Tile at 12th and Republic

Last week this tile at 12th and Republic was revealed. There’s plenty of debris, but you can definitely make out the pattern and colors. How lovely!

Photography by Costilhes Cyril

Costilhes Cyril, a.k.a. Sikost Instant, is a French photographer, a lot of whose practice involves landscapes and street portraits as subjects.

OTR Ghost Sign

Spotted on Pleasant St. between Green and Elder in OTR, on the back of a building that faces Elm St.

American Beauty

In the summer of 1995, I moved to Oakland and into the only house in which I’ve ever lived. Two friends and I were able to afford the house because we got a break on the rent in exchange for prepping the property for its eventual sale.

Landscape Portraiture by Warner Williams

Warner Williams is a California-based painter of what he terms “landscape portraiture.” Roughly a generation older than Danny Heller, there is a resemblance between the two practices, if only because California provides both with a similar color palette and architecture. Williams trained at Stanford, has exhibited widely across the Bay Area, and is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Grant.

Bubble Car by Symbiotic

Thanks, Symbiotic, for taking Final Friday to the streets last night!

Elsewhere

SI-Bashing Pol a Real Beach Bum: OMFG, the Jersey shore has words with Staten Island!

Shipyards to Sheratons in Gdansk: is it a coincidence that I designed the Sheraton hotel chain’s first web site at my first real job? I no longer think so.

“Poster Boy”: Artist, Vandal, Maker of Funny Things: is this the next Banksy?

Fading Fast: Painted Wall Signs Are Disappearing, But Is Restoration the Answer?: on preserving [or not] ghost signs in the Bay Area.

Great Lakes Urban Exchange: GLUE is an information clearinghouse “founded to promote the power, aid in the positive transformation, and address the shared challenges of similarly-storied older industrial cities situated in the Great Lakes watershed.”

A Locally Grown Diet With Fuss but No Muss: chronicling the emerging “lazy locavore” movement.

Missed Connections: maps of Craigslist’s Missed Connections; lots of Missed Connections in stores across the country; what does that say about people’s social outlets?

Accidental Aphorisms Prints

Accidental Aphorisms is a new collaborative project by VisuaLingual, available as a series of unframed prints via Etsy, or framed at MiCA 12/v in Over-the-Rhine. The background is a white halftone of clouds, while each message is an assemblage of bits of commercial signage found in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati.

Typographic Work by Greg Lamarche

Greg Lamarche is a NYC-based artist who participated in the Creative Time project entitled Dreamland Artist Club in Coney Island in 2004. Those site-specific pieces, as well as his works on paper, reveal a strong affinity for vernacular typography.

Tile at The Sun Building

On 13th St. between Race and Republic in Over-the-Rhine, The Sun Building’s entry boasts a floor tiled in a sunny palette with a geometric border.