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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  • The Big Deuce
    1/9/25

    The Big Deuce

    Mike decompresses aboard the 2 bus in Columbus, Ohio, during the after-work rush.

  • Columbus Railroad
    11/20/24

    Columbus Railroad

    Because model train sets aren't beholden to cancellation by a boondoggle governor...

  • WANDA's Legacy
    5/7/24

    WANDA's Legacy

    Mike reflects on the little ways that WANDA has made a difference, and finds inspiration taking stock on all the positive changes in our communities that often don’t get shown on TV.

  • From Salt Lake City, Utah
    9/27/17

    From Salt Lake City, Utah

  • Top of the Campus
    8/27/23

    Top of the Campus

    Mike marvels at the transformation underway in Columbus and around The Ohio State University since moving away in 2017, including acres and acres of parking garages.

  • The Circle
    1/22/23

    The Circle

    Walking around one of America’s largest traffic circles.

  • The Walk
    4/21/23

    The Walk

    Despite the stigmas of not owning a car, walking affords a much more intimate relationship with the places I live.

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