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SIGGRAPH 2004

Spontaneous Connection

"From Friendster to flash mobs to MoveOn, the future belongs to crowds."

This series of articles profile what has become a global vernacular of wired spaces and gathering spots. Besides the everybody-has-a-blog community, other issues such as the MoveOn movement, crazy flash mobs, Friendster's abandonment issues and "to be IMDBed" offer interesting perspective into the electronic politicos of the new millennium.
LA Weekly: Columns

A People’s Guide to LA is an attempt to map sites of racial and class struggle in Los Angeles’ history and landscape. Started by Laura Pulido and Sharon Sehkon of the Institute of Media Literacy, Annenberg School of Communications, USC, this is a critical project that preserves a facet of social and place history in the ever-changing demographic climate of the region.

In particular, an extension of this project involves the collection of historical information, items, and testimonies of the Holiday Bowl site, which I hope I will be working on come October.
a people's guide to los angeles

"Of all human enterprises, philosophical inquiry is the most practical. It is the use of intelligence to liberalize action, to open up new possibilities. Philosophy is also passionate. It is spurred by dissatisfaction with what needs correction, zeal in the communal search for greater sense, joy at new harmonies achieved. It is mind in the service of heart, a discipline in the service of human growth. Philosophical inquiry is, at its best, an adventure in making life whole."

Robert Johann