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Euphoria: Collaboration
First time I’ve had my credit appear over a location I scouted, so that final shot in Euphoria was pretty special. But I get uneasy revealing the locations I’ve found for shows, because people take that to mean you were “responsible” for them. Which couldn’t be less true! Filmmaking is a collaborative art, and NONE…
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Perfect Wall
One of my favorite walls in LA is at the Hollywood Rec Center Pool. PERFECT shade of aqua-teal, love the three bubble-like windows, the geometric minimalism… Just exquisite.
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Searching for the Backrooms
Backrooms is opening this weekend, and it’s awesome to see people so excited about a movie for its location! It also gives me an excuse to talk about the strange time when a bunch of BR fans became convinced I’d actually visited the original backrooms myself… In 2011, I posted an article about touring NYC’s…
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Fantasyland
Sometimes, I wonder what percentage of LA is actually just a leftover movie set. For example, if you go up to Mentryville State Park, you’ll see a number of historic buildings from its days as a 19th-century oil town, like a one-room schoolhouse, barns, a derrick… And this small cottage, built for the 1985 Disney…