Open Mike LIVE

This archive chronicles over 7 years of video posts made by Mike George on the Facebook Live platform, highlighting various locations around the United States and Canada:

- Columbus, Ohio

- Portland, Oregon

- Montreal, Quebec

- Alexandria, Louisiana

- Steubenville, Ohio

Made by Mike

  • Trans || Americas

    This collection remembers the 25,000 miles I shared traveling in 2017 through 13 Western states with my boyfriend Matt, a long-haul flatbed truck driver.

    Climb Aboard

  • Pardon My French

    This collection covers Mike’s time living in Montreal in 2018-19.

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  • Humility, Listening, & Understanding
    12/4/22

    Humility, Listening, & Understanding

    Mike reflects on how social media and the internet has fundamentally changed the way we talk to each other in real life - listening to respond vs. listening to understand.

    Perhaps a dose of humility would enrich this form of conversation. Divided we fall - to some of the worst people imaginable…

  • The Portland She-bacle
    9/7/22

    The Portland She-bacle

    Two years after the 2020 West Coast wildfires, Mike opens up and shares the series of traumatic events he faced mere months after moving to Portland, Oregon.

  • Double Rainbow
    11/14/20

    Double Rainbow

    A double rainbow unexpectedly greets us while enjoying some music from Hairspray the Musical, days following the 2020 election.

  • Election Party
    11/11/20

    Election Party

    Celebrations in downtown Portland in November 2020, following Joe Biden and Kamala Harris's presidential election victory.

  • Waterfalls
    10/4/20

    Waterfalls

    Mike embraces a waterfall at a suburban Portland cafe to accompany it with some TLC.

  • The Apocalypse is Nigh
    9/9/20

    The Apocalypse is Nigh

    The moon is red in the sky, shrouded by the thick smoke from the wildfires surrounding Portland, Oregon, in August 2020.

Journals & Musings

  • Figuring Things Out

    2013-2020

    Graphics are colorful, they invite a myriad of differing interpretations, they portray trends, etc.  Plus, they're less prone to language barriers.

    Figures make complicated concepts easier to understand, simplify, and organize. Plus, I was too lazy to write longwinded essays anymore.

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  • My Little Corner of Semi-Reality

    2004-2013

    My life is an open book. Please don't burn it.

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Holiday kickoff weekend in Columbus
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PREACH. Pretty much the basis of how WANDA was conceived.
Around Columbus