The Wilderness Downtown is an interactive movie made about the street you grew up on. Awesome concept built in HTML5 by Chris Milk and some help from google, plus the birds fly away from your mouse.
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A Love Letter For You in Syracuse.
via TWBE.
Tokyo subway manner poster, September 1976
As some of you know, I’m a big fan of imagery of super heroes using non-super methods of transportation.
Via Pink Tentacle – Thanks to Will for the heads up on this site.
Two more featuring the Man of Steel (how did they get the license to do that??).
Continue reading ‘Don’t throw chewing gum on the platform – Superman on the subway.’
Nothing like a hard earned beer after a longs night’s work.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer:
“A PennDot archaeological team arrived at a dig under I-95 this morning to find two men drinking beer and sitting on a 20-foot-long torpedo they apparently had found hours earlier in the Delaware River.”
This is from the same stretch of river that Bill and I visited and where Ryan and I found a beach full of bricks (but no torpedoes).
And as for the PennDot guys – Kick that torpedo – KICK IT.
Does anyone else think this video looks like midterm project in a high school A/V class? SO GOOD.
ALSO, watch Daryl and Chromeo play I Can’t Go For That
I’m going to bookmark this now for this coming February.
From the annual trip down the shore. A few more after the break
Continue reading ‘Beach Time’
Our buddy Marco Depaolis apparently had a show last month last month at the 4th wall project. Looks like it was cool, hope I hear about the next one before its over.
To be released next month.
“Created between October and December 2005, this haunting series of images serves as a potent, unalloyed document of the raw experiences of those left to fend for themselves in the aftermath of Katrina. With no essay, titles, or even page numbers in the way, the words on these homes, cars, and trees offer a searing testament that continues to speak volumes, five years since their original inscription.” – Art Book.
Destroy this Memory: Photographs by Richard Misrach
15 x 11 ½ in. (38.1 x 29.2 cm)
140 pages; 70 four-color images
Hardcover
ISBN 978-1-59711-163-8
Thanks to Isaac for the tip.
Wild Ammo hase this really cool collection of photos by Arthur S. Mole and John D. Thomas of american symbols made from a mosaic standing soldiers. . .awesome!
Just got a new computer and I’m back
Lightning strikes three of the tallest buildings in Chicago at the same time! from Craig Shimala on Vimeo.
Continue reading ‘Lightning strikes over Chicago in slow motion video’
Paul Philippoteaux, 1884.
27 feet high and 359 feet in circumference.
More images after the break.
Continue reading ‘Gettysburg Cyclorama’
Megawords will be celebrating the release of their thirteenth issue with a party as part of the annual Art & Soul Food celebration in Brewerytown, Philadelphia. They are also putting together a street level installation inside an old news stand on the corner of 27th and Girard. Check it out.
Megawords Release Party
Saturday June 12
Noon – 9pm
27th and Girard
Directions and more info here.
