Wednesday, August 6, 2008 – It Gets Even Darker

After forty years, The Mastering Lab up on Hollywood Boulevard closed – where many a hit record was mixed. That was in April. In July, The Museum of Death moved in. They had been looking for more space.  If you want to see a baseball signed by Charles Manson and a yarn doll he constructed, drop by. That's not the half of it. Hollywood gets darker and darker.

Floating above the Museum of Death, this dinosaur –

Floating above the northeast corner of La Brea and Hollywood Boulevard, nightmare Levi's –

Someone decided it was time to ask Superman what the heck was going on –

But who can explain Hollywood?

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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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