clearly, a movie name

I love you, Los Angeles, or the documentation of falling in love with the City of LAh. Is this selfish? Possibly. But if you have love, why not share it? I am falling in love with this city, with Skid Row and its gems, roof tops and overpasses. So, to progress my own adventures, I am planning to make a movie from it.

If only I was as cute as a button as Ms July.
If only we could only learn to love you more.

Watch out for more to come photos.

love in LA LAnd

Welcome to the Fog Bank. The fog bank emerges via those who seek to stalk the ethical force we use to navigate its density. Juan Azulay is guiding us through this fogbank mess, or at least dispersing us like wild spores into the allergy season. We are looking at Los Angeles, LA LA LAnd. Above is the is a short still movie that I made for studio with some stories nested and no story at all. Watch it with out the sound first and then with sound for the full cinematic effect. I have no need to tell the story, but feel free to tell me your interpretations.

Another product from studio so far is a mashup with Entourage and Wattstax. This is a diagram of the use of the voyeuristic camera. Entourage, as a tv show, has many angles for the camera positions that are very similar to documentary shots. Documentaries, I have observed, are more constrained due to the lack of choreography and scripting. I would post it but I can't seem to compress the file.

I also did a mash up on Existing to Escape::Escape to Exist, mixing multiple movies about Los Angeles.

LA LA LAnd

In a city of concrete, begging hands, and silicone breasts, a place to call your own is pricey and free. Public space is gasps between parking lots and parking garages.

Islands of LA revitalizes public space by transforming traffic islands into territories of art that can generate culture interchanges. Traffic islands are the just waiting with potential. This is like the the Elgaland-Vargaland, with its ownership in boarders and inhabitants of decested. Who inhabits these islands? Is this the homeless nomad waiting to claim stake to some landscape? Is it the unresting hipster?

makers and shakers

Before I get to the gut of it, Ive been making some things happen around these parts. As some know, I am really good at instigating things and getting into trouble. Back in the burgh, Carrie Nardini and I started a nomadic market, I Made It! Market. The market has been continuing since I've left. The whole idea behind the market is to give people to opportunity to sell the things they make. "Do you make things? Do you want to sell the things you make? Sell it at I Made It!"
That's a common phrase from my mouth. "By you coming to the market, you've made it too!"
I saw it as an opportunity to create event in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh is a city with many little neighborhoods and is not so foreign from LA as one would think. Pittsburgh is a bunch of broken puzzle pieces that fit but don't flow. As small and manageable as that city is, its not self aware.
With the I Made It! Market in Pittsburgh we are able to interlace through exposure and repetition. I see it as an example of urban acupuncture.
As I am now in Los Angeles, I have stumbled accross a gallery, a potential space. Inmo Yuon has decided to let me in on use planning of the space. So what do I do? Put an I Made It! Market! The exception fo the rule is that its not nomadic though the space is pretty ephemeral. I joined forces with Los Angeles Craft Mafia and we have about 15 vendors. Morgan from the craft mafia has stared a blog and has made this fantastic poster for it.


Please join us on FEB 9th at Billy's Coffee Shop at 5th and main street downtown Los Angeles.


Downtown is amazing. It's soo Pittsburgh. It's sooo raw with real Dirt. Real fear. Real urgency. I love it.

There are some new blogs on the side one in particluar, the Solstice Creative, by dearest Doug. He has also brought to my attention that the Library of Congress has just uploaded like 3000 photos on to flickr. THANKS LOC!

motrins and martinis...

We are back in black and brown. Welcome to the continuation of the blog life. Second semester of MEDIAscapes and we are experiencing the cinematic enigmatic life of the city of LA(pronounced lah) One of the many goals is to make a documentary film. I will recap on events that have been up until now unrepresented on the blog.

Project by Christian Nold

I hate to jump around but I found this article and its is part of the answer to the bread tabs. Bread tabs and tagging homeless people.

Christian Nold, artist, lecturer, designer, cultural activist ... etc, makes a lot of maps, collective maps. He has an on going map on RFIDs. The goal of the map is to provide an overview of the battle of language in the socio/techno/cultural space and to show the connections between language and actor networks.

In order to gather the data for the map, they are currently organizing participatory workshops as well as interviewing people with experience and ideas around RFID.

Shoot the Runner..

New Mission- Stalk the stalker, infiltration of Paparazzi culture... I'm a new metal(media) collector for onMatter, a publication and feed out there for the critical survey of material... matter... It focuses on globalization as a reformed city-state, opposed to national-city-states of imperialism. Welcome to Los Angesleeez, the city of stars and excess.


Who are the documenters? La Paparazzi. Sifting through grocery line snuff-n-fluff magazines, names seep to the gutters of the staple fold 9x11 prints. Starting with the lowest risk factor, those names lead to identities. These names are here for copyright, are they artistic expressions? Flashes with a candid Cannon? Of the names here are some:


Dave Hogan- getty images
Colin Drummond- splash news
Gamepikes Karl Larsen- nf photo
Ethan Miller- getty images
Edward Le Poulin- splash news
Polk Imaging- wireimage
ay Throunton- nf photo
Chip East- landov/reuters
Mike Segar- landov/reuters
Danielle Venturelli- wireimage
Nonato Sardella-wireimage
Dave/Shinnn- Bauer-Griffen
Seth Browarnik-wire image
Gabriel S/Dean M - BM Bauer-Griffen
Bruce Glikas - Drowey 2007
GS- X17
agentcy Gaz Shirley-pacific Cost News
Ben Tsui - Splash News

Pinpoint on Dave Hogan and the Getty Image Crowd...
Photographer name: Dave Hogan
Age: 44 Location: London, UK
Birthplace: Bury, Lancashire, soon after moved to Wales He has the copy write to this photo.


On the Collective: Splash News...
This is a blog that pays you(me, your momma's momma) for their snapshots.

The next step:
PHYSICAL INVESTIGATIONS..
and Typologies of these voyeurs.


ps.
paparazzi like macs