Final report is done and uploaded.  The final report can be accessed online through Issuu or downloaded here.

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Tony Quan (aka Tempt One), a Los Angeles street artist now living with Lou Gehrig’s Disease, uses technology to (re)create his art.  The tool used is called “Eyewriter” invented in part by James Powderly (Graffiti Research Lab / Free Art and Technology) which allows Quan to create his art with movement of his eyes.  Follow the link above for a video.

The map above shows privately run visual art galleries and instillation spaces throughout Los Angeles. Map produced by Ryan Withrow.

Los Angeles is said to be the “Creative Capitol of World”. This article looks at the 2009 Otis Report on the Creative Economy by the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, which shows that one in every six people living in Los Angeles works in the creative industry. Link.

A funny social commentary from Futurama on the state of life in “future” Los Angeles. Link.

An article on the Coop Himmelblau designed arts high school near downtown Los Angeles. The school which was over 10 years in the making and the center of numerous controversies (even before the project ran well over budget) will be an interesting case study into how the highly complex forms of this new generation of digital architecture will affect our society and culture at the local level of the city in the years and decades to come. Link.

1965 Newscast covering the riots which broke out in the Watts neighborhood in South Central Los Angeles.

500 Days of Summer stars Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt discuss the city of Los Angeles in promotion of the movie.