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L.A. in a Can: 4-Minute Neighborhood Video Tours*
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 UPDATE BELOW
Videographer Robert Sobul has tossed together a nifty video travelogue about Los Feliz that tours some of what he considers the neighborhood's high points:
Writer Jahmin Assa guides the tour of the Vista Theatre, Yuca's, Skylight Books, the Shakespeare bridge, the Post Office (?), the Dresden, the dueling Frank Lloyd Wright houses (Hollyhock and Ennis) and he makes brief mention of the Griffith Observatory curse, said to have killed James Dean, Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo before their time for filming "Rebel Without a Cause" there.
The video is hosted on TurnHere.com, a collection of such neighborhood videologues from around the U.S. supported by ads for the businesses mentioned in each video, but it's hard to ascertain from the home page whether the businesses that sign up actually control what the videographers shoot ...
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Other LA-centric vids include Belmont Shore, Watts Towers, Chinatown, Canter's, the Venice Boardwalk, Hollywood, Olvera Street, Armotown, the L.A. River, Hollywood Boulevard, Ventura, Hollywood & Highland, NoHo, Atwater Village, the Brewery, Echo Park, Covenant House in Hollywood, There's also a short bit on living in L.A. without a car.
Be warned. The pictures are fun, and the music not too bad. But the Flash video is infuriatingly buggy and balky.
UPDATE
On the flip side of hip'n'trendy, Mike Schneider at FranklinAvenue points out a video trailer for a DVD of nothing but taggers tagging L.A.
Taggers have pretty much destroyed all of the murals (I'm most pissed off by damage to the ones on the 110 north and 10 west) that had L.A. looking not-too-shabby about six, eight years ago. Hooray, for you, kids. You "got up."
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| Posted by: Mack_Reed on Thursday, March 09, 2006 - 10:57 AM
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