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Jeff Watson is an artist, designer, and Assistant Professor of Interactive Media and Games at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.
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Tag Archives: los angeles
David Byrne’s “Report from LA” (1986)
There are so many movies coming out and David Byrne wants to see them all. His “Report from LA” (1986) somehow banishes easy irony and parody from a frantic recitation of (mostly) imaginary genre film titles, leaving us with something … Continue reading
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Tagged 1986, david byrne, los angeles, movies, performance art
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Charting culture
Skip to around 4:50 to see California’s magnetic pull — first centered on San Francisco, then on Los Angeles — as it draws migrants from the eastern seaboard as if they were iron filings. This animation distils hundreds of years … Continue reading
The secret #scareality experience at #diydays
Thanks to Lance Weiler and the rest of the DIY Days crew for helping us run a “bite-sized” version of Reality Ends Here/SCA Reality at this year’s conference. The game as we ran it was very lightweight. We kicked things … Continue reading
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Postopolis LA
Dan Hill at City of Sound recently announced the next iteration of Postopolis, which will run this Spring in Los Angeles. Viz: I’m hugely pleased to be able to announce another Postopolis, this time in Los Angeles, running from Tuesday, … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, conferences, dan hill, geoff manaugh, los angeles, postopolis, storefront, urban space
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The Most Ridiculous City in the World
Geoff at bldgblog articulates what makes living in Los Angeles so confounding, liberating and existentially raw: Los Angeles is where you confront the objective fact that you mean nothing; the desert, the ocean, the tectonic plates, the clear skies, the … Continue reading
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Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles
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