An introduction

I'm creating this blog in order to document a three-month, 50 city documentary tour of "Living Room: Space and Place in Infoshop Culture." Courtney and I made this documentary as a final project while getting our BAs at the University of Colorado at Denver. We travelled to six cities interviewing people at infoshops during the summer of 2004. Our project examines the relevance of access to public space and the creation of meaningful interactions and political/social movements. After finishing school last May, we decided that we wanted to continue our research on the importance of place to some extent - and at the least create opportunities to meet interesting people doing interesting projects.

The idea of taking the documentary back to the places where we had interviewed people came up. Soon we had decided that we wanted to leave Denver and experience all kinds of new places, people, events, and moments. Somehow Canada got thrown in there. So we spend the past few months contacting infoshops, community art spaces, micro-cinemas, and universities, setting up video screenings across the U.S. and Canada. And here we are now, at the beginning of our trip.

We have decided to thoroughly document our travels across the country, through photos and writing. Please contact us if you are interested in anything that comes up on this blog.

p.s. We meant to launch this blog before we hit the road, but we ran out of time and are now starting it our third day into the tour, February 26, 2006. Our experiences of the first two days will be posted next when we get access to the computer they are stored on.