Photos from the L.A. Blue Line Train- part#2

 Palm trees over the hood.  Near Watts, I think.

 Not straight outta it, just passing through.  There are brand new, quite nice looking, apartments in Compton, right next to the train.  Looks a lot different than old rap videos from the train.

 Tiled mural at the Compton train station.

 Used to be a church.  Apparently God moved out a while back.  Downtown L.A..

 High end condo tower in the background, homeless person tarped domecile in the foreground.  Both end of the spectrum.

 The new towers going up in downtown.

I got a better shot of the  Kawhi Leonard mural on the way back up there New Year's Eve.  Photos by me, Steve Emig

Photos from the L.A. Blue Line Train-part 1

With the offer of a room to stay in in Newport Beach, and the end of the month/year/decade coming up, I needed to move my small amount of stuff to Newport.  This involved two trips up and back on buses and trains.  The Red Line and Blue Line trains, and two buses in Long Beach and Orange County.  So I packed the backpack, a shopping bag, and skateboard decks (for art), and made the trek the two days before the New Year.    So here's me looking stupid on the Blue Line train. 

 Colored leaves, through the train window.  Downtown L.A.

Not Glen Plake.  Train rider with a red Mohawk.  7th & Metro station under L.A.

 New skyscrapers going up, downtown L.A.

Kawhi Leonard mural, heading for the hoop.

 L.A. skyline from the Blu Line.

Mural in South Central L.A. area.  Photos by me, Steve Emig.

Street life photos from the last year or so...

 Top, on a super hot day in Richmond, Virginia last summer, I walked around a little wall, and found a ledge to sit on.  then I saw the sign behind me.  In front of Richmond Public Library downtown.  Just above, a free stocking cap from the little business Against Fake Love, at the gallery/co-op I hung out at a few times.  Below, Amish Tuff Wheel (BMXers get it), in Richmond's Shockhoe Bottom district.

 Waiting for the morning bus, heading to breakfast and blogging at McDonald's, after a half mile walk from where I slept, under the I-95 bridge, Manchester district, Richmond, VA. 

 Vulture.  There were sometimes a hundred of these guys (and gals) by the Manchester Bridge in the morning.  Richmond, Virginia, spring 2019.

 Hollywood Boulevard, where I setup to try and sell my artwork.  Fall 2019.  Hollywood & Highland, on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Recent photos of Hollywood - 12/22/2019