Venice

Prank, as well as the, I guess you can say, legendary French prankster, Remy Gillard, They both hit over 1.5 billion views.

In fact, Prank vs. Prank's real-life Spider-Man swinging around Venice Beach was seen by over 40 million people, which was a huge number back in that era of YouTube.

But then, like most things, after 2016, it began to fly off the rails.

We saw the rise of short-form videos using intense shock content to capture ever-decreasing attention spans, like this dog-in-a-bag prank that got half a billion views.

During the folk boom of the early 60s, while Johnny Come Lately's Left, Right, and Center were writing train songs, and that includes his future bandmate Dino Valenti, this guy actually worked for the railroad.

For a while, he shared a house in Venice, California with David Crosby and Paul Kantner, and man alive to have been a fly on that wall.

Fancy yourself the outlaw sort? This man's tenure in Quicksilver Messenger service was literally bookended by marijuana bust prison sentences.

He co-founded the aforementioned group with guitarists John Cipollina, Jim Murray, Gary Duncan, and drummer Greg Elmore in 1965.

So are you in L.A.? Is that where you're based?

Yeah, I'm actually sitting here in Venice Beach right now.

The police helicopters have stopped circling overhead, so I can hear you guys loud and clear.

Nice.

tis romeo plus juliet the 1996 contemporary adaptation by antipodean rogue camera smith baz lerman he of the strict bull room of sydney the red windmill of paris the merry drover of australia the lavish tragedy of jay gatsby and king elvis the first we call it This master of kinetic passion and theatrical splendor remains the most perfect of people to encapsulate this four centuries young tale of love and obsession, jealousy, folly, determination and unspeakable loss of friendships splintered and families disemboweled of their most sensitive parts.

Set in an alternate 1990s combination of Miami, Mexico, and Venice Beach in Los Angeles, where the sun heats blood in maddened veins, Catholicism-soaked streets ring with arresting music and prince-howling choirs, this surreally believable, domestically opulent world plays home to the violence enduring between two furious families neither negotiating nor seeking peace, Montagues and Capulets.

The authentic words of the original text fly from modern lips with assurance and vitriol, drawing parallels to our own civilization, or rather lack of it, that Billy Shakes observed in his Elizabethan Europe.

This is not only the best first port of call for alerting a teenager to the abiding relevance of the Bard's body of work, but stands as a high bar to reach for filmmakers who wish to breathe life into what is perceived by the uninitiated as stuffy verbal convolutions from the old world, long bereft of import.

[instrumental music] Imagine Venice Beach at sunset.

A sea of people all dressed in white, shoes off, preparing to walk to the edge of the Pacific Ocean.

The soundtrack to their journey through the wet sand is a mix of crashing waves and a steady drum beat.

It brought people from...

It brought the guys from Venice and, and, you know, and the other areas.

It brought them down and it was just, oh, man, the Masonic Temple.

And that place was, it was the bomb.

But yeah, I remember nights like that, parties ending early due to, due to gang violence.

Even some of, um, like the Masonic parties.

The Venice, the Venice guys would come down and they'd start a fight with the Santa Monica guys, and the party ended early, you know?

Did, did you ever have someone like fall into your, you know, equipment and like-

So I used to live in California, and now I'm in Florida.

But I used to live in Venice Beach, and there was a Starbucks one block from where I lived.

And that is, to this day, my whole life, I swear to God, is the only app I've ever downloaded.

See, I have it too.

I never really gravitated towards it.

I feel like I wish I was fortunate enough to live in the Ed Ruscha times where Venice Beach was the place where everyone from New York would get in stuff from.

But anytime I tried to be in the art space in LA, it didn't really click with me.

And in New York, I kind of did.