Elsewhere

Cincinnati 2012: how lovely to end the year with a time lapse showing downtown, Over-the-Rhine and much more.

How to Have Your Heart Broken Every Year: on the perils of gardening in Over-the-Rhine.

Paige’s Favorite Things: wow, we’re in a great company in this roundup of Cincinnati-centric goods, courtesy of Cincy Whimsy.

Habitat for Humanity Takes a Modern Tack: inspiring homes built in Charlottesville, Seattle and Portland.

The Oldest Photo Ever Taken of New York City: a daguerreotype of the Upper West Side from 1848.

Strong Towns: “passionate about the future of America’s cities, towns and neighborhoods.”

Unmiserable Cleveland: just that.

Cincinnati Constellation by Caleb Charland

Cincinnati Constellation is a photo installation by Portland, ME-based Caleb Charland and a team of ArtWorks apprentices. Installed in October as part of FotoFocus, it is on view inside Findlay Market in Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati through December 2012.

The Art of Matte Stephens

Manhattan by Matte Stephens

Portland, OR-based Matte Stephens is sort of the love child of Georges Damin and Mark Coomer, with a hint of Nicholas Takis and a touch of Jim Flora in the mix, sprinkled with a garnish of early Charley Harper. His gouache paintings are very much rooted in the forms and colors of the middle of the 20th century, and I especially like his scenes of different cities.

Elsewhere

Straight Off the Vine // Restoring Community Connections: a short documentary on the Cincinnati community group Spring in Our Steps.

Renewed Pleas to Clean Up Crosley Building: Criminal Charges Filed: an update on the abandoned building in Cincinnati’s Camp Washington neighborhood.

11 Things That DO Work in Ohio: from a transplant to Cincinnati, first came a list of things that don’t work and now some things that do work well here.

Dogwood Wedding Inspiration: the Wedding Chicks like our seed bombs as wedding favors.

The Fall of the Creative Class: a harsh critique of Richard Florida’s popular theory, with anecdotes from Portland, Madison and Minneapolis.

An Artist Reinvents Architectural Photography via iPhone: a profile of Lynette Jackson, who makes magic happen with her iPhone.

The 2,800 Hour Studio: the designer Elliott Earls worked with Cranbrook Architecture students on the design and construction of his summer studio on the shore of Lake Leelanau.

Elsewhere

Cincinnati Enquirer Mistakes Downtown Marietta for Downtown Cincinnati!: umm…

Film Screening: Urbanized by Gary Hustwit: Monday night at the Contemporary Arts Center in downtown Cincinnati.

The King Street Lots in Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York: the history of a community garden in Brooklyn.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Heller House Hits the Market Today: only $2.5 million for a well-maintained 1897 beauty in Chicago.

Deciduous Lampposts by luzinterruptus: an amazing temporary public art installation in Madrid.

SOM Chicago Wins Competition to Design the Wujiang Greenland Tower: insanity featuring a 30-story tall operable window.

Brokelandia — Did You Eat It?: for fans of Portlandia, this definitely counts as meta humor, but it’s well done.

Elsewhere

Holiday Gift Guide: Goody Two-Shoes: our seed bombs in Foam Magazine.

Vine Street Circa 1973: courtesy of Fuck Yeah Cincinnati.

Mercer Commons Design Gets Thumbs Down: the struggle to add appropriate infill to the historic Over-the-Rhine neighborhood in Cincinnati.

What’s Your State Good at?: Ohio “currently ranks first in the production of Swiss cheese.” Who knew?

It’s a Google Streetmap of History: How Our Famous Landmarks Looked Up to 170 Years Ago: British streetscapes, now and then.

A Hope VI Gallery: examples from Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Atlanta, Seattle, Philadelphia, Knoxville, Portland, San Francisco, and St. Louis.

Swedish Treehouse Hotel Imitates Shapes Both Real and Imagined: bizarre but respectful architecture suspended among trees in the Swedish village of Hrads.

The Four Portlanders of the Apocalypse by Liv Rainey-Smith

Portland, OR-based artist Liv Rainey-Smith created this series, entitled The Four Portlanders of the Apocalypse, as part of her BFA thesis at the Oregon College of Art and Craft. An interpretation of The Revelation to John, it focuses on a unicyclist, Vespa rider, dreadlocked bicyclist, and a Segway rider with a goatee.

Everything Ohio Poster by Draplin Design Co.

When you look up “badass” in the dictionary, this might just be the image that accompanies the definition. Seriously, how cool is this poster from the Draplin Design Co.? It even includes one of Charley Harper‘s iconic cardinals!

US State Prints by Amy Ruppel

Born and raised in rural Plymouth, WI and currently living in Portland, OR, artist and illustrator Amy Ruppel has recently been working on a series of limited-edition prints representing US states, which are available in her Etsy shop.

Elsewhere

A House Divided: Soap Opera in Cincinnati: the battle to save the historic Gamble House; also see The Gamble House, Before and After.

Ault & Armleder Park (Fog in the Prairie, Linwood Public School, Our Lady of Loretta, Murdock Fountains): exploring Cincinnati, one sunrise at a time.

About All Those “Portland” Lifestyle Trends…: a smackdown from a former New Yorker now living in Portland, OR.

Update Your Garden with Fun and Fresh Ideas from Etsy: our West Coast seed bombs on Planet Green.

Travel to: Yee Haw Industries – Knoxville, TN: Nikki of Not Made in China visits the letterpress mecca.

Spotted On Montrose Avenue: HYacinth 7-2041: a strange homage in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

East Village Cupcake Crawl to Benefit NYC Homeless: noted without comment.