According to Wikipedia, Daybreak in O’Bryonville, the new ArtWorks mural by Kate Holterhoff, borrows motifs from Maxwell Parrish’s iconic Daybreak. While the mural isn’t funny like Scott Donaldson’s Campy Washington, and while it doesn’t pull you into a story like Christian Schmit’s An Epic Tale of Time and Town, its vivid palette is effective in its context. I’m sure this will have an even stronger presence in the dead of winter.
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Enjoy Your Weekend: art and sports.
Daisy Mae’s Market: let’s all welcome this new produce vendor to Findlay Market.
The Art World Goes Local: according to the Wall Street Journal, the mantra “buy local” now extends to the art world.
Space Hotel Says it’s on Schedule to Open in 2012: a bit of anti-local news.
Detroit House Auction Flops for Urban Wasteland: sad tales from Detroit.
City Dreams Illustration Series: bizarre, dense illustrations of life in New York City.
Bike Racks by David Byrne: the Talking Head himself is an avid bicyclist and cycling advocate; now a bike rack designer as well.
When Provident Camera closed earlier this year, I didn’t really hear people mourn its loss. Maybe they accepted that stores like this no longer need to exist in neighborhoods like this. For us, though, the loss was significant, since now we have to go to Kenwood for our specialized light bulbs. In any case, here is the ghost signage Provident has left behind.
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Hot off the presses is our largest serigraph yet –20×28 inches, and three colors. The print shows the Ohio River, downtown, Over-the-Rhine, Mt. Auburn, Clifton, the University of Cincinnati, and parts of Queensgate, the West End, and Mt. Adams. You can recognize the major buildings and landmarks by their distinctive shapes. The coordinates in the lower left corner reference the heart of Fountain Square.
Being from the Northeast, I don’t find Cincinnati’s fall foliage all that impressive. Nonetheless, I’m here now, so I’ve spent the last couple of weeks documenting the best examples of fall color I could find. Over-the-Rhine’s distinguished architecture is, of course, a photogenic backdrop. I’m pretty happy with the results.
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Just completed is our brand-new table runner depicting the Ohio River as rendered in a surveyor’s 1766 drawing, before the founding of Cincinnati. Printed in chocolate brown ink on heavy-weight linen, it measures 19×59 inches and is available in pale green or pale blue at MiCA 12/v in Over-the-Rhine.
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This print is hot off the presses! Entitled Island Queen, the brand-new serigraph is a plum halftone on bright white paper and measures 16×12. It’s available framed at MiCA 12/v in Over-the-Rhine, and unframed in our online shop.
Traces of these ads promoting Paramount Vodka can be found on buildings all over Cincinnati. This one is on Elm St. near Findlay Market; there’s another one just a few blocks away. I’m still not convinced by this “anything goes” claim — what about mashed potatoes or shiatsu? Just how all-encompassing is this statement?
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Thank you, Becky, for interviewing me as part of the Etsy Designers at Home series on Houzz. Check out our decor porn in Etsy Designers at Home: VisuaLingual!
It’s supposed to get up to 74 degrees on this glorious mid-October day, and Macy’s already has its Christmas decorations out in full force. So, now the Christmas season lasts 1/4 of the year?
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