These are some photos from about a week ago. I just remembered them haha.

It's the CBS building!

Los Angeles from afar


So my purse finally broke :( I have to find a replacement still, but this is no easy task in LA (lots of stores, but no good purses I can afford...man I miss TN lol).

This is the last house I stayed at near Larchmont Village. Great family, and a great location what more can you ask for?

There's a bakery on Larchmont called Brumbs and they have awesome black and white cookies.

I took Josh to my little LA spot and he got the grasshopper cupcake. Kiera had to work :(

A sign in the bathroom of the theatre...I thought it was funny :)

Josh, Megan, and I went to 3rd st. Promenade (I'm slowly collecting adventures from all over the city) in Santa Monica. There's a cool place there that sells a millions different types of beer. I got the Jewish beer :)

Then Josh and I went out to the Santa Monica Pier to check it out and they had a small carnival!

Bekah sent me a package!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It had a ton of small cereal boxes, some sour patch kids, and a mix cd that rocks :) I actually munched on some honey combs earlier today mmmmm.

I have a video of some indian dancing out at the Grove, but it wouldn't load. I'll try it again later, but I need to go to bed because I have work at 9 in the morning in Orange.

It's Been a While

It's been a while and my Mother and Colin were whining, so I decided to do an update. It's been a week full of long days,late nights, but it's been good. Leigh (the lighting designer I'm working with) and I overhauled dimmer beach the other day and it looks so beautiful now compared to the trainwreck it was before (I love me some organization and labeling).

I've moved into another place and have it all to myself which is nice. Below is just one of the decorating gems :) The woman who lives here is an artist, she paints and sculpts.

I went to Hollywood Forever this afternoon. This is the place where a ton of famous people are burried (i.e. Charlie Chaplain) as well as a giant jewish population. Here are some photos of the experience.

Here's some pictures of the mausoleum.




Anyway, I don't have to go into work until noon tomorrow, so I've checked to be sure I'm parked on the right side of the road (if you don't you get a $60 ticket). We are almost in previews for Tree Fall so we only have some notes left to reconcile, then I'm off to Yorba Linda for a few days :)

Oh! I almost forgot, on my way to work the other night my street was blocked by a double decker bus with about 50 people in and around it. They were all going between the bus and the house with loud music and lots of Woooo!-ing. I missed the party bus :( oh well, this is LA I'm sure there will be another strange something to take in soon.

4th of July!!

I hope everyone had a great 4th of July (even though the firework on Nashville were cancelled I'm sure you all found some fun things to do). As for me I went to Apple Valley with with the crew and watched the fireworks. It takes 1 1/2 hours to reach this place and google maps said it was in the middle of an in intersection with a dirt road (being from TN I didn't find it too strange to have to go off the beaten path, but whatever). Here's an overview of the event at the beginning, alot more people came later.

All the usual food was present; funnel cakes, hot dogs, shaved ice...mmmm. I got a briskett sandwich, but they were sneaky and put cole slaw on it (those who know me know that I don't do mayonnaise), but it was still tastey. There were children running around with brightly colored lips from the ice cones which was cute. Later on they all got light sabres and headbands that glow in the dark, yeah I was jealous. Anyway

Here's Kiera Voelker staring off into the crowd (dramatic profile shot). Just after this she commented on how this would be her first 4th without fireflies :( so we decided to check the trusty old Iphone for a firefly app. and behold!

If you can see the little green dots on the screen those are the fireflies! There really is an app for everything! Apparently fireflies never made it over the rockies :(

Then there were Firemen!!

I couldn't help it :) they had three trucks there to spray water in the air for artificial rain. They also dye the water red white and blue (not so cool since it also dyes your clothes, but whatever). Then...

Yep, that's a fire right next door, so they packed up and headed over...with the water still dyed :) we made jokes about turning a white house blue or red and laughed about it for a while. They returned in about half an hour, but we had gotten bored and headed back to our tent.

Earlier we had seen a booth that you could win fish at! You had to get a ping pong ball into this tiny fishbowl, but the girls were surprisingly good at it (I think beer pong has readied them for this moment). Here's the first fish, won by Jamie!

Meet Jackson! Kiera won 4 fishies, but she gave me one (yes mama I have a fish now). Here's Dennis Barack.

He's a sweety :)

We're going out in a minute to get them all bowls and food, so I'll just put up some other random photos from the evening.

The leaning tree (Megan)

Down stage part of the rig

The water-mellon

yummmm

The back half of the rig. They had this strange blue/green gel that was doing nothing for the performer's skin, I liked it as back light though.

The lemon mobile!!!

We'll call this Monday-Wednesday

Ok, so this is the second time I've had to write this post because my computer is being a jerk. Anyway, the basics of the story are that I had an internship in Toronto, but the Canadian government thwarted my plans and denied me a work permit. BUT because I have awesome friends I had another internship lined up within 24 hours of losing the first, but this time in Los Angeles, California. I am the lighting intern for The Rogue Machine Theatre which is in its second season and produces new works. I am staying with an awesome family for about 3 weeks and then will move into another lady's house to take care of her 2 dogs (or children as she calls them) while she is away. Since most of you may have seen the photos on facebook I'll start with this past Monday night and work from there.

I went with Josh and Kiera Voelker to Room5 to watch Bella Ruse (Joseph Barker's band) play. There were about 5 other artists who improved songs together and every so often paid tribute to Michael Jackson by playing a song of his in their own styles. Needless to say this concert was pretty much amazing and I think I have a Monday night ritual now. After the show we (Me, The Voelker's, and Bella Ruse) went to eat at Canter's, a famous Jewish deli where they serve free pickles :) (they used to have phones at all of the booths so that producers could work while they ate). We got to talking about stupid bets and somehow ended up betting Kay (lead singer of Bella Ruse) $5 and a piece of gum (and eventually the check) to drink about half a cup of melted butter...which she did like a champ. I have a video of it, but if it doesn't load here I'll post it on facebook, so check it out because it's worth it. Then we said our goodbyes and parted ways and thus was the end of Monday night.

Tuesday I went into work and did the maintenance on the gear we struck from the previous show. I ran into some... we'll call them issues with a few (and by a few I mean 1/2 of) the fixtures. Brace yourself,

It's a bit blurry and for those of you not familiar with wiring that is indeed the "hot" wire tied into the "ground" of the plug...yeah *shakes head*, but it gets even better...

Same plug, this is now the "Ground" wire (notice the thin strip of green swirling around it) tied into the "neutral". which only leaves room for the "neutral" wire to have been tied into the "hot"...

After this I thought "ok we're through the worst, I mean what else could be done to these things?" (Tip: never believe that something can't get worse because it will).

I had to pry this connector apart because it was melted together (btw, melted plastic stinks!). I have nothing else to say about this, I fixed it and said a small prayer for the mangled conector and let it R.I.P. in the garbage

I'm in the process of organizing what I have dubbed the "Electrics Loft" I find that if I give something a name I become slightly more attetched to it. Here is the work in progress...

It needs some pipes, a few places to hang the cable, maybe a poster or two and it'll be beautiful! Here's the "big" space

Anyway, time to move on to today! I woke up with a swollen eye :(

it hurts like a mug, so I tried to sleep it off which didn't work. After a while I decided to go to The Grove and the Farmer's Market on 3rd and Fairfax to maybe get some sun. I ate luch at the Mexican place called Loteria! reccomended by the youngest son of the family (16) I'm staying with (he wants to be a chef when he grows up).

The food was delicious! and that is papaya juice to the left.

I wandered around The Grove and took pictures of the water displays...

Then I went to see Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs in the theatre behind the water (it was pretty good). And now I am back in my room with my swollen eye dreaming about a black and white cookie from Crumb and about to watch yet another episode of 30Rock...oh yeah and work in the morning :) Sorry for the long post, but I had to catch up to today.

P.S. Celebrity spotting! I saw this guy--->

In Barnes and Noble. For those of you who don't know,

he plays Van on the sitcom Reba :)