Hip Hop Dancers at the Donald Trump Star on the Hollwyood Walk of Fame on Hollywood Boulevard at Hollywood and Highland

Wk 12: Friday 3 November ’17, 18:08:22 PDT

The Star is a Site

With all the other images in this collection, the people love President Trump. Or hate President Trump. Or simply marvel without obvious political leaning, at seeing his star on Hollywood Blvd.

With these hip-hop dancers, I don’t think the fact that they were dancing at his star was intentional. They just came to dance on Hollywood Blvd and found some space at his star.

Sometimes the bacon-wrapped hot dog vendors, or the animal balloon vendors, or the pomegranate seed vendors, or other dancers land, sort of unintentionally on the Trump Star. I thought I might not include such moments since since they don’t have the intentionality of someone coming to express love or hate for the 45th President.

Still, the Trump Star, in addition to being a site for ideological expression, is a prominent place on a very active American culture river. If hip-hop dancers happen to dance on his star, or if the Pomegranate Lady happens to sell cups of seeds at his star, then these too are part of the negotiation of this contested/contexted space.

Hip Hop Dancers at the Donald Trump Star on the Hollwyood Walk of Fame on Hollywood Boulevard at Hollywood and Highland

Hip Hop Dancers at the Donald Trump Star on the Hollwyood Walk of Fame on Hollywood Boulevard at Hollywood and Highland

Hip Hop Dancers at the Donald Trump Star on the Hollwyood Walk of Fame on Hollywood Boulevard at Hollywood and Highland

Hip Hop Dancers at the Donald Trump Star on the Hollwyood Walk of Fame on Hollywood Boulevard at Hollywood and Highland

Donald Trump's Star on Hollywood Boulevard. 19:16:50 PDT

Wk 10: Saturday 21 October ’17, 19:15:21 PDT

The Tarot Society Los Angeles arrived and performed The Invocations of The Rites of Babalon, an Ophidian Thelemic Ritual.

Donald Trump's Star on Hollywood Boulevard. 19:15:21 PDT
Donald Trump’s Star on Hollywood Boulevard. 19:15:21 PDT
Donald Trump's Star on Hollywood Boulevard. 19:16:50 PDT
Donald Trump’s Star on Hollywood Boulevard. 19:16:50 PDT
Donald Trump's Star on Hollywood Boulevard. 19:21:17 PDT
Donald Trump’s Star on Hollywood Boulevard. 19:21:17 PDT
Donald Trump's Star on Hollywood Boulevard. 19:25:43 PDT
Donald Trump’s Star on Hollywood Boulevard. 19:25:43 PDT
Donald Trump's Star on Hollywood Boulevard. 19:31:27 PDT
Donald Trump’s Star on Hollywood Boulevard. 19:31:27 PDT
Donald Trump's Star on Hollywood Boulevard. 19:48:36 PDT
Donald Trump’s Star on Hollywood Boulevard. 19:48:36 PDT
Donald Trump's Star on Hollywood Boulevard. 19:56:57 PDT
Donald Trump’s Star on Hollywood Boulevard. 19:56:57 PDT
Donald Trump's Star on Hollywood Boulevard. 20:03:16 PDT
Donald Trump’s Star on Hollywood Boulevard. 20:03:16 PDT
Donald Trump's Star on Hollywood Boulevard. 20:13:29 PDT
Donald Trump’s Star on Hollywood Boulevard. 20:13:29 PDT
Donald Trump's Star on Hollywood Boulevard. 20:42:44 PDT
Donald Trump’s Star on Hollywood Boulevard. 20:42:44 PDT
Donald Trump's Star on Hollywood Boulevard. 21:02:05 PDT
Donald Trump’s Star on Hollywood Boulevard. 21:02:05 PDT
Donald Trump's Star on Hollywood Boulevard. 18:36:22 PDT

Wk #9: Friday 13 October ’17, 18:07:07 PDT

This week President Trump refused to call The Persian Gulf, “The Persian Gulf.” Instead choosing to call it “The Arabian Gulf.” Like everything else he does, it became a national news story.

When this group of people – Los Angelenos of Iranian descent, I’d guess – saw the Trump Star they took out a sharpie and made signs protesting the slight. They came back a little while later with scotch tape so their signs wouldn’t blow away so quickly.

Since they had no access to the “real” President Trump to protest, they instead plead their case to the Donald Trump impersonator who was at The Star.

Donald Trump's Star on Hollywood Boulevard. 18:07:07 PDT
Donald Trump’s Star on Hollywood Boulevard. 18:07:07 PDT
Donald Trump's Star on Hollywood Boulevard. 18:31:01 PDT
Donald Trump’s Star on Hollywood Boulevard. 18:31:01 PDT
Donald Trump's Star on Hollywood Boulevard. 18:33:55 PDT
Donald Trump’s Star on Hollywood Boulevard. 18:33:55 PDT
Donald Trump's Star on Hollywood Boulevard. 18:36:22 PDT
Donald Trump’s Star on Hollywood Boulevard. 18:36:22 PDT