#venice blvd

[oldshowbiz]

When people talk about the few 24 Hour restaurants remaining in Los Angeles, nobody ever mentions this place.

For a good reason.

It sucks.

[damn-these-eyes]

venice blvd

[architectureforsuicides]

Heat (Michael Mann, 1995) I-10 / Santa Monica Fwy Acces/Exit Ramps Los Angeles, California (USA) Bridge over Venice Blvd Type: beam bridge.

[hollyweirdangeleno]

[westside-historic]

Helms Bakery Christmas Card, Culver City, from the 1940s. Daily at your door.

[6006thave]

Art by IG @starfightera

[gods-favorite-person]

[midvalestreet-blog]

While lost on one of my many miss-navigation detours, I spotted this building with vintage neon signs off of Venice Blvd. The place reminded me of a paper I did in college about light as a new medium of art. In the paper, I talked about how the modern age is becoming more interactive with light, learning to manipulate it to shape and define space or vis-versa. Billboards, particularly neon billboards, were essential examples of what my topic was about. So, when I saw these signs on the outside of the build, I had to stop and investigate. The business is called “signmakers.” Unfortunately, the physical location does not offer much to see besides what's in the picture, but if you go to their website www.signmakers.com, there are plenty of examples of their work. What you can see from their installations is an aesthetic appeal applied to the building or landscape where their signs are installed. The flat and often bland surfaces of the businesses are given definition by their sign’s presence. Function and form combine in these spaces to recreate geography.