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Visualizing the LA Aqueduct
Visualizing the LA Aqueduct
My article, Visualizing Water Infrastructure with Sankey Maps: a Case Study of Mapping the Los Angeles Aqueduct, California, was just published in Journal of Maps!!! In it, I dive deep into the theory and practices behind the signature Sankey map of the Aqueduct Futures exhibit with a peer reviewed research article. You can read the full article (it’s open-access thanks to the College of…
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LA H20 Cycle Sources
LA H20 Cycle Sources
Los Angeles Water Cycle The water supply for the City of Los Angeles is an intertwined mix of imported and local water. This Sankey Diagram reveals critical opportunities to improve the resilience of the local water supply by enhancing runoff capture and recycling water for direct reuse and indirect groundwater recharge. If every available drop of water was recycled, the region will gain 502…
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Eidetic Videos 2016 Final student videos from my spring LA303L Studio are here! Check out the awesome eidetic video montages featuring student's dust mitigation projects for Owens Lake that were created using parametric design tool.
Jennifer Little's 100 Years of Dust
Jennifer Little’s 100 Years of Dust
Several talented photographers have brought their lenses to Owens Lake and created exhibit worthy images such as David Maisel, Robin Black, and my After the Aqueduct compatriot Chad Ress. Joining this pantheon is Jennifer Little, a professor at University of the Pacific. Little’s 2014 exhibit, 100 Years of Dust: Owens Lake and the Los Angeles Aqueduct has been making the rounds of college…
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1915 Impact of LAA on Owens Lake Soda Industry
1915 Impact of LAA on Owens Lake Soda Industry
After the 1916 Complete Report on the Construction of the LA Aqueduct, Charles Lee’s 1915 Report on Hydrology of Owens Lake Basin & the Natural Soda Ash Industry as Affected by the Los Angeles Aqueduct Diversion [17mb pdf] is required reading for any scholar of Owens Lake and the Los Angeles Aqueduct. While the scan by UC Riverside is missing the plates, there is a rich trove of data about…
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Cinematic Owens Lake - Spring 2016 by LA303L Had the pleasure of introducing another group of #CPPLA students to Owens Lake this April (bringing the tally to over 150 students!) The results of my LA303L student's 4 days of field work and exploration were edited into 3-minute videos feature their mapping/analysis drawings too.
Parametrics: Opportunities and Challenges
Parametrics: Opportunities and Challenges
History shows that there is a consistent reaction (by some), against new technology. This subset of people often believe that the new technology represents some type of negative shift in thinking and/or production. It is no different with parametric design. Is this an appropriate reaction? In What contexts is parametric design best employed, and what can it not do? Clearly, when there is a…
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Capturing Wind
Translation is an exercise in abstraction. This series of wind drawings attempts to capture the multi-layered nature of wind patterns across the Owens Valley landscape using mylar paper and audio-recordings of wind. I developed a series of marks to symbolize major and minor sounds. Both sides of the mylar are used to mimic the three-dimensional quality of sound. In future drawing exercises I’d…
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The Practicality of Designing Something Completely Impractical
The Practicality of Designing Something Completely Impractical
From the beginning, Barry’s approach to the class made me somewhat uncomfortable; the idea of designing for a future scenario, and not getting caught up in the constraints of today. My approach to design is driven largely by a desire to solve problems and overcome real constraints. But in the end I found it meaningful. Removing some of the constraints of the present allowed me to create a more…
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Notes From A Resource Colony II
Notes From A Resource Colony II
In a way I can’t decide if the resource colony is a more benign form of colonialism or a more offensive one. European colonialism in Africa, Asia, and Latin America was horrible. It was full of atrocity and cultural belittlement. But in the French’s attempts to turn Africans into Frenchmen, there was still an implicit understanding that those people mattered, or at least they could. With the…
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Final thoughts for Owens Lake project and course
Final thoughts for Owens Lake project and course
As Project 4 was coming to end we were finally seeing how all the assignments were coming together. How all the phases we had done before added to our final project. Coming up with a script and a choreography was difficult and interesting but it assisted us in our final decisions for the final project. For our presentation we had a good presentation even though our approach was more from a…
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Cougar Crossing Typologies Designing highway crossings to accommodate cougar passage through the Owens Valley fall under two typologies: highway bridge underpass and large box culvert.
Eidetic Photo montage In the final presentation we had to incorporate an eidetic photo montage. I tried to include the experiences that I felt from the lake.
The Barren Lake: Final Project As we did all the research for Owens Lake it came down to do tillage for the final design.
Alabama Hills Exploration
During some downtime on the Owens Valley field trip, a group of grad students went to the Alabama Hills to explore the boulders. I was shocked and excited to find out that just off the 395 out of Independence there were amazing boulder piles resembling Joshua Tree. Climbing out and onto the rocks gave amazing views of the Owens Valley to the East and the Sierra Nevada to the west. Another time I…
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Meeting with Paiute Elder Harry Williams
Meeting with Paiute Elder Harry Williams
One of the most interesting parts of the trip to Owens Valley was our meeting with members of the Paiute Native Americans of the Owens Valley. Harry Williams, who is an activist campaigning for the Paiute people and the land and habitats of the Owens Valley, took us on a walk out to explore ancient Paiute irrigation ditches and housing sites.
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Aqueduct Futures Workshop At LACE
Aqueduct Futures Workshop At LACE
The Friday afternoon meeting with the high school art students at LACE was a really interesting and positive experience for me. At the beginning of the week when we were assigned the workshop about the Aqueduct Futures exhibit I was feeling a bit overwhelmed by the prospect. It seemed like quite the challenge considering my lack of familiarity with the exhibit. However, I was very pleased and…
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