Walking LA

Documenting an experiential map of Los Angeles: sound/image/performance. This is our Street Museum Project. [email protected], https://twitter.com/walkingla, Facebook: WalkingL.A.

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Los Angeles Public Library on Instagram: “The venerable Thomas Guide rightfully gets a good amount of attention when we talk about street guides of LA, but map librarian Glen…”

1,244 Likes, 95 Comments - Los Angeles Public Library (@lapubliclibrary) on Instagram: “The venerable Thomas Guide rightfully gets a good amount of attention when we talk about street…”

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Lab Book #5: Christian Smith

Monkey Head Lab Book at The Institute of Cultural Inquiry

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Urban walking isn’t just good for the soul. It could save humanity | Jonn Elledge

Understanding how cities are put together is vital, given more than half of us live in them, says Jonn Elledge, editor of CityMetric

Come on LA we can do this!

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Thinking of #pico-robertson

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#christianmaiersmithphotography in residency at #instituteofculturalinquiry #artshow #research #collodionprints #wetplatephotography #tintype #mobiledarkroom

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Street Museum Project are proud to be part of this work. A series of collodion prints of some of the female participants will be on show soon at the Institute of Cultural Inquiry. More info to follow...

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#tintype #collodion @christianmaiersmithphoto #streetmuseumproject

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Wet plate photography tutorial from Will Dunniway

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Anthropologist follows trail of century-old hobo graffiti

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Anthropologist Susan Phillips had spent a career examining the graffiti that covers urban walls, bridges and freeway overpasses. But when she came across an unrecognizable collection made not of spray…

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#christianmaiersmith #darkroom #construction #losangeles @instituteofculturalinquiry #theory #practice #photography #art #culture #monkeyhead

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A Look into the Institute of Cultural Inquiry

#christianmaiersmithphoto in #artresidency @instituteofculturalinquiry building #cameras #process #theory #photography #memory #losangeles #culture #art #walkingla #streetmuseumproject

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Record and submit your discoveries walking in LA #walkingla

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'Hope everyone pukes on your artisanal treats': fighting gentrification, LA-style

Hardline tactics succeed in keeping outsiders away from Boyle Heights, the Latino community that is the last holdout to Los Angeles gentrification

Walking out of Boyle Heights

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How Walking in Nature Changes the Brain

#NYTIMES

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LA, a surprise nature hotspot, is home to one of the biggest biodiversity studies

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is trying to collect and inventory all of the region’s urban wildlife, some of which hitched a ride to the metropolis

Don’t Forget Bobcats! #animals 

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Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.

“john cage #simonemorris

my approach to the StreetMuseumproject

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L.A. Is America's Deadliest Place for Walking

Los Angeles' hit-and-run epidemic is well-known. And our affinity for the car is legendary. So it should probably come as no surprise that Los Angeles County has the highest number of pedestrian deaths in the United States, according to a new analysis by the Auto Insurance Center. The organization looked...