The LA Flood Project

Welcome to a Sample of the LA Flood Project which will be featured as part of the USC Visions and Voices event: The Mobile Voices of L.A.’s Immigrants, October 27, 7pm, Harris Hall.

The Flood will hit in two waves: in a Twitter Simulation (Oct.20-27) and on the map below.  Navigate to locations on this map to read how the flood has hit Los Angeles.  Or search for QR Codes on USC’s campus that mark sites where the flood has hit. Also, follow along the Twitter Feed: @LAFloodProject.

Open in Google Maps or Try the browser map here

View The LA Flood Project in a larger map

The Fictional Narrative is made up of two kinds of texts:

1. Character Monologues at each stage of the flood.
2. Location Descriptions for each stage of the flood

Click on the map to explore the drafts of the narratives.

Welcome to a Sample of the LA Flood Project. Navigate to locations on this map to read how the flood has hit USC. Follow along the Twitter Feed: @LAFloodProject.

Open in Google Maps (most browsers, Androids, iPhones with Google Maps app) or
Try the browser map here (iPhone w/o Google Maps)

View The LA Flood Project in a larger map

The Fictional Narrative is made up of two kinds of texts:

1. Character Monologues at each stage of the flood.
2. Location Descriptions for each stage of the flood

Click on the map to explore the drafts of the narratives.

Below is the Oral History Google Map for the LA Flood Project. Soon we will be adding links to the audio or video from each pushpin.

Info on the HyperCities map is forthcoming.

The LA Flood Project is now working with Hypercities to add the oral histories and fictional monologues to layers of Los Angeles satellite maps.

More details to come!

To offer a sample of the dramatic character of the piece, here are the some of the Sound Files from our recent demo at HASTAC II at UCLA’s Perloff Hall. Participants would access these over mobile phone.

Cast: Jim Holmes, Matisha Baldwin, Percival Arcibal

Sound Files
LA Flood Intro with Music (Voice Jim Holmes)

Perloff Hall, UCLA, Westwood, demo
(Voice Jim Holmes)

Characters (in 3 stages of the post)
Here each character at three different moments of the flood.

Austin Grant, wealthy Westside, homeowner (Jim Holmes)

Leticia West, news reporter (Matisha Baldwin)

sonny_barstow, weatherman (Percival Arcibal)

…to Los Angeles. and you will be able to experience it through your mobile phones.

This blog will be a site of news updates and announcements including details about our first public demo:

1-3pm, Sat. May 24th, UCLA,

Perloff Hall

Room “De Café”