What are your plans for Sat 21 Nov, noon-6pm? I really hope they include checking out the Crafty Supermarket at the Northside Tavern. We’ll be there, along with 20 other artsy, crafty, designy makers, music by Projectmill, the Dojo Gelato cart, and a table set up for on-the-spot DIY projects. Here’s a sampling of what we’ll have for sale.
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Get Fired Up at Funke Fired Arts!: my feature on one of the most unique creative facilities in Cincinnati.
Suburban Tipi: this project by Cranbrook student John Paananen takes “the fused nomadic home designs of the yurt, tipi, and igloo” and slips “the straitjacket of suburban values, materials, and methods of construction over them.”
Nastiest Retailer in New York Barks at Customers and Eats Workers’ Food : Ha! I always thought that The Sock Man was having a sordid affair with his street-vending neighbor, the crystal lady.
I’ll Meet you at Valencia and Falcon: an 1861 map of San Francisco shows the planned street grid extension and proposed street names that didn’t make the cut.
Pittsburgh Travel Poster: JHill Design is currently discounting its Pittsburgh Travel poster in celebration of the Steelers’ Superbowl victory.
Brooklyn Redrawn: “Sarah Bostwick, Rebecca Layton, and Karla Wozniak all draw upon Brooklyn’s past and present urban structures to convey the visual complexity of competing commercial, architectural, and real estate interests in the borough in which they work and live.”
Dude Has Red Hook’s Demolished Revere Dome Tattooed on His Shoulder: speaking of drawing Brooklyn, there’s this…
According to a recent Pew Research Trust survey, 84% of the people surveyed who do not live in Cincinnati would not like to live here. Cincinnati is marginally more popular than Cleveland and Detroit. But, only 23% of the respondents even claim cities as “their favorite community type.”
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Speaking of pranky interventions, artists Robin Hewlett and Ben Kinsley worked with the people behind Google Street Views to inject some absurd scenarios into Google’s documentation of Sampsonia Way in Pittsburgh. Their Street with a View includes an escape [above], marching band [below], a man wearing a chicken suit, fake marathon, garage band practice, sword fight, and firemen rescuing a kitty from a tree.
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I’ve featured the talented illustrator Ian Dingman on this site before, but his work is worthy of showing again. To kick off November, here is his haunting Monoliths in November.
Just Past Central: another Over the Rhine blog; welcome to the blogospheric microcosm!
It’s All About the D: tomorrow, a free summer festival celebrating what’s hot, cool and funky in Detroit, on Heidelberg and Elba Sts. between Mt. Elliott and Ellery.
Where: “a blog about urban places, placemaking, and the concept of ‘place.’”
Current State of Innovation… Say What?: the Agents of Urbanism have some harsh words about the new Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis and its so-called “innovative architecture.” Sorry, Just for View…
Young Farmers Find Fertile Ground in City: urban farming in Pittsburgh by the Landslide Community Farm.
Why I Prefer to Live in a Failing Neighbourhood: contrarian thoughts on the city written by a Londoner.
Columbia Ecovillage: on the other end of the spectrum, a green co-housing condo village in Portland, OR.
Valerie Lueth and Paul Roden are partners in the Pittsburgh-based Tugboat Printshop. Their work is both charming and varied but, today, I’d like to showcase Paul’s wonderful woodcuts. Pictured above is Dirty Livin’: A Simultaneous Narrative of Suburban Adolescence.
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