Contest!! Contest!!

We want to hear from you! Taking advantage of Transit TV’s interactive system, bus riders can text responses to questions posed at the end of each video by artists and community curators. Questions will be presented in English and Spanish. DVD prizes go to the most creative responses to each video!

How does it work?

• Ride the bus (cost of admission: $1.50)
• Watch the videos. They appear once per hour. A different video each day.
• Text us your response to the question at the end of the video (323.312-5450)
• Selected responses will be posted on our blog and winners announced at the close of the project in November.

July 19, 2013: Clean Square by Jason Jenn & Roland Rodriguez

What would you clean?

• I would clean bus stops.
• I would clean penrose st and glenoaks blvd.
• I would clean-up some of the Grafitti

July 5, 2013: Can You See Me? by Lisa Dianne Wedgeworth

What does she see?

• Un oso

July 1, 2013: Homing by Arjuna Neuman

Where is home for you?

• The home is Hong Kong S.A.R

June 28, 2013: Game Over by Seyed Monsen & Pourmonsehi Shakib

Who are you fighting with?

• I
  Am
  Not
  Fighting
  With
  Anybody!
  Howard
  Shore

June 26, 2013: Fitted Sheets by Unite Here Local 11, Antonio Mendoza

What can we do for her?

• Give her the things she asks for like fitted sheets and mops with handles on them and earth friendly chemicals.

June 24, 2013: Party Time, Excellent by Robin Adams

What is CicLAvia?

• Ciclavia: the largest no-car & no cost cyclist, pedestrian, & cyclist-lovers event in The United States of America! Thousands of people from LA & abroad “cycle up” to represent LA’s’ beautiful cultural mosaic connect to promote: energy conservation, reducing polution, the arts, health & nutrition.

June 14, 2013: Piccolina by Caress Reeves

What is your baggage?

• Hi Caress- just viewed yr animated short on the 240 bus, its grt & i can relate. . . Working day & night to compose music for a friend’s film plus my Sr. recital @ CSUN.

June 7, 2013:  Pupa by Ray Bravo

What do you fear?

• Delete fear from the mind.
• Slender man
• Wax figures are scary to me.
• Wtf?!
• Suffocating in a blanket

May 24, 2013:  L.A. Nature by Julian Brummitt

What is the nature of LA?

• The sea
• The nature of Los Angeles is pollution
• the nature of ..LA is Speed .#LA

May 17, 2013:  The Female Report/ El Reporte Femenil by Carolyn Castano

What is Feminism?

• Lesbianismo !!!
• Feminism means equality for all human beings.

May 6, 2013:   Maria Callas: Portrait by Ian S. Young by David Geathers

Who is Maria Callas?

• MARIA CALLAS is an Opera Singer!
• Thats a beautiful art piece 🙂 You must have well endowed empathy to understand how someone feels enough to illustrate them. Good luck in future endeavor
• Maria Callas considered greatest opera singer of the 20th century. It is why she was known as La Divina: the Divine One. Entombed in Paris Pere LaChaise cemetry
• Maria Callas fue una cantante de opera. Gracias!
• Who is maria callas? Beautiful painting!

April 29, 2013:  Reverie by Jaro Minne

What happens next?

• Have them grown up and the meet each other under the same tree 🙂

November 26-27, 2011: Maravilla Handball Court by Manuel Huerta

What places matter most to you?

• Hawaiii
• The puppeter
• Hollenbeck Youth Center

November 25, 2011: Hood Ornament by Skip Arnold

What would be a good hood ornament?

November 24, 2011:  I (Balloon) L.A. by Michael Rippens

What’s an encounter you had on L.A. streets?

• Saw a guy grab other mans ass in west hollywood on 4. man slapped him.

November 23, 2011: Algae Bloom by Jeff Chabot

Is LA River beautiful or ugly?

November 22, 2011:  No Strings Attached by Pascual Sisto

Who’s pulling the strings?

• Boss is pulling the strings

November 21, 2011:  The Soft Epic, or Savages of the Pacific West by Nadia Hironaka & Matthew Suib

Are we separate from animals?

November 19-20, 2011: Triggernometry by Arnaldo Vargas

What’s your sound track for LA?

November 18, 2011: Ix Chel by Nancy Jean Tucker

What comes out at night?

• The North American Beaver comes out of its den @ night to swim, eat & build.
• Gardeners come out at night
• The freaks
• Scary monsters and super freaks
• The freaks of course
• The Moon
• The Lady of the Lake
• Nocturnal emissions

November 17, 2011: Grapevine Landscan by Center for Land Use Interpretation

What is your escape from L.A.?

• my escape from l.a is el salvador
• Going to the beach
• Day at the beach, no matter how cold it is !
• Im home PROUD TO BE AN ISLANDER GUAM USA
• My escape from la is my dream of returning home to ireland a star.
• my escape from LA is when I close my eyes under a Jacaranda tree while eating an orange from my yard and I can forget that I am in one of the largestcities in the world-while still actually being in that city

November 16, 2011: Take Fountain by Stephen Van Dyck

What do you wish to do but are afraid to? 

• Get married.
• I wish to lead the occupy wall street movement but afraid i may not be understood.
• Im afraid to jump out in the industry and sell my music, maybe Im afraid to make it!
• i have always wanted to but been afraid of yelling at the top of my lungs on the bus
• move to hawaii from L.A by myself

November 15, 2011: Cine(ma) by Paolo Davanzo

Is TV good or bad company?

• Appena visto un tuo video sul’autobus!

November 14, 2011: Juan Fish Testimonial by Arturo Romo- Santillano

What’s poetic about LA?

• Whats poetic about la is the paradox of being the most beautiful most disguisting place ive seen. <3.

November 12, 2011: Jolly Blues by Khari Scott

What do you like about your neighborhood?

• visual display of human fun. It’s much nicer to see than to drive. If the traffic were gone I would absolutely love this place.

November 11, 2011: At the Light of Dawn by Ivan Limas

What meaningful accessory did you see today?

• It look like the artist was representing different ethnic groups by where the handkerchieves were covering on the face. M. Anderson bus210 6pm 11/11/11.
• I just learned about the gangs of california. (Red,white and blue)
• american flag ~*Mrs.W.Jaco*~
• Respuesta del concurso el artista uaba panoletas como accesorio mi nombre es patricia tescier gracias
• sistance when they are ill.
• Great work u need one with chains as a blindfold
• I saw a bandana and there was a guy jerking it in front of the tv105

November 10, 2011: Look at Me by Willie Middlebrook

Are you your face?

• Yes I am what’s your name and can I find ur work online it’s pretty dope

 November 9, 2011: Sustainable Crenshaw by Regina Kimbell

Which traditions contribute to a sustainable future?

November 8, 2011: Traffic by Ann Kaneko

Do crowds scare you?

• Crowds do not scare me. I feel alive and a part of some large collective organism
• hell yeah! Especially if they are angry crowds.
• Yes
• No Crowds Dont Scare Me 🙂

November 7, 2011: Odyssey by Zig Gron

What does this video remind you of?

• That people are walking on to a up hill

November 5-6, 2011: Sign People  by Roman Jaster

What is the oddest job you have had?

• worked promoting drinking beer from a beer bong at a local community college but not encourage under age drinking. Got pulled over by the sheriff.

November 4, 2011: What do you love? by Isabel Avila

What do you love?

• is this the right place to speak to the artist? And give them what love I show?

November 3, 2011: Melrose Whoopee by Poli Marichal

What would your sign say?

• One with the art. Jussi wayne

November 2, 2011: Ad or Art? by Lisa Marr

Can Ads be Art?

• Yes ads can be art and often times are a direct reflection of society’s wants, needs, and values
• yes
• Ads can be art…..Los anuncios tambien pueden ser arte…depende del contexto[context]…..

November 1, 2011: Re/ Trato by Oscar Munoz

Is the impermanent beautiful?

• It is NOT! beautiful
• Its beautiful Adorable-_

October 31, 2011: Ass on the Street by Elana Mann

What is her purpose?

• La mission es llegar a donde va sin k nadie le diga como
• la mision de la mujer es dar vueltas al rededor del vaso.
• Trying to get to the bus stop

October 29-30, 2011: Sound is Good by Tucker Neel

 October 28, 2011: Make-Out Session by Micol Hebron

What do you do alone?

October 27, 2011: Remember Venice by Will Oloudhlen

What has Venice lost?

• affordable housing

October 26, 2011: Transparent Traveler by Jeremy Eichenbaum

What loop are you stuck in?

• lately I’m caught in the M-F loop of #33 E on Venice & IaBrea to work, download lots of music, no lunch, 4:00. . . . Almost time 2 leave, #33 back where I saw your video
• What loop/walkway is it that you used in your video?

October 25, 2011: Host Landscapes: Indian Places in the Los Angeles Basin

Can you imagine L.A. in 1492?

• In 1492, 15th century. Was a time of incredible art. It was the renaissance period with da vinci, michelangelo, raphael,etc.

October 24, 2011: Maravilla Handball Court by Manuel Huerta

What place matters most to you?

• Topanga canyon
• the Ernest Debs Hiking Trail matters to me.

October 22, 2011: Trifecta by Laurel Beckman

Why should some buildings be round ?