Los Angeles

The best L.A. films of the past quarter-century

In Film & Television, List, Los Angeles on 4 September 2008 with no comments

The L.A. Times offers their list of the 25 films from the past quarter-century best capturing the essence of Los Angeles.
I was most surprised by this little nugget, from the blurb for Speed (#17):
One out of every 31 Americans lives in Los Angeles County.
I’m fine with Jackie Browne at the third spot (instead of Pulp [...]

Los Angeles Times fire map

In Environment, Los Angeles, Mapping on 23 October 2007 with no comments

The Los Angeles Times has mapped the fires in Google Maps. I was having a difficult time imagining where they were based on scattered news and reports. Not anymore.

Treatments of graffiti reveal competing visions of the city

In Art, Crime, GPS, History, Los Angeles, New York, Photography, San Francisco, Screens, Surveillance on 11 October 2007 with no comments

Graffiti Tracker applies NSA-style analysis to photographs of graffiti. BBC recently profiled the company.
BBC recently profiled the company:
Graffiti Tracker, the brainchild of graduate student and crime analyst Timothy Kephart, uses global positioning systems (GPS), digital photography and computer databases to track and catch graffiti artists.
The system - dubbed Graffiti Analysis/Intelligence Tracking System (GAITS) - takes [...]