in the archives was done with a Sony Mavica digital still camera (MVC-FD-88) with built-in digital zoom.

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