Monday, December 31, 2007 – New Years Eve

New Years Eve in Hollywood and you begin to wonder what the New Year will bring. You could visit a psychic. They're all over.  You could visit what we call the "Freeway Psychic" – just off the 10 Freeway, La Cienega at Cadillac (really), next to the giant Kaiser hospital.  Fate hangs in the balance at that hospital. It's a good location.

Odd that on New Years Eve the place is locked tight – double locks, security bars, the electronic alarm activated. Maybe these people do know something.  The red bow is a nice touch.

Just down the street at "Widget Post" – a post-production house that specializes in sound (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, King Kong, Syriana and so on) – the Dali Lama looks down on the New Year.  He offers no advice.

Someone is open up in West Hollywood –

It's all nonsense. A sign at Genesee Park, Fairfax Avenue at the freeway -

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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.

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