LAVA - Los Angeles Visionaries Association

LAVA - Los Angeles Visionaries Association http://www.lavatransforms.org
If you drive a stick almost anywhere into the crust of LA, the creative fire will ooze out.

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Through participation in LAVA, creative Angelenos come together to provide cultural programming that speaks to the urban experience, and contributes to the creation of that rare thing: positive public space. Formed by social historians Kim Cooper and Richard Schave, proprietors of Esotouric bus ad

ventures and the 1947project series of time travel blogs, LAVA brings together the most intriguing creative promoters, artists, writers and thinkers in Los Angeles, sharing their visions for making a better city. Not virtually, though you’ll want to explore our online calendar, but in frequent gatherings of living, breathing, talking human beings, held in select locations all around the town. Follow LAVA’s path to find friends you might otherwise never meet. Move through the city, exploring LAVA happenings and sharing your feedback. LAVA exists to cultivate connections that will excite, inspire and transform the city and its citizens. Our creative partners share a love for L.A. and a unique vision for how to express and explore that love in their work. LAVA transforms, and its audience transform LAVA.

We loved C.C.'s walking tour from LAVA's back pages, and now you can explore lost French Los Angeles in a virtual guided...
07/06/2020

We loved C.C.'s walking tour from LAVA's back pages, and now you can explore lost French Los Angeles in a virtual guided excursion.

Just in time for Bastille Day, join C.C. de Vere for a virtual tour of Los Angeles' erased French Colony, formerly the city's largest ethnic enclave.C.C. has been researching and mapping French Los Angeles since 2013 as an offshoot of her own genealogical research. She has shared her findings throug...

01/14/2020

Architectural historian Nathan Marsak loves Los Angeles, and hates to see important buildings neglected and abused, whether by slumlord owners or the savage public. Follow him on his urban adventures as he sees something that looks like crap, opens his yap and spontaneously lets you know exactly why this place matters.

Episode Seventeen finds Nathan in the Byzantine-Latino District, aka Pico Heights, deeply troubled to find half a long block of early 20th Century bungalows and apartments boarded up behind razor wire, pending demolition for an upzoned Transit Oriented Communities project. Nathan laments the loss of green space, setbacks and neighborhood character, fails to charm a doggie, snickers at the disingenuous claim of developer-funded Sacramento pol Scott Wiener that single family homes are somehow “racist,” and reminds his fans to put on a sweater already.

If you like these Cranky Preservationist videos, you’ll probably like Nathan’s R.I.P. Los Angeles blog, too, so check it out at http://www.RIPLosAngeles.com.

Where will the Cranky Preservationist turn up next? Stay tuned!

Cranky about Facebook? This video is also on YouTube at
https://youtu.be/6XYKN94MCYk

Catch all the rants: https://www.facebook.com/search/videos/?q=%23thecrankypreservationist

11/27/2019

Claire Frith, longtime Silverlake resident and full-time bon vivant, died in the comfort of her beloved Lautner home, exactly as she had lived—surrounded by a cadre of adoring friends and family.&n…

Online debut of "True Love / True Crime on An American Bus," a short film about how a couple of tour guides (us!) decide...
10/29/2019

Online debut of "True Love / True Crime on An American Bus," a short film about how a couple of tour guides (us!) decided to use their passion for Los Angeles to try to save its history, before the wrecking ball swings. https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/601018/esotouric/

Thrilled to announce that Nick Coles' documentary about our Los Angeles true crime tours and historic preservation activism has been selected by The Atlantic as a featured short that can now be watched online. It's a love letter to our city, and we hope you fall in love with her, too. https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/601018/esotouric/

Direct YouTube video link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPBvU-rkHYE

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