Coming to Los Angeles and a neighborhood abutting the Los Angeles River in 1980, he became interested in the river and its potential while exploring and using adjacent roadways for biking and hiking. He is currently on the Board of Directors of Friends of the LA River and centers his time on his book Poetry and Politics, a clear depiction of his lifelong work.Ĭharles has spent his career as an environmental and natural resources attorney, as a manager of businesses in those fields, and in the development of nonprofit organizations. Friends of the LA River was able to organize and lead multi-ethnic, multi-racial, multi-class coalitions that stopped major riverfront industrial developments leading to the creation of a pair of State parks in the Cornfield and the Taylor railroad yards.
His pamphlet, D-Town Visions: Building A City The River Can Be Proud Of, was published at the beginning of 2008 by The Natural Resources Defense Council. Among FOLAR’s many projects are “La Gran Limpieza,” the Great Los Angeles River Clean-Up, the largest urban river clean-up in the United States a summer length riverfront cabaret, The Frog Spot, that has welcomed nearly 40,000 visitors a collaboration with the Aquarium of the Pacific, a K-12 “River School” outdoor education curriculum the “Los Angeles River Rover,” a 38-foot recreational vehicle designed as a mobile classroom and the first reports on legal access to fishing on the L.A.River. In the years since, FOLAR has become the River’s most important and influential advocate, with an E- newsletter and social media that reaches over 60,000 people. In 1986, MacAdams created Friends of the LA River, a “forty-year artwork” to bring the Los Angeles River back to life. I really hope you are okay.Īnyway, I absolutely love watching The Meat Factory videos every time, mind blowing, the Children's Asylum Day/Night videos also are something special.Lewis MacAdams is an American poet, journalist, political activist and journalist. I really enjoyed your simple touches, editing and narration. If you are struggling and hit a brick wall, go back to your roots, keep it simple, don't go overboard, don't try to best yourself or your work. Frustration and tetchy, like he doesn't have the same passion he once did.ĭan, I hope you are okay, and I really appreciate the work you have been doing and your work has a special place in my heart.
It wasn't until earlier this year watching ADR with my girlfriend that she started to notice Dan changing, his attitude and overall vibe. I actually felt a connection to Dan as well when these videos come out and I used to look on YT every morning hoping a new video was uploaded. They weren't about ghosts, weren't about what the other huge urban exploration channels were doing, it was about the architecture, the study of the past, the sadness of vandalisation and how much society has changed, yet funnily enough it still had this 'creepy edge' to it that kept you clinging onto your seat.
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They were just so simple, yet full of longing. The editing, narration and never knowing where he's going to explore next.
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