MeFi Projects

Each year since 2012, we've compiled a survey of the past year's historic preservation gains, losses and the bittersweet things that teeter in between. Today we released 22 for 2015, where you'll find all our favorite funiculars, cafeterias, neon signs, giant hot dogs, celebrity pet hospitals, tiki bar fish friends and so much more. If you dig old L.A., stop by and see if your favorite place made the list.
posted by Scram on Jan 1, 2016 - 0 comments

I wrote a chapbook of poems about the 2008 California wildfires, drought, love, and anxiety about the future called Northern California Lightning Series. [more inside]
posted by rabbitbookworm on Aug 14, 2015 - 0 comments

I took my first brewery tour at the Firestone Walker Brewing Company and tweeted my experience. This tour took place Sunday, October 12, 2014, in Paso Robles, California. [more inside]
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome on Oct 28, 2014 - 0 comments

A photo-project shot whilst on a three week road trip through The Pacific North West. [more inside]
posted by lawrencium on Dec 20, 2013 - 2 comments

An immersive nocturnal ambient sound experience created and performed by yours truly. Mixing hundreds of field recordings, soundscapes, shortwave radio interceptions, natural drones, found audio, and more, it's a wide-ranging sonic odyssey which reflects ecologies of many kinds: environmental (ocean sounds, wildlife, atmospheres), religious (calls to prayer and ritual singing), radiophonic (data transmissions, Morse code, folkloric music) and beyond. The Flight is performed live and, like a traditional performance, adapts to the interests, affinities, and response of its audience. [more inside]
posted by mykescipark on Jul 22, 2013 - 2 comments

From Esotouric, the offbeat Los Angeles tour company, here's a very opinionated list of the past year's most notable historic preservation gains, losses... and those bittersweet moments that hover somewhere in the middle and keep us up nights.
posted by Scram on Dec 30, 2012 - 0 comments

For the last few years, I have traveled by bicycle with a 35mm camera and shot photos along the way. I am scanning and posting one image a day. [more inside]
posted by bradbane on Jul 4, 2012 - 3 comments

Ever wonder what the patterns of red color on peaches of nectarines are about? Do you know when you should put stone fruit in the fridge - and when you shouldn't? You knew about stems and pits, but did you now that peaches, plums, and nectarines have cheeks — and shoulders? Here's everything you didn't realize you wanted to know about peaches, plums, and nectarines. [more inside]
posted by jocelmeow on May 28, 2011 - 8 comments

I've had only unhappy experiences with the publishing houses, so I'm putting out my new novel using a home-made publishing company. The book is called Dignity, and it tells the story of little communities rising up within abandoned tract houses and foreclosure ghost towns in the deserts and exurbs around California's sprawling cities. If you're interested in sustainable housing and terrorism and gnostic Christianity and organic farming and the origins of the Pauline epistles and the evils of social media, this might be for you. [more inside]
posted by kenlayne on May 13, 2011 - 3 comments

I am running for City Council in Alameda, California. There are two open seats, and I think I have a good shot at winning! Due to corruption, cronyism and other mismanagement plaguing our city, I have decided to step up and offer my services to the community. Your support is gratefully appreciated!
posted by es el queso on Jul 12, 2010 - 9 comments