Category Archives: Cultural Inquiry

Seeking a Moral Job

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Posted on a billboard in the Institute’s neighborhood. We couldn’t help but notice the job-seeker’s name.

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Crossing the Line

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I live at the edge of Chinatown and downtown LA, so the setting for my life revolves around this little border. There isn’t much around except a neighborhood Walmart. I visit about once a week to purchase my groceries and … Continue reading

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“G’way Woman You Bother Me!”

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Text circa 1945.

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…Slayer…Victim, Speak

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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. – Bertrand Russell              http://www.jewishjournal.com/los_angeles/article/atonement_chickens_swung_and_tossed  

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East West Divide

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  The 4th Street Bridge was built in 1931 and since has connected East Los Angeles to Central and West Los Angeles. It is an important means of transport and yet as the image at right suggests, for many, the … Continue reading

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Obsolete Objects

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In a world of ever-evolving technology how do we decide which objects become obsolete and which remain? Is it form vs. function or is there something else that guides us? Who decides?

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Last Library

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Found on Channel Road in Santa Monica.

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Green Clean ‘Art’ Scene

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Taking it’s cues from the ubiquitous ‘wash me’ signs hastily scribbled into the layer of exterior dirt on cars across the world, reverse graffiti (AKA green graffiti or clean tagging) is the act of marking a public space with street … Continue reading

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Words Hurt

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A recent, windy day in Malibu, CA revealed, in more ways than one, a ‘dirty’ underside of the American experience. The door to an enclosed area for garbage cans had swung open exposing a seemingly ‘private’ directive. This part of … Continue reading

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Life Imitates Art…

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  What would Claes Oldenburg think?

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