Sunday LA snapshots

A small kid on a corner on Sunset in a bright-green Incredible Hulk costume, holding a sign advertising some nearby video game shop. The sign almost as big as him.

A group of kids outside a tiny side-street recording studio. Half of them arranged behind artlessly positioned musical instruments — a basic drum-kit, a keyboard with spindly legs — a girl in a white angel costume flitting about between them. The other half off at a distance, watching, smiling, as one of them tapes the performance with a small video camera. They all look so young and going-places, imagining this tape as a faintly-embarrassing curiosity ten years from now, once they’ve made it and the world’s at their feet.