On Location: (500) Days of Summer

I have decided to create a new feature that I have entitled "On Location" to my photoblog. This was inspired by a conversation I had with Johanna about (500) Days of Summer, how watching the movie was basically reliving the Urbanscape Junior Year project I did in high school, and the bench scene. I told her that I love the places depicted in (500) Days of Summer but that for some reason they look a lot more stylized, dreamy, hipster-y, and just plain clean than in real life. I'm not trying to badmouth L.A. I LOVE L.A. My favorite Rilo Kiley song is "I Love L.A./Let Me Back In." I daydream of L.A. when I'm in Berkeley. I spend a lot of my vacation time back home exploring, photographing, and just wandering L.A.

Anyway, when I saw (500) Days of Summer, I recognized various locations in the movie. More specifically, this entry is about the bench scene in (500) Days of Summer.

"The bench scene" that I mention is the one in which Tom discusses architecture and draws the skyline on Summer's arm. I believe it is also part of the opening montage. You can see glimpses here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsD0NpFSADM at 0:51 and 2:01-2:02.

Those scenes take place at Angel's Flight and the park adjacent to it in Downtown L.A. just across the street from one end of the Pershing Square Metro Station and about a block away from the actual Pershing Square. It is also located near the Financial District.

Here are some pictures that I took today (They are also technically part of the Gloomy Downtown L.A. (01/01/10) series.):








VERY (500) Days of Summer



I'm not sure why the pictures are squared off on this post. To see them in full size, just click them or go to my flickr page for them: http://www.flickr.com/photos/berniesamson/sets/72157622994311077/

:)