{"id":452,"date":"2005-12-07T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-07T18:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/?p=452"},"modified":"2005-12-07T10:46:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-07T18:46:00","slug":"walking-up-vine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/walking-up-vine\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking Up Vine"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m walking from Argentum to Amoeba, switching jobs mid-day (Eleanor Ave to Vine to Sunset to Ivar.) Since I’m rarely without my camera, and today is so beautiful, I decide to snap photos of whatever I deceree photo-worthy along the way.<\/p>\n

There’s a gate on the West side of the street. It’s usually closed. Today it’s open, and though I’m running late, I can’t resist walking through it. A tunnel stretches from the street and opens into a really cool courtyard. I love this kind of stuff. So dreary on the outside, but a kind of Shangri-La on the inside. Like a geode, only not the kind with spiders inside like in that movie<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A little further up Vine, at La Mirada. It’s the day after posting that thing about Sony and its graffiti art<\/a> and I run smack into some of it on Vine. And right there, at La Mirada, on the wall of a Pawn Shop, is this:<\/p>\n

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Yeah, because I believe that some enterprising street artist loves the PSP so much that he’s gonna declare his love for all Vine to see on the wall of this shop.<\/p>\n

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Creepy, no? Zombified urchins molest their gizmos. Makes me wanna rush out and buy one.
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\nThen of course, on the corner of Sunset and Vine, the Earthquake<\/a> building. It’s getting a major revamp after sitting dormant for years, collecting mendicants like dust bunnies and then occasionally letting off a belch of smoke<\/a> or two. This is how L.A.’s largest billboard looks today:<\/p>\n

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Then, according to Curbed LA<\/a> (who, by the way, have been kind enough to give me a kick-ass spot on their blogroll,) this is how it will look once the Mary Kay team finishes its work:<\/p>\n

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…still in keeping with the billboard theme. Only the tenants will have changed.<\/p>\n

And then finally, I’m at work, which is getting into that non-stop edge-of-your sanity rush leading into the holidays. Today is different, I suppose, because a customer named Suzanne buys me a copy of The Thorn Birds on DVD because I tell her I’ve never seen it. So there’s that.<\/p>\n

That’s it for today.<\/p>\n

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Oh, wait. Here’s a picture of Sarah Cracknell<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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