If you are in the right spot, you may catch a glimpse of Lara Bank's, The Portable Forest Miniature Parade Float driving up and down Sunset Boulevard between 1pm - 5pm on September 18th as a part of the Road Concert on Sunset Boulevard. This procession features a driver wearing a ghillie suit in a green toyota Echo labeled "The Portable Forest" towing a forest installation in a small green trailer guided by a moped driver in a bonsai evergreen motorcycle helmet.
Artist/Musician Niko Solorio will convert his Volkswagen Jetta into a VIDEO ART TAXI™. Niko will be making stops at various points along the LA ROAD CONCERT map to offer patrons a shuttle service to other LA ROAD CONCERT locations as they are treated to a hand selection of some of the finest video art works from Los Angeles and beyond. Artists whose work will be available for viewing inside the VIDEO ART TAXI™ include: Marnie Weber (L.A.), Trulee Grace Hall (L.A.), Zackary Drucker (L.A.), William Burgess (L.A.), Luci Lux (Berlin), Chris Peters (L.A.), Carola Schmidt (Berlin), Chad Dilley (L.A.), Joseph Imhauser (New York), Holly Woodlawn (L.A.), Jana Papenbrook (Berlin), Kristoffer Svenberg (Sweden) and many others. (Note: Look for a converted Volkswagen Jetta with the words VIDEO ART TAXI™ on it, or V.A.T.™)
Contemporary elite surfers in a video on gender and neo colonalism.
Tombstone Poem, a video poem by Chris Girard, was filmed from engravings on tombstones found at Hollywood Forever Cemetery (also known as Hollywood Memorial Park) in December 2010 and was tentatively entitled Forever, Forever, Forever due to the overwhelming number of words "forever" found on these tombstones. The video poem was subsequently collaged and sequenced into a poem based on the words found and filmed. The ambient sounds reflect the surprising quietness of the celebrity-filled cemetery in the middle of busy Los Angeles. The film is an exploration of the omnipresence of historical moments signified by tombstones and the words that provide their description.
A series of 3 videos of all the same titles. The short dance video of 7'45", the 16' which I adapted as a backdrop of a dance performance by choreographer Kuye Park during SOUNDWORLD, an evening of the musical works of Barry Schraeder, at REDCAT in 2006.
"googling west into the sunset" (2011) is a silent video of a screen capture of "street-viewing" down the entire length of sunset boulevard. Throughout the course of the video there are small coincidences encountered, and similar coincidences may happen for the viewer, as this person is watching and experiencing this street-view image while having the same street view. The radio of the car should be set by the driver. This person is having the closest sensation to the virtual drive as in the video.
Waiting, trapped, overweight, socially phobic and not knowing what to do with their days, these birds symptomize the modern man and the woeful consequences of his self-inflicted isolation.
Sunset Welcome Hug is a performance from noon to 6pm at the corner of W Sunset Blvd and N Figueroa St, the intersection where Cesar E Chavez becomes Sunset. The artist will stand at this first corner of Sunset Blvd in a plush and colorful costume of soft plastic leis, and welcome all pedestrians and automobile drivers to Sunset. By demarcating a threshold signified only by language (street signs and maps), Sunset Welcome Hug is an attempt to punctuate an otherwise smooth transition with a physical gesture of greeting and affection.
A map creates a myth of a space, a representation we all believe in by the way it is presented. Whether this reality is distorted or not, ceases to matter as we process the information as truth. Los Angeles has a history of boosterism, real estate agents used images of a city of white buildings, of endless orange groves. Sunset boulevard is known on maps to the stars houses, as an icon of a Hollywood dream, a road that is a place in and of itself. This map is a new boosterism, a relic of a moment that will forever change the way we see sunset boulevard. It shows what always was, the mountains and rivers and valleys, and what we powerfully have made upon past myths.
StarEyes agent is sincerely giving out carpool badges for the first 20 carpool vehicles.
No Simple Highway is a site-specific sculptural installation along Sunset Boulevard made up of debris and detritus gathered from stretches of the Los Angeles freeway. We will be working with the Los Angeles Department of Transportation prior to this event, gathering materials (i.e. debris etc.) through volunteered highway clean up. Throughout the duration of the event, we will repurpose the collected debris to construct sculptures and site-specific installations in hopes that people traveling the boulevard may experience a moment of visual enjoyment on their routine drive through the city, and may look at the detritus that lines the streets and freeways in a different light.
everyone is the expert at something. part of my life has become discovering and celebrating my friends' diverse expertise. embracing our knowledge and sharing our skills to create a new/progressive community is something i've become invested in. in this project, i am interested in giving people the venue to advertise their expertise or request knowledge on a subject through the most basic promotional technique i see, flyering. The basic outline of the flyer will exist, with areas to "fill in the blank," making the piece accessible, interactive, and ever-changing. The flyers can be posted in my area, and the author of each flyer can fill in as much or as little information as they would like to offer to the public about their expertise/request. or you can just take a blank flyer and think about all the options. any flyers left at my corner will be collected and made available digitally.
In this experimental installation, we would like to explore options for a public space that unites the comfort and shelter of the car, with the public social space of sidewalks, parks, and bus stops. Two identical Toyota Sienna minivans are parked directly across the street from each other at either ends of a pedestrian crosswalk. Both side doors are open on the vans, this creates a tunnel that pedestrians must pass through in order to cross the street. Inside of the vans there will be music, air-conditioning, and refreshments offered to the pedestrians. Through the creation of a temporary shared oasis at the boundary between sidewalk and street, we hope to propose an alternative function for the automobile, while simultaneously modifying the bodily experience of the pedestrian.
For the Sunset Boulevard Road Concert on September 18 I would like to use a fence along Sunset Boulevard to display an installation of flags, pennants and banners. This installation is inspired by the various parking lot merchants seen around Los Angeles (flag sellers, sports memorabilia sellers, blanket sellers) but the installation of the flags, pennants and banners would be extremely crowded and layered thus forming an unreadable, large sculptural form. The pennants, banners and flags themselves would be silk screened on felt and would display imagery and coloration of imagined sports teams. The imagery and coloration of these imagined teams would be inspired by several Californian spiritual movements. However, the imagery would be random enough to also recall the experience of seeing the a blanket seller with a group of blankets that seems almost poetically unrelated - Tigers, Sunsets, and Dora The Explorer together on one fence, for example. The installation would also have a performative element as there would be a “salesman” next to the installation trying to sell the individual pennants, flags and banners to the public, although there would be no reason for them to buy them, as they are not affiliated with any real sports team or school.
Performing the line between guilty memories and the gilded pleasures of wasted youth, Andrea Lambert will read from her chapbook, “G(u)ilt,” stories of San Francisco and Los Angeles at the margins. Whether to regret or celebrate, to remember or medicate into forgetfulness, these stories attempt coming to terms with the past in an uncertain present. I will be standing outside of The Gold Room, wearing black and gold and reading from a chapbook.
Two masked balladeers perform the endless battle between nostalgia and dissolution, sentimental warbling v. regenerative noise, white flight v. the scourge of specialty boutiques, butt plugs v. artisan up-cycled-rubber butt plugs.
Sound bath held within hut, participants invited inside for as long as they like to lay upon grass mats and absorbed into the tonal waves
Part sculpture, part functional street furniture, part library. Installed outside my apt. to survey the block I live on.
The Winners’ Intersection! A small group of similarly dressed individuals will be cheering on anyone who bikes or skates down either sides of the bike lanes. Using checkered flags, the group will cheer and howl for people coming down those lanes (or close to it). Statements such as “winner!” will be yelled. If people bike in groups, everyone who passes by will be declared the “Winner!” No one will be left out or behind.
Most people have grown accustomed to routines, which lead to daily expectations. However, the world is not so predictable. In a given day there are many circumstances for which we cannot control, which disrupt our routines, and defy our expectations. I will explore this by making a simple act impossible - the righthand turn. Throughout the day on Sunset, I will be "accidentally" dropping groceries in the middle of intersections so that traffic builds up while I pick up my dropped goods. Drivers will be made aware that an act which is supposed to save time (driving) can in fact become the opposite of what they had expected.
Since I started to walk dogs as a source of income, I'm out a lot. Because of this, I started to notice that LA has a decent amount of pine trees. You have to keep an eye out for them, but they are there. As I began walking more and more dogs, I started noticing an abundance of pine cones within various spots within LA. I've always thought pine cones are such a beautiful and elaborate piece of nature. So intricate and deliciously yummy of a shape. And the variation of cones that occurs between different trees is a treat to notice as I gather more and more.
Dressed by Gräu in a red white and black creation, Littell will ascend the Micheltorena Stairs and proceed to fall down them, repeating the action until it is no longer possible or indeed desirable.
Download mp3's and print out a map to participate in this 45 minute long stair walk by Stair walk enthusiast Matt MacFarland. Through a pre-recorded audio tour, MacFarland will guide you around the charming Silver Lake Circles, in addition to discussing his personal reasons for commencing the Stair Walks in the first place.
The Super Transparent Small Dog Disco is a Rat Terrier sized light
emporium for dogs and their owners to gather together. The merit of
the lightweight alightminarium' is to facilitate transparency. A petit
hall transparent of intentions, without illusions of who you will go
home with tonight or who your adorable dog Mila will attract at the
park. Unlike a plexi looking glass, you just see the probability that
certain places allow perfect strangers to share affection together. To
pat a dog together, since you prefer daylight instead of neon light.
Parks for dogs are the light emporium where strangers act kindly.
Italo playing.
3921 Sunset Boulevard is not where I grew up. Not exactly. Come by and I’ll tell you about where I did grow up and where I live now, if you'll tell me about where you grew up and where you live now.
Harold Abramowitz will be accepting submissions for the exciting publication, SUNSET.UNFO through Sept 15th, 2011. Please email no more than one paragraph of narrative responding to the phrase SUNSET.UNFO! at SUNSET.UNFO@gmail.com. Please include your name with the submission. Free Copies of SUNSET.UNFO! will be first distributed inside or near 3900 W. Sunset Blvd. on September 18th, 2011, and via US mail thereafter. SUNSET.UNFO! is published and edited by UNFO (Unauthorized Narrative Freedom Organization), an unofficial and temporary coalition of writers and editors, including Harold Abramowitz. Visit Harold Abramowitz inside or near 3900 W. Sunset and pick up a copy of the exciting publication, SUNSET.UNFO!
Rick Bahto is an artist working primarily with 8 mm film, photography, sound, and performance currently living in Los Angeles. Mark So's work explores ordinary situations through varied open theaters of perception and action, often proceeding through simple methods of recording/transcription/reading, as well as changing experiences of silence. Rather than predicate standard categories of realization, in So's pieces the horizons are not given but discovered, often resting in silent parallel to the normal ones, not yet activated. The scores are primarily text-based, rooted in a straightforward experience of language (reading)—its capacity to both hold a line and be struck by the often surprising dimensionality it provokes—and inclined towards a music fully astonished by this emergent nature, drawn directly by the prospects it offers, contemplating suitable action. Accordingly, his works often take place in anonymous, open environments with little or no fanfare, and realizations have ranged from instrumentals, spoken texts and various performed actions, to tapes, films, quasi-installations and other, more fanciful/obscure manifestations.
The Sanctified PerMissionaries of Signified Belief will take to the streets of Silver Lake reminding the Peoples of Sunset Junction that they have permission to engage in creative, semi-fictional, poly-religious endeavour.
A homeless guy on the side of the road, with a karaoke machine, and a sign saying "Will try and remember the words, for gifts."
Log onto www.operadelespacio.org or take a picture of the QR code posted on the posters to watch an interactive video, previously filmed by ODE in the space you are standing in. Then take a picture of yourself in the same location and post it to our facebook wall!
Site specific dance performance at the north east entrance of the Vermont/Sunset red line metro station accompanied by live band, Comfort Zone http://comfortzone.bandcamp.com Oz on Chapman stick, Breeze on drums and percussion. Dancers are Maggie Jones, Karla Flores, Lynnea Brown and Rebeca Hernandez. Here’s an intervention we did at the Mariachi Plaza metro station in Boyle Heights:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJiya9V_pNE
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheMiaOrozco?blend=17&ob=5
"As silence is chased from the world, powerful myths depart"
Women from all over the world have sent in their stained and discarded underwear for the PILE OF PANTIES. These panties will be piled haphazardly on the sidewalk for bystanders and people in cars to gawk at. The phenomenon of the panties will not be explained, and the artist will not be directly present with the panties, though the panties will be recorded from a distance with surveillance equipment. The ultimate fate of the panties is unknown. The piece is inspired by random clothing items found on the side of the road in L.A., discarded women, child abductions, has-been Hollywood starlets, the Holocaust, billboards in L.A., and Agent Provocateur lingerie.
Were you born in Los Angeles? Did you move here alone or with someone? Who was your first roommate? Your first friend? Your first phone number? The first intersection you used to locate yourself? Your first celebrity sighting? Your first meal? Your first bedroom? Your first car accident? Your first dream set here? What was the first distinctly L.A. sound you remember noticing? What about smell? Visual? Did the sight of palm trees excite you? What about now? What about the racket of helicopters, their spotlights searching out criminals? What about the scent of night-blooming jasmine? The jagged cut of mountains across the sky? Do you remember the smell of bleached laundry, always churning, from an apartment complex on Normandie? Did you walk by the Hollywood Dialysis Center and wonder if you’d ever have to use it? Did you revel in the trashy exoticism of the mall near Sunset and Western? Did you want to befriend, hypnotize or seduce at least one of those Scientologists in starched blue shirts and pants? What’s the dream of this city that you’ve yet to realize? I was born in Los Angeles at the corner of Normandie and Sunset on August 17, 2002, reared on Zankou Chicken and 7-11 cigarettes. What about you?
Artists Zoe Aja Moore and Yelena Zhelezov make 2 stops along the Sunset Boulevard to serenade 2 large architectural monuments with 2 or more small musical devices.
In this homage to Judy Chicago's "The Dinner Party", Chicago's Chinese-American doppelganger will render in chalk the glorious cunts of noteworthy women along a stretch of Sunset Boulevard parallel to the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Stefan Fähler is a german/greek artist from Berlin and founding member of the experimental rock group Château Laut. He specializes mostly on working with musicians from all over the world and taking care of their visual appearance.
All are welcome to come confess at Public Confessional. Confessions need not follow traditional models. People who choose to participate may act as confessor or penitent or both and can do so from either side of the confessional partition. Participants are welcome to share any information they choose. By creating a space, generally considered confidential and relocating it so that it stands exposed on a major city street, the confessional asks: what distinguishes public from private? What determines an intimate exchange? How does this inform the way we communicate in the world?
A collective group of young creative individuals: artist, musicians, skateboarders and photographers ranging from ages 16-21 from Los Angeles, California, displaying art from at least 5 different artists, and at least 4 different live dj sets.
Look to the skyline for the black and white sign that says Art Laboe Original Sound Entertainment.
A short text concerning archives, memory, and site.
Jim Skuldt operates (lifts, lights, and rotates) a subset of the 48-foot-diameter circular touring stage formerly belonging to Neil Diamond, featuring a modified assembly of 12,000 Watts of rotating aircraft landing lights to accompany a live musical set.
SUNSET ROAD CONCERT!!!!!!!!!!!!! PERFOMING SUNDAY SEPT 18 BETWEEN 1PM TO 5 PM
An interdisciplinary collaboration between a filmmaker/director, a musician, and an actor; this piece explores sexual anarchy and the misuse of money. My PIMP is a female talented saxophone player that plays music to her HOE who is in search for money and needs to make a buck. This piece welcomes interactivity and participation with the audience.
The concept behind Happy Hills is of a social issue unique, but not exclusive to, the Los Angeles area. I work as a male nanny in the Hollywood Hills and the title Happy Hills refers to the Disneyland lifestyle presented by those homeowners who seek to distance themselves from the ordinary people below. I am a witness to people from all walks of life commuting into these homes daily to maintain an ideal community that pretends to be far removed from the social ills plaguing the city when in fact, the community exists as an example of a great social divide. I am interested in exploring avenues of street art where a dialogue can arise between the people of our city. This Sunset Blvd. Roadshow presents the perfect opportunity to begin the dialogue with my images of the hardworking people who maintain these homes quietly and consistently. I propose to showcase the diligent, often thankless work by people who are not recognized by our country as citizens in order to question what exactly is an American, through a series of cardboard/wood cutouts and paintings displayed in various ways along the span of Sunset Blvd.
Laurel Canyon was once the home of rockstars such as Frank Zappa, Joni Mitchell, Graham Nash, and The Byrds. In the early 60's, rockers would come down from the canyon and hit the clubs on the Sunset Strip, then return to the canyon for whatever recreational deviancies they devised that night. After the riot on the Sunset Strip of 1966, the canyon became a refuge; a place to hide from the animus, hassles and danger of the city below. As with all things in Hollywood, any good tribute must be painted in broad strokes. I will play a silent cartoon guitar at Laurel Canyon and Sunset as a nod to the nearby Laugh Factory and in tribute to the scene pre-'66. -John P. Hogan
Re-cast a moment from one of four films set on Sunset Blvd: iconic film moments restaged in today’s transient world. We’re reconsidering the cinematic without the camera as the frame, thinking about the city as the context rather than the screen or the theater. No one can really act, but everyone can be a star.
West Hollywood City Councilmember John D'Amico will welcome people to the city of West Hollywood.
drummer corey fogel and saxophonist jonathan silberman perform a duo rendition of jazz guitarist James Blood Ulmer's blistering More Blood.
Two song-poems, “Some People Are Without Guitar” and “I Am Responsible”, will be delivered via phone call and interpreted live by Corey Marc Fogel on site. This is a road-trip, so all are welcome to participate, via voice or beat.
A cowboy and tai chi practitioner performing in front of the West Hollywood sign westbound on Sunset Blvd. A brief look at the conflation of east and west and how that meeting is confounded by mis-concepted romanticizations.
Pigeons are creatures of the city. Originally from the family of the rock dove, pigeons are commonly known as 'rats with wings'. I am exploring the creatures of the concrete-- to see what pigeons prefer to eat: seed or bread and if live pigeons will come congregate with stuffed pigeons. I will documenting the intermingling of these two species of birds by drawing sketches of the interaction. Passerbyers are welcome to contribute a pigeon drawing to post on the Traveling Blue Minivan Gallery walls!
We'll be by a cannabis collective thinking how CA. decriminalization is disappointingly dull. We'll wear wild pants. David Peel And the Lower East Side, The American Revolution. John Sinclair, Guitar Army. Abbie Hoffman, Woodstock Nation.
Red carousel with four seats, lights, and music. Turns at 1rpm.
I will be performing mixes of tunes I have composed and produced all using a laptop and MIDI intermediary. Once I've wrapped up that set, I'll segue it into simple break beats and bass, and perform five to seven spoken word poems to wrap up each set.
The Poetry Booth is an interactive public art installation & collaborative workspace for experiencing & making poems.
Text piece installed in sequential locations to be read from passing vehicles. Enclosure, masks, interiority externalized, imaginary structures on a grand scale, rhetoric, etc.
Artist / Photographer, Laura London will hold an on-site photo shoot - on location “in her signature style” using a traditional film and digital camera with 1-3 models and an assistant.
Dead Man’s Shuttle, is a small shuttle that takes riders along the deadly curve located at Sunset Boulevard and N. Whittier Drive, known as “Dead Man’s Curve.” Riders will be given a brief history on the curve and its influence upon Hollywood celebrities, Los Angeles, and popular culture, before they climb into Dead Man’s Shuttle and ride along the deadly curve. Throwing caution to the wind with each ride and playing the odds with the hope that the fury of Sunset Boulevard’s Dead Man’s Curve will not strike.
Hanjo Ichijo is an audience participatory project created by Michiko Yao and Juna Amano. At
the project location: Will Rogers Memorial park in Beverly Hills, participants will be invited to
interact as instructed within a space that is indicated by a tatami-size red fabric on the ground.
Several of these spaces will be in the park with different instructions.
Musicians with a score to settle
I will stand dressed in old west style-clothing with a large map of the internet, labeled with "ghost towns": old-fashioned, abandoned websites that have not been updated or likely even thought about for years, but which still remain to be seen by those who might stumble onto them. I will also be distributing maps with included urls to anyone who stops by my location, so that they can explore the ghost towns on their own.
I will be positioned outside of WeHo hot-spot Trousdale Lounge standing next to a life-size cutout that you can get your photo taken next to. If the stars are aligned, concert goers may also be serenaded with a hip-hop sound portrait compliments of Dr. Geek.
After traveling almost the entire length of Sunset Blvd this installation gives visitors the chance to duck under a shroud and catch a random glimpse of traveling down a road in Iran. The clips are not long and provide a short yet intense experience that re-situates the viewer in their immediate surroundings.
This interactive piece encourages concert participants to collaborate long-distance with the artist in celebrating the stealth, disembodied history one of West Sunset's forgotten cultural heritage sites. The downloadable content associated with this locale will chronicle and reclaim the fuzzy, anecdotal, infamous, and tangental history of this transcendent space (alternately understood as a chain supermarket), suggest meaningful interpretive activities, and provide instructions for those who wish to do a site-specific historic reenactment as part of their drive through the Palisades along Sunset.
Please download the track located at: http://soundcloud.com/wamby/sunset. When you begin to get to the end of Sunset (around Palisades Dr.), start the track. If you've gotten to the end of Sunset by car, roll down your windows and play the track loudly. Get as close to the ocean as you can (parking might be difficult). If you've gotten to the end of Sunset by some other method, find a way to play the music out-loud if possible. If you have no speakers, listen to the sounds on headphones. Look and listen for other ocean sounds from cars and people on the beach, in the parking lot, or on the street.
A big ass brass band. Stop Look and Listen!
increasingly lavish versions of ravel's bolero
In homage to the Malibu beach party films of the 1960s, we will have beach-side, fun-loving, go-go crazy dance party. However, times are different and we are not the carefree teens of the 60s. Therefore, our dance party will involve rituals and dance moves to invoke great wealth and abundance. The 60s movies always featured the latest dances, which we acknowledge by inviting participants to invent new dance moves writing them on cards to add to our collection of money-dance rituals. (or RICH-uals!)
I will be taking nude portraits of anyone with a body on Sunset near the beach at dusk . abandon your shame . celebrate yourself! You are perfect exactly how you are! look for me and my assistance with white sheets. text me for exact location: 323-839-5589 drive through the Strip then Strip.
I am making a pilgrimage from my house to my ex lover's house, mostly down Sunset. On this pilgrimage I will carry a typewriter and a bench in a wagon. I will set up my typing station at various locations along Sunset, recording memories with my ex, as well as thoughts and emotions pertaining to those memories, at each location. Passersby will be encouraged to tear off already-typed-on paper from the back of the typewriter and thereby partake of my heartbreak, as with communion, consuming pieces of the body of my memories.
Time Travel Arcade is a mobile interactive art-cade. The studio services one or two persons on a short "nostalgic journey" streetside via a painted installation, props and costuming. SUGGESTED: $6 per visit for Solo Traverse (one child under 6 years age rides free with adult) $10 per visit for Companion Sojourn Limit of 2 persons serviced per visit. Included in each visit: Up to 5 minutes journey to Forgotten Points in Time with props and costumes, Antique Camera Portrait Service, and one Photographic Travel souvenir (property of TTA, but freely available to participants) for ETERNITY!
Stephen Van Dyck is wearing my Danish phone number on the back of his shirt as he traverses Sunset Boulevard on a motorcycle.
Pointing West is part of an on-going collaboration between Disselkoen and Pescador. Playing with an arrow symbol they will cover the Road Concert length with directional signs, from the beginning of Sunset Boulevard to the Pacific Ocean. Paul Pescador is interested in small-scale actions and gestures that manifests in the form of photographic objects, performance events, and curated exhibitions. Through the use of event-based situations Alexis Disselkoen strives to connect contemporary issues of identity to inform art production, viewership and participation. This is will be their seventh project working together.
on friday night. im going to go post it bombing. for your road concert.
We will be walking the length of Sunset Blvd beginning at
daybreak. Documentation will be produced and then rebroadcast on
KCHUNG Radio.
A limited collection of self-improvement books will be provided in a booth for those brave enough to read self-help in a public space. Is it a badge of shame or a proudly displayed banner to admit that you are curious for someone else’s answers? The library is open for the viewer’s perusal and guests are invited to participate in Self-help Yourself: "Karaoke Therapy.” Hoping to tap into the “feel good” aspects of Karaoke and drawing on Beuys’s therapeutic conception of performance art, we have brought self-administered therapy into a public-performative arena to create “Karaoke Therapy.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmEJQa2hs1w
As an artist living in L.A I see the stress of the busy streets and crowed sidewalks everyday. My art pieces reflect the impact the transit system has on our day to day lives. As you walk through Sunset today I want you to keep your eyes peeled for a character waiting at a bus stop or lamp post. Find them all and feel the impact.
Look for a push cart or two of planted vegetables and seedlings along the sidewalk areas (specific area as soon as i assess!) of the boulevard. We will give away seedlings, talk of meaningful public gathering places, the meaning of home and place, gardening tips, and whatever else comes up...
Places to Shit is a guide to help you answer nature's call on Sunset Blvd. Toilets of varying degrees of publicness are mapped and coded.
A series of Sunset Boulevard facts and stories, personal and relayed. Pretend you're on a Hollywood tour or listening to an audio-only DVD commentary for a famous street instead of a movie.
According to Google Maps’ most optimistic estimates, a traversal of
the complete extent of Los Angeles’ Sunset Boulevard—with no stops
included—requires 54 minutes, or 3,240 seconds, of driving time. The
total length of Sunset Boulevard thus traversed is 24 miles.
Like all well-travelled throughfares, Sunset Boulevard contains an audacious ethos of entertainment and myth for tourists and residents alike, but few contain such mammoth hyperbole as a shop- ping center daring to call itself the “Crossroads of the World.” What of this concourse seems to fascinate us so? How can the recurring darkness of the Sunset Strip (from the O.D. of River Phoenix to Hugh Grant’s prostitute purchases) meld with the utter calm of meditators at the Lake Shrine Temple in Pacific Palisades?
Download here.
This interactive piece encourages concert participants to collaborate long-distance with the artist in celebrating the stealth, disembodied history one of West Sunset's forgotten cultural heritage sites. The downloadable content associated with this locale will chronicle and reclaim the fuzzy, anecdotal, infamous, and tangental history of this transcendent space (alternately understood as a chain supermarket), suggest meaningful interpretive activities, and provide instructions for those who wish to do a site-specific historic reenactment as part of their drive through the Palisades along Sunset.
Use your smartphone to Find, Record and Submit the 24 audio samples on the Scavenger Hunt
List and win maybe a gift certificate to Ameoba Music (the ultimate audio experience on Sunset
Boulevard!) Points given for creative interpretation, diversity of audio samples and completion.
Please pick up your phone right now and call (530) 564-0099.
Please download the track located at: http://soundcloud.com/wamby/sunset. When you begin to get to the end of Sunset (around Palisades Dr.), start the track. If you've gotten to the end of Sunset by car, roll down your windows and play the track loudly. Get as close to the ocean as you can (parking might be difficult). If you've gotten to the end of Sunset by some other method, find a way to play the music out-loud if possible. If you have no speakers, listen to the sounds on headphones. Look and listen for other ocean sounds from cars and people on the beach, in the parking lot, or on the street.
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