Through the Grapevine

The Center for Land Use Interpretation

9331 Venice Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232
1.310.839.5722 office

Thursday August 12
Through the Grapevine Bus Tour

"Join us for a tour of a place meant to be passed through - a tour, essentially, of a highway. We will visit contemporary and historic lines of conveyance through the transitional geography between Central and Southern California - the epic Tejon Pass region.

The tour is part of the CLUI exhibit Through the Grapevine: Streams of Transit in Southern California's Great Pass, on display through August 29.

The bus will depart from the Center for Land Use Interpretation's Los Angeles location at 9 AM and return by 7 PM.

Tour ticket price is $30. Tickets go on sale on Tuesday, August 3rd @ 12 noon PST, and must be purchased online."

[Text and graphic from CLUI press mailing. Cross-posted to Signal Fire.]

Holland 0-1 Spain [and now back to life as we usually know it ...]

[As The Data Stream returns from its month-long soccer indulgence, we feature one last bit of World Cup media - a deft English salute to the ultimate game.]

Brick-by-brick fussball: World Cup Final: Holland 0-1 Spain

A recreation of the 2010 World Cup final "in which Spain kept all their pieces together despite dirty play from the Dutch" from the brilliant and sadder-but-wiser mates staffing the Guardian sports desk.

One of a suite of their riveting marriages of stop frame animation Legos and actual match audio.

WATCH  to relive the yellow cards held high – and Iniesta's ball finding the back of the net.

Link to all the videos, including a painful recreation of Rob Green's 'awful moment in the USA-England match, featured earlier on Goal 2010!.

Reminder: The Data Stream ==> Goal 2010!

NB: through July 12,  The Data Stream has relocated to Goal 2010!, a blog focusing on the World Cup and South Africa.

Goal 2010!

[Graphic: screengrab from Goal 2010!]

Stephen Foster

[We take a brief break from the World Cup–see post below–to mark the anniversary of the birth of Stephen Foster.]



From Wikipedia: Stephen Collins Foster (July 4, 1826 – January 13, 1864), known as the "father of American music," was the pre-eminent songwriter in the United States of the 19th century. His songs, such as "Oh! Susanna," "Camptown Races," "Old Folks at Home" ("Swanee River"), "Hard Times Come Again No More," "My Old Kentucky Home," "Old Black Joe," and "Beautiful Dreamer," remain popular over 150 years after their composition.

Above: performance of "Hard Times" by Mare Winningham is from the Ulu Grossbard's 1985 film "Georgia."