#los angeles bridges

[oldshowbiz]

Cold Steel (1987) starring Sharon Stone and Jonathan Banks.

#sharon stone #jonathan banks #liquor store #los angeles bridges #hollywood blvd #cahuenga

[danneroni]

West Coast Dreamin' 🚘🌈💤

#furry art #anthro #furry #rainbowcore #digital painting #digital art #west coast #los angeles #hollywood #golden gate bridge #mt rainier #space needle #seattle #reno nevada #las vegas #road trip #kidcore #clowncore #rainbow art #nostalgiacore #race car bed #toycore

[ysociety]

#los angeles #fujifilm #xt2 #street photography #photographers on tumblr #artists on tumblr #curators on tumblr #neon #glow #teal #blue #red #orange #downtown #night #rain #original photographers #6th street #bridge

[bitter69uk]

Recently watched: psychological thriller The Morning After (1986). Tagline: “Last night she drank to forget. Today she woke up to a murder. Is he her last hope or the last man she should trust?” Dir: Sidney Lumet.

On Thanksgiving morning, washed-up, middle-aged alcoholic actress Viveca Van Loren (Jane Fonda) awakens with a thunderous hangover in an unfamiliar bedroom lying next to an unfamiliar man. (Her first line of dialogue: “What the fuck?”). She was black-out drunk and has zero recollection of the night before. Understandably, Viveca panics when she realizes her bed-mate is a corpse – with a bloody knife protruding from his chest! Is someone trying to frame her for his murder? Is she in danger? Turner Kendall (Jeff Bridges), a sympathetic ex-cop with problems of his own, seemingly offers Viveca a lifeline – and maybe a chance for redemption.

I hadn’t revisited The Morning After (currently streaming for free on YouTube) in many years. I love its atmospheric view of the underbelly of Los Angeles and Viveca’s life on the fringes of show business. (Befitting a fallen glamour girl, she resides in a frou-frou dusty rose apartment in a pink stucco Art Deco building). It probably succeeds best as a downbeat character study of the tentative budding romance between the unlikely duo of Viveca and Turner. Fonda slays, but it would be interesting to see how her peers Tuesday Weld or Faye Dunaway would interpret Viveca (in her broader moments, Fonda sometimes seems to be doing a Dunaway impersonation). And with a few minor tweaks it’s easy to imagine The Morning After making a great woman-in-peril noir vehicle for Crawford, Stanwyck or Davis in the 1950s (it recalls Davis as an ageing actress on the skids in The Star). The cast includes Raul Julia, Diane Salinger (Simone from Pee-wee’s Big Adventure!) and a fleeting appearance from an unknown young Kathy Bates. One nice detail: Viveca relies on loyal gay confidantes for support. On the lam and needing a change of clothes, she visits a drag queen friend. Before that, a sympathetic gay bartender (played by Bruce Vilanch!) comps her a free drink. Best exchange: Alex: “I was being groomed to be the next Vera Miles.” Turner: “Who?” Alex: “See! I was getting ready to replace somebody the public didn't even know was missing!”

#the morning after #jane fonda #jeff bridges #sidney lumet #psychological thriller #1980s thriller #bruce vilanch #los angeles #lobotomy room

[askvectorprime]

Dear, Vector Prime.

Sideswipe, who was supposed to have died in the battle on Earth in IDWSG, has come back to life as new body with partner. Could you tell us what happened to him?

Dear Sideswipe Searcher,

Fresh from their victory over Megatron, the maniacal Optimus Prime and his army of Autobots rampaged across the planet, looting whatever resources they could find and funneling them into the construction of an Ark II that would take them home to Cybertron. Their rampage was thorough; within a matter of months, the victorious Autobots had obliterated most major population centers and crushed the remnants of the world’s various armed forces—as they launched the Ark, Prime gave the order to salt the earth by having Blaster hack into the planet’s various defense systems and authorize the indiscriminate launch of hundreds of intercontinental ballistic missiles.

Many weeks later, Megatron awoke, seemingly the last sentient being on Earth. As the critically damaged Decepticon limped through the graveyard that had once been Los Angeles, he discovered that the Autobots had simply left their dead and dying to rust where’d they’d fallen. Megatron was instinctually repulsed by the notion of desecrating the dead, but realized that he needed repairs—and that the bodies of his former friends and enemies might be the only way to source Cybertronian parts until he could make it offworld. As Megatron lifted the body of one such downed Autobot, whispering a brief apology for what he was about to do, he suddenly found a pair of hands wrapped around his neck! As it turned out, Sideswipe had also survived the battle of Los Angeles, but had been abandoned by his comrades and left to die—even his spark-brother Sunstreaker had turned his back on his critically wounded sibling, with a parting sneer that Sideswipe had always been the ugly one.

Initially, Sideswipe wanted nothing more than to return to Cybertron and exact brutal revenge on everyone who’d abandoned him; in his current condition he could barely stand, let alone fight his way across millions of miles of interplanetary space back to Cybertron. After salvaging whatever they could from the battlefield to patch themselves up, the pair decamped to the nearby city of San Francisco, where they established a base camp on the burned out remains of the Golden Gate Bridge. Not long after, they discovered a Cybertronian Decepticon warship and the prone body of a tiny stasis-locked Decepticon named Whisper. It didn’t take much energon to jump-start Whisper’s systems, and the three set about slowly repairing the downed warship over a period of many months. As they worked, Megatron and Sideswipe had a long time to reflect on their past mistakes and come to some kind of understanding—in time, even Sideswipe’s once-legendary bloodlust faded into a resolute determination to atone for his past misdeeds.

However, when the time came to finally launch the ship, Sideswipe made a shocking discovery—a small group of human survivors had established a small village on the outskirts of the city. It quickly became clear that they would not survive on their own—they would need access to Cybertronian technology and someone with the knowledge of how to properly use it. That night, by the feeble light of the human’s campfire, Sideswipe told Megatron that he should go on without them, and wished him luck in his mission to rebuild the Decepticons.  Touched by the gesture, Megatron bade his new friend farewell—but not without first declaring him an honorary Decepticon. 

The next morning, as Sideswipe leaned back on the cracked asphalt of the Golden Gate Bridge and watched as Megatron’s jury-rigged vessel lifted into the air, he took a moment to carve a new insignia on his chest, beneath the ugly gash that now ran through his old Autobot symbol… then turned back to the pale, haggard humans who looked to him as their new leader and protector, and set to work.

#ask vector prime #transformers #maccadam #shattered glass #sideswipe #optimus prime #ark ii #blaster #megatron #los angeles #sunstreaker #san francisco #golden gate bridge #whisper #barricade643sg

[knowxhope]

You got it, dude 👍🏽

#knowxhope #me #los angeles #tattoo #tattoos #fit #fitness #beard #bearded #bodybuilding #san francisco #San Fran #san fransisco 49ers #golden gate bridge #golden gate #gold coast #grammys #doc martens #dodge challenger #dodge #challenger #beach #pacific ocean

[apokrify]

#landback #indigenous peoples day #6th street bridge #6th street viaduct #los angeles #indigenous

[awidevastdominion]

#6th Street viaduct #bridges #Los Angeles

[viridian-pickle]

#dark and moody #moody aesthetic #foggy #spooky #engineering #bridge #suspension bridge #golden gate bridge #into the unknown #landmark #la #los angeles

[materialismo-dialectico]

Virtual Light - Wiliam Gibson (Bantam Spectra, 1993)

The millennium has come and gone, leaving in its wake only stunned survivors. In Los Angeles, Berry Rydell is a former armed-response rentacop now working  for a bounty hunter. Chevette Washington is a  bicycle messenger turned pickpocket who impulsively  snatches a pair of innocent-looking sunglasses. But  these are no ordinary shades. What you can see  through these high-tech specs can make you rich—or  get you killed. Now Berry and Chevette are on the  run, zeroing in on the digitalized heart of  DatAmerica, where pure information is the greatest high.  And a mind can be a terrible thing to crash. . . . 

#virtual ligth #science fiction #william gibson #cyberpunk #sprawl #virtual reality #VR #Los Angeles #data #corporation #capitalism #the bridge trilogy #dystopia

[oldshowbiz]

The LA River - the most cinematic of all industrial looking areas

#la river #los angeles bridges #filming location

[htfphoto]

low rider on 6th street bridge.

l.a.

my instant gram.

#lowrider #6th street bridge #los angeles #skyline #medium format #vintage #lifestyle and culture #object and still #urban #hasselblad 500cm #phaseonep25 #hasselblad #popping wheelies

[eupat]

#porsche 911 #Porsche #911 #magnus walker #urban outlaw #los angeles #bridge

[helena-bottom-farter]

1898 vs 2022 – Looking NW showing at the Pedestrian Bridge (over PCH, CA-1) that connects the Palisades, at the end of Arizona Ave, to the beach right where the original 1875-built 99 Steps were located.

#vintage los angeles #vintage photography #black and white photography #then and now #google maps #1898 #2022 #pacific coast highway #99 steps #bridge #beach #pacific palisades #santa monica

[aloindicaclouds]

PCH Ave Bridge

#PCH #santa monica #los angeles #LA #bridge #views #happy #lights #photography #good vibes #fun

[fixedgearbacon]

Leap day on 1st Street bridge, Feb 29th, 2024

#los angeles #california #photography #google pixel #tybg #fyp #photos #my photos #pictures of la #dtla #dtlaphotography #boyle heights #fire #homeless #houselessness #sad times #1st street bridge