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Tuesday, September 7, 2010 – Not Technicolor

Multicolored Face - "Alec" graphic on the wall of the former Old Spaghetti Factory, Sunset and Gordon, Hollywood

The new all-glass Technicolor building sits at 6040 Sunset Boulevard on the northeast corner of the Sunset Gower Studios lot – between Gower and Gordon. Technicolor once ruled Hollywood with saturated levels of color, as in The Wizard of Oz and Singin' in the Rain, and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Fantasia. But in the digital world they've had to adapt – they do lots more than color processing now. Still, all the color in the world seems to come from here. And at the crumbling abandoned restaurant across the street someone doesn't like that. This woman stares at the Technicolor building all day and all night. There are other ways of seeing color.

And they don't belong here anyway – the Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation was founded in Boston in 1914 and incorporated in Maine in 1915, and it was chartered in Delaware in 1921. And, since 2001, Technicolor has been part of the French electronics and media conglomerate Thomson – and the name of Thomson Group was changed to "Technicolor" as of February 1, 2010, re-branding the entire company. A Hollywood institution, indeed –

Multicolored Face - "Alec" graphic on the wall of the former Old Spaghetti Factory, Sunset and Gordon, Hollywood

The same image digitally equalized –

Multicolored Face - "Alec" graphic on the wall of the former Old Spaghetti Factory, Sunset and Gordon, Hollywood
Multicolored Face - "Alec" graphic on the wall of the former Old Spaghetti Factory, Sunset and Gordon, Hollywood
Mel Gibson, Crazy - poster at the site of the former Old Spaghetti Factory, Sunset and Gordon, Hollywood

Yep, below and to the right that's a color enhanced Mel Gibson, and he is crazy and dangerous –

    September 7, 2010: The deputy who arrested Mel Gibson in 2006 for drunk driving is accusing the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department of retaliating against him because he resisted requests from superiors to remove mention of the actor’s anti-Semitic slurs from an initial arrest report.

    Deputy James Mee, who filed a lawsuit against the department Tuesday, said that in the four years since the incident, he has been passed over for promotions and has had his performance unfairly scrutinized.

    Because the deputy is Jewish, his attorneys said, he was unfairly suspected of leaking details of the tirade to the media.

    But a spokesman for Sheriff Lee Baca denied this.

Gibson is nothing but trouble.

Mel Gibson, Crazy - poster at the site of the former Old Spaghetti Factory, Sunset and Gordon, Hollywood

And this veiled woman above Mel must be driving him crazy –

Veiled Woman - "Free Humanity" poster at the site of the former Old Spaghetti Factory, Sunset and Gordon, Hollywood
Veiled Woman - "Free Humanity" poster at the site of the former Old Spaghetti Factory, Sunset and Gordon, Hollywood

A Hollywood in-joke – canned lines –

Canned Lines - graphic at the site of the former Old Spaghetti Factory, Sunset and Gordon, Hollywood
Canned Lines - graphic at the site of the former Old Spaghetti Factory, Sunset and Gordon, Hollywood
Canned Lines - graphic at the site of the former Old Spaghetti Factory, Sunset and Gordon, Hollywood

Like it says –

Eyeworm - at the site of the former Old Spaghetti Factory, Sunset and Gordon, Hollywood
Eyeworm - at the site of the former Old Spaghetti Factory, Sunset and Gordon, Hollywood

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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.

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