It's like a different world in the heart of the city. This is a truly amazing work.

Beautiful work!

What an amazing online educational resource for the L.A. River!!! The Friends of the Los Angeles River thank you for creating a truly unique way for people to engage with THEIR River and its community!

Just a wonderful way to engage the public in the Los Angeles River. Knowing many of the people featured here make it a rich and meaningful experience. Thank you!

What a fantastic web site. I only hope this will remain a free resource for everyone to wishes to learn and explore. I used to walk the LA river many years ago. I hope they can convert it back to what it once was. Aaron Canton Ga

I applaud bringing notice to the LA River and work of Friends of the LA River. I think the webdesign here could be better, though. Where things work best is in the Audio Portraits area. The Video Portraits are just bizarre and a waste of bandwidth given that they're not too much different than still photography. It would have been more interesting to see these folks at work on the river and hear their opinions about the river and their relationship to it. I hope the site will be re-worked to give more information about the history, flora, fauna and restoration efforts related to the LA River. That said, thanks for the site and the audio collages of various points on the LA River.

good job hope yall have fun makin more storys

This is a documentary with depth. Almost a choose your own adventure documentary. I can brows conversations, videos, and art either geographically or by list. This is reminding me of a Cezanne exhibit I saw which highlighted how Cezanne painted both the top of an object and the side of an object at the same time using a kind of forced perspective--this is a way to see all angles of the LA River at once.

I especially liked your delving into upstream areas like Watts, which are connected to the LA River in more subtle ways.

You are setting the bar for web based projects. The structure of the website is natural, open, and lets you dive in the river as something which goes much further than a natural, geographical event. The river flows in time, it has cultural, urban, ecological dimensions which can be explored in a playful, beautiful way.
I did love the video portraits. In particular the ones in which nothing happens in the background. There is something disturbing about them, time is passing and nothing is happening, is it really a video?, and suddenly the shirt sleeve is moved slightly by the wind.

There are no photos of the ulgy Union Pacific Freight trains or any mention of their loud train horns that blow night and day along the path of the Los Angeles River.

Councilmember Ed Reyes does not care about human beings and their right to peace and quiet for those that have to live near the river. He does not care about the air and noise pollution coming from the Union Pacific Freight trains. And, what about the noise and air pollution coming out of the MTA bus station at Avenue 26 just a couple of blocks from the river? Let's see someone take some action about noise and air pollution in the area.

And, I suppose others do not care either. What about quality of life for people that live there?

And, the river is not a river. It is a drainage ditch.

Dear Susan Rocha - It may appear, to you, to be nothing but a drainage ditch. But, let me reassure you it is a river. It is fed by the water that flows down from the mountains that surround you. Unfortunately, our early city government/planners thought to contain it with cement after one too many floods was not fraught with foresight.