What do you get when you add geo-tagged images taken with the Instagram mobile app and a Google Map? Mapstagram! For the photovoyeur-slash-cartography wonk in all of us. Real time updates pinned to locations pop up on the map, with a link to the image. Right now Los Angeles is a little less Instagram-rific (NYC and San Francisco have us beat with volume, hands down).What, are we all Hipstamatic hipsters here? more ›

There are some great music mashups out there, but for video gamers, there is a whole sub-genre of mashups where audio from the "cinematic trailer" of their favorite game is paired up with the visuals from...well, something totally different. For your video lunch today, come with us to the land of magic and enchantment, as technicolor cartoon ponies learn that "Friendship is Magic." Or that the world of "StarCraft II" is as scary as...oh, ponies don't use those words. more ›

Finally, a Google Maps mashup has arrived that will put to rest the age-old debate of Backlot vs Real Place. No one else wonders that!? Fine. It's still fun. Who knows, maybe some juicy cinema was filmed in your neighborhood. Using Google Fusion Tables, the interactive map pinpoints 9,736 locations from the movie sets of IMDB's Top 2,000 films of the past 100 years (1910-2010). more ›

Viva la Soul Coughing. Got the Screenwriter's Blues? You won't for long. Not really sure what to make of all of this, but I cant stop listening. You Are Listening To Los Angeles is a trippy, hypnotic, Los Angeles Police Department scanner stream mashed up with ambient twinkling electronic music. Click the big round button to play. Welcome to your new freakout. more ›

Lots of events bring several food trucks into one place, which allows diners to pick and choose bits from each menu to make up their meal. But this Saturday a handful of trucks are getting together at the Verdugo Bar for a Mobile Mashup, where the trucks themselves will pull from each others' menus, much like music mashups that mix songs up for a whole new taste. more ›

Christmas may be technically over, but that doesn't mean it's too late for something creative. LAist reader and Christmas masher-uper, Daniel "Brat" Barassi, brings us: Paul McCartney vs Peanuts "Peanuts Christmastime." You can download it too. more ›

One thing LAist salivates over is the many Google mashup maps Gothamist gets to show New Yorkers. Here in LA, we're still struggling to find a good number of Los Angeles based Google Maps. We love RentSlicer. LA Eats has potential. What are we missing here? Google Maps Mania, the unofficial Google Maps blog that tracks websites, mashups and tools being influenced by Google Maps, has pointed us towards My California Traffic. Here you... more ›