This week's Flipboard cover is an Instagram pic I took while stopped in traffic on the 405
HIghway in Los Angeles (without GPS in my car and a map in the trunk!)

Has it already been a whole week? I have just returned home after several exhilarating days in Los Angeles on a research trip to both the UCLA Film and Television Archive and the Margaret Herrick Library at The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. As part of my project I was looking at archival documents, posters, scripts, and yes films!, from the period of the late 1920's and early 1930's related to avant-garde filmmaker Paul Fejos. It was fantastic getting to look at materials from this era, and all of the librarians and archivists I encountered were incredibly helpful and very patient with my questions and queries. I even tried to get into the spirit of the visit by staying at a hotel that used to be an apartment house for silent cinema starts-- it is a great little hotel in Beverly Hills called The Crescent, I highly recommend it. While in Los Angeles, I was able to see some great art exhibitions and later this week I will blog about my visit to the Getty Museum and Research Institute, a must see for any art and architecture lover visiting the area.

Between visits, I was watching my social media feeds and saved several articles, links, and videos into this week's Flipbook. Follow this link to check out the complete magazine (see this link to learn how you can download the Flipboard app to your mobile device), or see a few of the standout articles linked directly below: