Nov 29 | A behind-the-scene video of the possible Star Trek movie set has been brought forward online. The short footage of the snowy set is said to be taken back in February when Fox Channel 11 Los Angeles sent one of their helicopters to fly over the movie set. In it, the Fox Channel reporter explains what is visible and where the set is taking place. You can watch the video here.
Nov 27 | Star Trek Online posted 3 new screenshots at their official site gallery.
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By Steve Krutzler / 00:08, 23 August 2004 / TrekWeb Features
David Livingston has directed 59 episodes of STAR TREK. Coming up through the ranks as a line producer on THE NEXT GENERATION and supervising producer on DEEP SPACE NINE and VOYAGER, Livingston is a fixture on the newly released DVDs of all three series.
His TREK resume includes "The Mind's Eye," "You Are Cordially Invited," "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges," "Scorpion, Part 1," "The Killing Game," "Equinox," "Shuttlepod One," and "The Council." He's finishing "Borderland," the first in an ENTERPRISE story arc guest starring Brent Spiner, today.
TrekWeb caught up with Livingston at an exhibition of his original photography called "The Sign," not far from the eponymous landmark, last week.
TW: Give us a little background on the subject of the exhibit.
DL: I moved to Beachwood Canyon four years and when I did I became entranced by the Hollywood sign. The house that I live in is actually a Hollywoodland house which was the original development in 1923; eventually the housing development went bust and the letters started falling down and the community of Hollywood wanted to preserve it as a landmark. Periodically it’s fallen down and they’ve rebuilt it. Finally in the 70s they built the present sign, which celebrities would donate X dollars and buy a letter. There was a benefit held at Hugh Hefner’s mansion; Alice Cooper bought a letter, Hefner bought one.
When I moved here I always wanted to do this photo essay and I took some film shots but I wasn’t really satisfied, they were OK, I get frustrated because I don’t like dealing with labs and I don’t do the darkroom. In December I bought a digital camera and it was liberating because now I could do it all at my desk. I shoot on my Canon Rebel, I process everything through Photoshop on my Mac and I print it all out. All the prints here I made except the enlargements and then I had them mounted and laminated.
TW: Why the sign?
DL: The sign is bizarre. These letters that mean so much to so many people. There’s thousands of people each year who come to Beachwood and they ask me ‘how do I get closer? Can I climb up, can I touch it?' And you get arrested if you do and I’ve been threatened with arrests several times. But it means something, kind of the dream that Hollywood represents, it’s not just letters, it’s a symbol of attaining something and that’s the draw, because all it is is silly letters, nine letters.
When you drive up Beachwood that’s all you see, the sign. Now it represents whatever Hollywood is, Hollywood is ephemeral, it’s not real, it’s in your head, in your heart. And the Hollywood sign is the physical representation of it and it draws people. I got obsessed by it. Every photo has the sign in it in one shape, way or form. Except ChinatownLand, which was an homage.
TW: One of your pieces conjures the memory of the actress who jumped off the sign. Is that why it's blocked off now?
DL: Peg Entwhisle committed suicide in the 1920s, but [mostly] they don’t want people climbing around and marking it up and putting graffiti on it. It’s very hilly and there are snakes. I think there are eleven camera and ground sensors. When you go up there and they see you they say that you’re subject to arrest in 30 seconds and a $219 fine. [But] you just have to know where to point your cameras. And I know; some of these right after I took it I got yelled at.
TW: So many of these were illicitly snapped?
DL: They were surreptitiously taken. There’s a lot of ways. An L.A. councilman came to the exhibit last time and [when I told him] he deputized me. [Laughter]. I haven’t been busted yet. There is a Hollywood Trust that charges if it’s used in movies but you go to Hollywood Blvd and there are post cards but there’s no way to enforce that. Literally thousands of people every year come up the hill and I tell them how to get up there.
TW: All the post effects were done in Photoshop?
DL: 90% or more are shot on digital, some were done in iFoto before I got Photoshop. I like to work in color saturation. My printer holds it all.
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