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monument to this moment

admin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:54:34 +0000

Monument to this moment is a map of people answering the question “what are you thinking about?”.

credits and influences:
Jon Rubin & Harrell Fletcher’s monument to this moment
REMAP: The Center for Research in Engineering, Media and Performance
soundseeker.org
experimental geography

01.17.10 Mike Merritt presents Back to the Future and the 2010 Achievement Awards

admin — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:33:53 +0000

Mike Merritt presents Back to the Future and the 2010 Achievement Awards! We’ll be screening Back To The Future and be giving out Awards for things you have not done yet.

Doors open at 5:30pm
Movie starts at 6:45pm

Happy Holidays

admin — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:49:46 +0000

The neighborhood salon is going dormant for the holidays, check back for more happenings after the new years. The image above is from the SantaCon event by the cacophony society.

12.11.09 Screening Ghostbusters

admin — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:39:13 +0000

Friday night (7pm) we’ll be screening Ghostbusters, followed by a discussion about marginalized academics.

12.06.09 Mall Madness & Folk Music

admin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:16:40 +0000

Opening our doors for an hour of snacks at 3PM and starting at about 4PM

Levi & Dustin will be presenting a lecture about the board game Mall Madness. This will be followed by a live performance of folk music by the power house duet – Mike and Shea. After the performance there will be a brain storming session for the creation of a rock opera starring our neighbors. It’s going to be a lot of fun.

11.22.09 Stephen Greenwood ~ reflections from Tanzania

admin — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 08:34:26 +0000

In June of 2008, Stephen received his undergrad degree from UCLA’s Film & Television department with a concentration in documentary production. Immediately after graduation, Stephen spent 5 months in Tanzania, working with and documenting an orphanage that had been abandoned by its management, staff and financiers.

Since starting the project, Stephen has tried to gain a better understanding of how international aid is treated in developing nations, and what Westerners can do to ‘help’ countries like Tanzania.

Stephen will be sharing photos and a few short video clips from his travels. He is currently living in the Carbonera neighborhood in Santa Cruz.

For more information about Stephen Greenwood check out his website.

the Salon starts at 3PM
Stephen’s talk will start at about 4PM

you should have been there

admin — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 08:23:35 +0000

Some images from the first Salon.

Matt Levey & Patty Quillin enjoying snacks and conversation

Matt Levey presenting to the group

11.08.09 Matt Levey on Marine Science

admin — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:23:48 +0000

Matt Levey talks about Marine Science

4:00PM ~ 11.08.09

Matt moved to central California to attend graduate school at the Moss Landing Marine Laboratories. There he studied the ecology of marine fishes in the Gulf of California, Mexico. While there his interest in fish habitat led him to learning about seafloor mapping and Geographic Information Systems (GIS), which led to a job with a local geophysical consulting company. For this job Matt spent months offshore and traveled to over 15 countries on six continents. Seizing the opportunity at the beginning of this year, Matt started his own marine science consulting company out of his home.

Matt is going to speak about marine science using his academic and professional experiences as examples of what marine science is and what marine scientists do.

Matt is from the Cottage at 320 W. Cliff Dr.

For more information about Matt’s work visit Sea Spatial

3:00PM ~ 11.08.09 ~ discussion about the neighborhood salon: How does it function? Why are we doing this? etc