Dogpatch to Dogtown

After nearly twenty years in the Dogpatch, strangely the studio has moved to a little district in West Oakland that's called Dogtown.  Now how perfect is that?
Dogtown today is what Dogpatch was when I first moved there.  Real Rough,  Real Tumble, sort of that deserted feel to it.  Still industrial.  There was a concrete plant three blocks away from me in Dogpatch (now long gone), there's a concrete plant maybe four blocks from me in Dogtown (still going strong).
I do miss the sound of the tugboats pushing and pulling the big ships out of the drydock that was the front yard in Dogpatch but it's been replaced by the big thuds of big machines in the buildings down the street.

Tomorrow is the first shoot.

The Dogpatch is dead, long live the Dogtown!

The new view from the front door.