Wynwood is a neighborhood in Miami whose warehouses now contain a mixture of industry, wholesale distributors, galleries and artist studios. It’s also home to one of the largest collections of street art in the world. Above is part of a mural by the legendary Ron English [confusingly, there's a Cincinnati-based artist also named Ron English, who sometimes sells his wares on the streets of Over-the-Rhine].
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Regional Report: Cincinnati: checking out the local culinary scene in an issue of Good Food Magazine from 1986.
OTR Building to House Entrepeneurs, Squash Courts: I’m really glad that squash was explained in this article, because I totally thought that it involves ponies.
Home Gift Guide: a shout-out to our Edible Garden Seed Bomb Kit from Modestics, a blog about US-based design and manufacturing.
Gift-Giving Ideas: Consumables Are More Than Chocolates and Wine: some gift guide love for our regional wildflower seed bombs.
The Fight to Save Frank Lloyd Wright’s Phoenix Legacy: I only spent a few hours in Phoenix; it’s apparently a crazy place when it comes to [not] preserving its history.
Is It Art? On Venice Beach, Police Can Make the Call: on the iconic Los Angeles boardwalk, a new tactic to preserve neighborhood quirkiness.
Concrete Oases: not that Cornell University in scenic Ithaca, NY really needs more nature, but students have gotten pocket park-like grass, comfy chairs and potted plants in lounge areas.
City View: Cincinnati Embraces Old and New: VL represents Over-the-Rhine in this article about Cincinnati style.
Found: The Jackson Hill Steps: discovering a long-hidden piece of OTR’s history.
Autocomplete Coloring Book: some love for the catalog I designed for an exhibit at Visionaries & Voices earlier this year.
“The Cleveland Architecture Coloring Book” Lets You Track And Color The City’s Great Buildings: speaking of coloring books…
Movie Theaters: a gorgeous photographic portfolio by Hiroshi Sugimoto, featuring images from NYC, LA, Canton, and Akron.
Cunard Building: a rare glimpse into an ornate NYC building.
Spooky Background Paintings from ‘Scooby-Doo’: just that.
The exhibition I organized at Visionaries & Voices, Autocomplete: A Collaborative Coloring Book Exhibit is on view in the V&V Gallery through the end of June, and the catalog is now available for purchase online.
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Gulf of Thailand 1 by James Reeve
Photographer James Reeve was born in London and now lives in Marseille. His series Lightscapes Project explores the landscape at night, focusing on graphic patterns of light in lieu of architecture and infrastructure, in cities including London, Las Vegas and Los Angeles.
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What’s in a Name?: GOOD looks at some interesting and bizarre neighborhood names across the US, including our very own Over-the-Rhine.
Check Out Sunset Triangle Plaza, LA’s First Pedestrian Plaza: urban progress in Los Angeles.
Machine Project: an interesting storefront space in LA that hosts scientific talks, poetry readings, musical performances, cheese tastings, etc.
Bleecker Timeline: Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York presents a comprehensive and depressing look at the changes on Bleecker St.
Build Your Own New York: just that, using a set of postcards folded into miniature buildings.
Of Wires and Weeds: interesting analysis of The Wire and Weeds [for the record, I love the former but haven't really been able to get into the latter].
Photo of a beach in Mumbai: crazy.
Close to Columbus: Over-the-Rhine: Columbus Underground checks out OTR!
my3CDC: Taking Back the Center City!: a response to 3CDC.
A New Park in LA Takes the City Back to Its Natural Roots: transforming an old bus yard into the city’s largest urban wetland.
It’s Not a Fairytale: Seattle to Build Nation’s First Food Forest: just that.
New York Water Tanks to Be Transformed into Works of Art: I’m excited to see what participants Ed Ruscha and Lawrence Weiner do with this, but why exactly is Jay-Z involved?
An “Empathetic Observer” of 1950s New York: the recently discovered work of street photographer Oscar Larson.
Map On, Map Off: crazy self-folding map!
In what seems to be turning into a tradition for us, we took a long-ass walk through Brooklyn on Christmas morning, exploring with relatively few other people around. Our destination was Love Letter to Brooklyn by Stephen Powers a.k.a. ESPO, which went up a few months ago on the Macy’s parking garage in downtown Brooklyn.
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OMFG!!! Chris Burden’s Metropolis II measures 10×28 feet and includes 30-40 buildings, 13 railroad tracks, 18 car lanes, and 1,100 toy cars. Approximately 100,000 cars circulate through this dense city each hour.
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“This is going green 1949-style, bitch.” Ice Cube is a Renaissance Man!
