New Multi-Billion Light-Up Phallus

Photo by Phil on ghetto safari

Probably not the way to love L.A.  I enjoyed this view on my walk to lunch (8pm is not an unusual lunch time for stage-hands) from the L.A. Auto Show load-in at the Convention Center.  There was a Lakers' game, and the city pays to rent big portable halide lights for all the nearby underpasses, for the safety of pedestrians entering and exiting the Staples Center and Convention areas.  The quality of light is like, Nuclear Zombie Hospital, except way brighter, way more life-sucking, and much much less funny.  These kinds of metal halides are built to cover areas up to 7 1/2 acres - so imagine one under the bridge across from your house next to the freeway.  Whatever is keeping those people from becoming murder incarnate is probably killing them.

The "1.5 ft" is the space between the apartment building and the Southbound 110 Freeway.