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Explore LA’s Long History On Film in Los Angeles Plays Itself

Los Angeles Plays Itself is one of the most fascinating documentaries about LA and film-making, and starting today, it’s available to stream on Netflix. Thom Andersen’s beloved documentary is a thorough media study, a meditation, a and an encyclopedic clip show highlighting L.A.’s most memorable roles, from Chinatown to L.A. Confidential to Who Framed Roger…

Tech News Kate Knibbs Nov 14

UberPLUS: Like UberX But For L.A. Cliches

Uber launched a new car service in Los Angeles today. It’s basically the old one that everybody uses. But it’s more expensive and perfect for people who reinforce stereotypes about vapid Angelenos only obsessed with shiny, expensive cars! My youngest brother recently moved from Chicago to Los Angeles. While out at one of our fair…

Tech News Matt Novak Oct 15

Why Today’s Architects Build Digital Cities Instead of Scale Models

When I was a grad student in architecture school in the 80s, one of our professors was on a mission. Every semester he’d give a design project in downtown Manhattan, asking his students to spend the first two weeks of the term building a beautiful wood model of the surrounding site. The next year he…

Tech News Phil Bernstein - Autodesk Oct 2

I Flew to Work in the Uber for the Skies

Flying from LA to San Francisco on business is a task normally fraught with stress and rage. But today, my journey begins from a better place. Instead of the gargantuan mess that is LAX, my Uber rolls up to a tiny airport three miles to the east. I start to realize just how different my…

Tech News Alissa Walker Sep 29

Why Sprawling LA Could Be Denser Than NYC in a Decade

By 2025, the biggest cities in the world will not only be bigger, but exceptionally denser. According to a new study, Hong Kong will be the densest megacity on the planet, almost twice as crowded as the runner up. And here in the U.S.—and this might be a real shocker—Los Angeles may be more dense…

Tech News Alissa Walker Sep 24

Driving in Los Angeles somehow looks awesome in this time lapse

I hate driving, I really do. I especially hate driving in Los Angeles. And even though I know it’s impossible and unreal for me to ever feel this cool driving (unless I turn into Ryan Gosling), this time lapse by Gavin Heffernan makes me want to get in my car and drive through Los Angeles…

Sploid Casey Chan Sep 20

LA Schools Are Giving Back Grenade Launchers (But Keeping the Tank)

Los Angeles School Police Department announced this week that it would be sending some controversial surplus military equipment back to the federal government. Specifically, the school police will send back three grenade launchers. In related news, LA school police had grenade launchers. What the protectors of the LA Unified school district are sending back is…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Sep 17

Listen to KCRW’s Famously Eclectic Programming Any Time of Day

Did you know beloved LA radio station KCRW has an all-music broadcast and streaming service called Eclectic24? With Spotify, Pandora, Songza, and tons of other streaming music options readily available, good old-fashioned radio can easily fall by the wayside these days. KCRW is fighting against the dinosaur label and adapting to streaming culture in a…

Tech News Kate Knibbs Sep 15

Flooding, Anti-Vaxxers, Museums: What’s Ruining Our Cities This Week

Flooding in Pakistan has stranded hundreds of thousands of people, an anti-vaccination movement trending in L.A.’s most affluent neighborhoods is causing a whooping cough epidemic, and one broken air conditioner could destroy Rome’s most priceless art. Hope you’re comfortable, this week’s What’s Ruining Our Cities is a doozy. Floods are ruining Kashmir There’s weird weather…

Tech News Alissa Walker Sep 14

Why Scientists Dig Trenches To Find Hidden Fault Lines in Cities

Thanks to our asphalt-giddy behavior, we’ve all but paved over the fault lines that zigzag through some of our riskiest seismic zones. A new video shows how a team of geologists and engineers in LA have been digging a hole to find the exact location of a fault which could prove to be especially destructive.…

Tech News Alissa Walker Sep 8

California is such a stunningly gorgeous place

I’m biased because I grew up in California so it’ll always be home to me but I’ll always be a little jealous of people who aren’t from here, just for the opportunity to be able to see it for the first time with brand new eyes. It’s such a big state that there are so…

Sploid Casey Chan Sep 5

Drain Drones and Hydro-Saws: A Sewer Tour of LA’s Underground Tech

“So, do you prefer full-immersion or ankle-deep?” Not quite the reply I’d expected from Kent Carlson, the sewer and stormwater field operations manager for the city of Los Angeles, when I requested a tour of the city’s new sewer technology. I’d reached out to Carlson after catching some intriguing photos on his Twitter feed, which…

Tech News Alissa Walker Sep 2

Water Slides, Preservation, Ebola: What’s Ruining Our Cities This Week

Los Angeles ponders the ethics of slip-and-sliding in a drought. UNESCO is being blamed for killing the cities it protects. Ebola is slowly decimating village by village in Africa. It’s this week’s look at What’s Ruining Our Cities. A (proposed) water slide is ruining Los Angeles Urban water slides are super fun (we’ve written about…

Tech News Alissa Walker Aug 24

29 New, Ballmer-Friendly Logos for the LA Clippers

Earlier in the week, we asked you to help celebrate Steve Ballmer’s $2 billion basketball acquisition by giving the ex-Microsoft man a logo he could be proud of. And you, dear readers, done very, very good. Some of you chose a more traditional route, some a little absurdist, and a few of you seem to…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Aug 15

Join Gizmodo for a Los Angeles Happy Hour Tonight

Little known fact: At least six of your favorite Gizmodo contributors are based in Los Angeles. Because it’s summer, and we’ll take any excuse to drink outdoors, we’re organizing a happy hour for our L.A.-based readers. Join us, won’t you? We’re headed to Hollywood on Monday, August 11 for drinks at The Cat & Fiddle,…

Tech News Alissa Walker Aug 11

The Skyscraper Boom That’s Going To Make American Cities Way Taller

It seems like most of the architectural zeitgeist in the U.S. is dominated by news of supertalls sprouting in Manhattan. But that has not been the case in many American cities. Even with widespread housing shortages and proof that density is better for residents, most American cities have had a fear of heights—until now. Thanks…

Tech News Alissa Walker Aug 4

Floods, Rats, and Dominoes: What’s Ruining Our Cities This Week

Biblical floods swept through L.A. thanks to a water main break. Rats are overrunning Paris. And games—those dangerous diversions!—are being outlawed Seville, Spain. Hmm, does this sound like the end of days to anyone else? It’s a Revelations-themed look at What’s Ruining Our Cities! Floods are ruining Los Angeles Over 20 million gallons of drinking…

Tech News Alissa Walker Aug 3

This Dreamy Drone Tour Shows the Rebirth of Downtown Los Angeles

Los Angeles’s swiftly mutating downtown is usually viewed at street level. Now, thanks to filmmaker Ian Wood, we get a top-down perspective of the city’s transformation in this gorgeous video, which he shot with a lightweight remote-controlled quadcopter and camera system. 20 stories up, there’s change afoot as well. With the stunning detail that only…

Tech News Alissa Walker Jul 25

Lonely skater explores eerie Los Angeles empty of any cars

Filmmaker Russell Houghten created the illusion that the skaters in this video were travelling alone thru an abandoned Los Angeles, an eerie view of a city that is always brimming with heavy traffic. A lot of the time they were in fact mixing with speeding traffic which he later patiently removed in post-production. The film…

Sploid James Baker Jul 21

10 Years Later, You Can Finally Buy The Best Documentary About L.A.

Los Angeles Plays Itself is a story of how L.A. has been portrayed on screen, its thesis unfolding through hundreds of iconic film clips. But the biggest reason that Thom Andersen’s legendary documentary has reached a near-cult status is that, due to copyright issues, the film has never been properly released in theaters or on…

Movies Alissa Walker Jul 9

Explore LA’s Long History On Film in Los Angeles Plays Itself

UberPLUS: Like UberX But For L.A. Cliches

Why Today’s Architects Build Digital Cities Instead of Scale Models

I Flew to Work in the Uber for the Skies

Why Sprawling LA Could Be Denser Than NYC in a Decade

Driving in Los Angeles somehow looks awesome in this time lapse

LA Schools Are Giving Back Grenade Launchers (But Keeping the Tank)

Listen to KCRW’s Famously Eclectic Programming Any Time of Day

Flooding, Anti-Vaxxers, Museums: What’s Ruining Our Cities This Week

Why Scientists Dig Trenches To Find Hidden Fault Lines in Cities

California is such a stunningly gorgeous place

Drain Drones and Hydro-Saws: A Sewer Tour of LA’s Underground Tech

Water Slides, Preservation, Ebola: What’s Ruining Our Cities This Week

29 New, Ballmer-Friendly Logos for the LA Clippers

Join Gizmodo for a Los Angeles Happy Hour Tonight

The Skyscraper Boom That’s Going To Make American Cities Way Taller

Floods, Rats, and Dominoes: What’s Ruining Our Cities This Week

This Dreamy Drone Tour Shows the Rebirth of Downtown Los Angeles

Lonely skater explores eerie Los Angeles empty of any cars

10 Years Later, You Can Finally Buy The Best Documentary About L.A.

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