Nearer, the daytime spectacles at Venice Beach were winding down, and the evening shows were about to begin. Grids brought his Ares CCD binoculars up to his eyes and scanned the beach. A team of hugely muscled joyboys performed acrobatics to a crowd of onlookers. The men had been surgically altered to look like clones—all natural flesh, identical deep brown tans, and blond wavy hair.