Introducing Spot
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Population clip from First Spark Media on Vimeo.
Starting with Boyle Heights, we are going to visit different neighborhoods of Los Angeles every other week. We believe looking into the history of these neighborhoods is as transformative as making projections to its future. Boyle Heights is a neighborhood east of Downtown Los Angeles with one of the youngest populations in the city. Today, many of our initiatives are located or working in this area, including our Health grantee, Public Matters and our Income & Employment grantees ELACC and LURN.
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A review of "Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict," the documentary that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Field books capture essential information for ecological history but are often difficult to track down in scientific collections. The Field Book Project, launched in 2010 by the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian Institution Archives, is an initiative to catalogue field books, track their conservation, and make them accessible online.
How Audubon Pranked a Fellow Naturalist with a Bulletproof Fish
The filmmaker spoke about his influences, the attempt to bridge the gap between freedom and formality, and what it means to be “underground” today.
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