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Filmmaker Foiled!

Posted By Cutter On April 23, 2008 @ 11:00 am In Biking in LA, East Side, Filmmaking/Filmmakers, LA | Comments Disabled

I’ve spent the last six months working on a short film about bicycles, and part of the production involves shooting a bicycle chase in and around the eastern neighborhoods of Downtown Los Angeles. Over the course of my scouting, I’ve come across some truly awesome locations.

Here are two of them (photos by me):

4th_st.jpg [1] grand.jpg [2]

At left, 4th St bridge over the LA River, looking west.  And at right, the street below Grand, in Downtown (as seen in The Terminator and Repo Man).

We’re also shooting in Chinatown and in Boyle Heights. One of the potential locations included the beautiful Mariachi Square, but after scouting in that neighborhood I discovered that the Square is under construction and every street in a 1-block radius has been closed to through traffic.

Foiled!

So the question I put to you, faithful readers is this: What are some of the lesser known but no less interesting and distinctive East La/Boyle Heights/Downtown landmarks that might lend themselves to being photographed?

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  3. No entity without identity [5]
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  5. Montecito Heights Photoblogging: "Above the City" [7]

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[1] Image: http://img.metblogs.com/la/files/2008/04/4th_st.jpg

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[3] LA Times Tries to Define Los Angeles: http://la.metblogs.com/2009/02/19/la-times-tries-to-define-los-angeles/

[4] At the Hammer: Filmmaker Kenneth Anger on Aleister Crowley: http://la.metblogs.com/2009/03/18/do-you-talk-to-the-dead/

[5] No entity without identity: http://la.metblogs.com/2009/06/28/no-entity-without-identity/

[6] Filmmaker makes Los Angeles stand still by speeding it up: http://la.metblogs.com/2009/04/20/filmmaker-makes-los-angeles-stand-still-by-speeding-it-up/

[7] Montecito Heights Photoblogging: "Above the City": http://la.metblogs.com/2009/05/03/montecit-heights-photobloggin-above-the-city/

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