Seed Bombs in Lebanon, OH

Our Midwest seed bombs are now available at Marvin’s Organic Gardens in Lebanon, OH. Marvin’s is a full-service nursery, landscape design company, retail and garden center specializing in organic, natural and safe gardening practices, located 30 minutes north of downtown Cincinnati.

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VisuaLingual Home in a Quilting Book

Sheesh, I’d forgotten all about this until the other day — a couple of years ago, our apartment was used for a photo shoot for the quilting book Black & White and Pieced All Over by Kay M. Capps Cross. Here are some of the photos that made their way into the book!

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Elsewhere

Four Months in the Tumultuous Short Life of the Shepard Fairey Mural: it was the best of times and it was the worst of times for a short-lived muraltisement at Houston and Bower in NYC. EV Grieve managed to capture all the subtle iterations. Owl’s Head Light: a visit to a lighthouse in Maine. Andy [...]

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Ice Cream Daydream by Amanda Checco

If you’ve found yourself around 12th and Jackson Streets in Over-the-Rhine lately, you’ve surely noticed this trippy little mural overlooking the parking lot. Entitled Ice Cream Daydream, it was recently completed by artist Amanda Checco and her team of teen apprentices from ArtWorks. We know this site well — this is the side of the [...]

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Eleven Heavy Things by Miranda July

Eleven Heavy Things by Miranda July is a temporary installation in Union Square, originally created for the Venice Biennale. It includes eleven sculptures, which the artist calls photo props, that look a bit like giant white marshmallows.

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Cincinnati Color Company Ghost Sign in Over-the-Rhine

One of these days, this sign will disappear, so I’m documenting it now for that moment, so that I can point to these photos and “remember way back when.” Vine Street in OTR is changing rapidly, and I alternate between obsessively trying to capture each stage in its metamorphosis, to shrugging and trying not to [...]

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Seed Bombs in Newport, RI

Our East Coast seed bombs are now available at Green Envy, a boutique located at 223 Goddard Row in Newport, RI, which specializes in “helping people look great and feel great about sustaining the planet,” and which only carries products that are organic, fair trade, or eco-friendly.

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Elsewhere

Unofficial Etsy Featured Seller: VisuaLingual: an interview with us, in which we discuss our design process, inspiration, and plans for the future, in addition to sharing some tips that have worked for our business. “Hallowed Ground”: “A few photos of stuff the same distance from the World Trade Center as the ‘Ground Zero Mosque.’” Framing [...]

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100 Acres: Free Basket by Los Carpinteros

Havana-based Los Carpinteros is the art collective of Marco Antonio Castillo Valdés and Dagoberto Rodríguez Sánchez. Free Basket is their recently installed project in 100 Acres, the just-opened sculpture park at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, along with Bench Around the Lake by Jeppe Hein and Eden II by Tea Mäkipää.

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A Gathering by Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz

An altogether-too-brief trip back to NYC afforded me a few opportunities to see public art I hadn’t before, including this set of 174 bronze sculptures of birds. A Gathering by Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz is installed all over the Canal Street station’s railings in little groups. It made me do a double take.

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