Another day of rain in the SFV. Delightful, yes, but a bit eerie, considering the years of drought we’ve suffered. The clouds have been intense this month, never more so than this afternoon. Take a look.
[ABOUT LASKY LIGHTING: Jesse Lasky was one of Hollywood’s earliest pioneers; he rented a barn at Selma and Vine to make pictures with Adolph Zukor’s company, Famous Players in Famous Plays. The studio became Famous Players-Lasky, which soon afterwards was known as Paramount Pictures. But before he was a moghul, Lasky was a producer, and his silent pictures were famous for their sophisticated and dramatic lighting, including splashing side-ways light across the scene to get maximum shadows that looked dynamite on black-and-white film. Lasky got the genius credit, but the effect came from his young director-discovery, Cecil B. DeMille, who got his training in theatrical lighting working with David Belasco. Belasco was Broadway’s great artist-impressario, the undisputed master of theatrical emotion and stage effects.]
The Valley Village View 
at first I thought this said Lasky Lightning, considering that amazing cloud formation. I’m working on a show where the DP has been asking for a Lightning effect, with arcs crossing the sky in front of the fully lit Bay Bridge, ala Frankenstein. I obviously have lightning on my mind (but sadly not in a bottle). Cool Hwood history.
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When you come down next we’ll go to the Lasky Barn, on Highland across from the Bowl.
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