Brooklyn Heights in Los Angeles??? Brooklyn Avenue?? Brooklyn?

The east Los Angeles neighborhood of Boyle Heights originally included a section called "Brooklyn Heights" on its northern side, centered on Prospect Park. A commercial area developed along "Brooklyn Avenue," which has been since renamed "Cesar Chavez Avenue." Historically, diverse immigrant ethnic groups (Mexican, Jewish, and Japanese) occupied the neighborhood. Today, Boyle Heights continues to change, undergoing a slow gentrification, but the avenue continues to retain and project a Mexican-American presence. 

While not a comprehensive documentation of the neighborhood, this video challenges you to watch and feel the "Brooklyn Avenue experience" by driving both east and then west along the street, along with a brief circling of historic Evergreen Cemetery. 

For more detailed information on Boyle Heights, this is a link to the Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyle_Heights,_Los_Angeles

Driving in L.A.? Drive safe!

SPECTACULAR Santa Monica Bay SUNSET - Zen - Meditation - Exercise - ASMR - 1/6/24

Watch this incredible Santa Monica Bay Sunset from the palisades down to the boardwalk. Vibrant colors change like magic. Clouds distort like bubbles in the bath. People gaze in wonderment like children at a carnival.

Witnesses glide by in rapturous contentment and blissful joy.

Saturday January 6, 2024 marks the date of this spectacular spectacle of earthly glory.

The ASMR experience will tickle you. The meditative qualities will inspire you. The exercising watchers will be happily distracted from their vigors.

Enjoy.

Getty Glimpses 1/14/24 Visit to The Getty Center - Brentwood - Los Angeles - City Views - Sunset

This January 14, 2024 visit to the Getty Center happened on the last day of the William Blake exhibit. Thus, crowds beyond the average jammed into the parking structure, the "three-car, cable-pulled hover train people mover," and the galleries themselves. Outside, the clear skies made for easy viewing across Los Angeles from Santa Monica Bay to Downtown. 

If you look real close facing east-ish, you can spot Century City, the Park LaBrea apartments, the Beverly Center Mall, the Ninety Two Towers at the west end of the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, and the downtown L.A. skyline in the far distance. 

Facing west-ish, you can spot the Santa Monica Bay itself as well as the beach cites all the way down to a hazy Palos Verdes Peninsula.

A vibrant sunset appears later in the video with an array of colors certain to give you a pause, a tingle, perhaps even a meditative moment.  

Of course, people watching figures prominently in this brief glimpse of the Getty.

 Enjoy!

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getty_Center

FROM THE BEACH TO THE BOONIES - Driving to Topanga 9/14/23 3X High Speed Meditation Exercise ASMR

The other day a rock slide occurred on Topanga Canyon Road, closing the southern entrance and exit to the somewhat "rural" village of Topanga Canyon, known as one of the last outposts of the classic Southern California bohemian hippie lifestyle.

Topanga is the name given to the area by the Native American indigenous Tongva tribe, and may mean "where the mountain meets the sea" or "a place above." As of this writing, the road is still closed and the promise of another storm this weekend may lead to its remaining closed for a while longer. This video travels South Topanga Canyon Road northbound from Pacific Coast Highway at the beach to the heart of the village where it meets Old Topanga Road. Recorded on 9/14/23, the day was warm and the road was clear.

FROM THE BEACH TO THE BOONIES - Driving to Topanga 9/14/23 Real Time Meditation Exercise ASMR

The other day a rock slide occurred on Topanga Canyon Road, closing the southern entrance and exit to the somewhat "rural" village of Topanga Canyon, known as one of the last outposts of the classic Southern California bohemian hippie lifestyle.

Topanga is the name given to the area by the Native American indigenous Tongva tribe, and may mean "where the mountain meets the sea" or "a place above." As of this writing, the road is still closed and the promise of another storm this weekend may lead to its remaining closed for a while longer. This video travels South Topanga Canyon Road northbound from Pacific Coast Highway at the beach to the heart of the village where it meets Old Topanga Road. Recorded on 9/14/23, the day was warm and the road was clear.

THE FIRST OMEN Westwood Village Premiere 3/26/24

 

Walking through Westwood Village this afternoon, one couldn't help but notice a lot of people dressed in black clothing setting up and preparing for tonight's premiere of THE FIRST OMEN at the Fox Village Theatre. 

Snapshot L.A. is predicting heavy traffic in the village tonight, with reduced available street parking, blinding klieg lights, tyrannical black clad staffers ordering you around, impatient low-level studio employees waiting to be allowed entrance, press members oblivious to anyone they can't recognize, pedestrians blocking the sidewalk straining to see a real movie star, and a select number of said movie stars vomiting in the rear alley.