by Alicia | Mar 2, 2015 | KCET Los Angeles, News, Writing
Let’s make my story into a documentary! Just vote here: http://www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/vote/vote-manifest-destiny-billboard-project-vs-da-vinci-apartments-controversy.html Meanwhile, read the story. . . There’s a stretch of Interstate 10 from...
by Alicia | Mar 1, 2015 | News, ReadWrite, Writing
Facebook announced a new feature Tuesday that allows friends to send money to one another through its Messenger app. But that comes at the risk of sharing even more details of your personal life with the social network. The process is simple. Facebook added a money...
by Alicia | Mar 1, 2015 | News, ReadWrite, Writing
Instaspam sounds kind of funny when you first hear about it. But that moment when you suddenly get a flood of fake Instagram followers, requests to like a post back or, worse, linkbait comments telling you how to get more followers can make for a serious annoyance....
by Alicia | Feb 25, 2015 | Hyperallergic, News, Writing
LOS ANGELES — Benjamin Lord’s grossly delectable photographs, on view in his exhibition The New Retail Mycology at Monte Vista Projects, invite viewers to closely consider the social construction of a landscape. In each of the seven photographs on display, viewers...
by Alicia | Feb 23, 2015 | News, ReadWrite, Writing
Beware, expressionistic faces of Simpsonesque yellow hue and traditional nuclear families—your emoji dominance of texting is drawing to a close. Apple has unveiled new, diverse sets of emoji representing a variety of ethnicities and family types in the latest beta...
by Alicia | Feb 20, 2015 | News, ReadWrite, Writing
Thursday, Facebook announced the addition of a free-form field to the Gender options area in Facebook profiles. The new “custom” option space allows users to write in any description they want—whether “dog-loving master of bro-associated...
