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The Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time #65 - Los Angeles Rides Itself

09.22.10

One or more persons during a certain period drop their usual motives for movement
and action, their relations, their work and leisure activities, and let themselves be
drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there.

It's a bike ride.

Started by user nathansnider and user theroyalacademy.

It meets every Wednesday at 8:30pm
at California Donuts #21.
We ride at 9pm.
We'll endeavor to return before the last red line trains (around midnight).

On this bike ride, you might expect:
- full moon picnics
- inconvenient passageways
- "cover" versions of other people's rides, performed with amateurish enthusiasm
- amateurish enthusiasm
- disorientation
- reorientation
- pool halls
- bowling alleys
- karaoke
- geocaching
- oblique strategies
- Oulipian constraints
- traffic median tea parties
- rivers that no longer exist
- smell tourism
- Couchwick v2.0

Furthermore:
- about 20 miles this week
- medium pace (perhaps not for beginners, certainly not a hustle)
- "average" hills (you can do it!)
- educational content!
- we're not in a rush; we don't need to run every light
- victory donuts!

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This week:

LOS ANGELES RIDES ITSELF


Los Angeles, it is said, is the most photographed city in the world. If you ride
around enough, you'll start to notice the mysterious temporary signs that
direct crew members to a movie location. If you ride through the right
neighborhoods, you'll see the long rows of white trucks that mark and fence
off a location shoot.

Los Angeles is where the relation between reality and representation gets
muddled. In a city where only a few buildings are more than a hundred years
old, where most traces of the city's history have been effaced, a place can
become a historic landmark because it was once a movie location. Some
buildings that look functional are permanent movie sets. Sometimes it works the
other way around: a building constructed as a movie set takes on an afterlife.

It may be the most photographed city in the world, but we might wonder if the
movies have ever really depicted Los Angeles. It's not easy: the city is big;
the image is small.

This is the city. Los Angeles, California. They make movies here. We ride here.

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