Elsewhere

Save the Davis: this Monday, an attempt to prevent the demolition of the David Furniture Building in Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati.

NKY Scholar House to Offer Housing, Programming for Low-Income Student-Parents: very cool.

All the Places the New York Times Has Compared to Brooklyn: two surprises — New Orleans and the Hamptons, plus a bunch of the usual suspects.

Bollards, Bricks and Black Cabs: Why the Best Urban Objects Are Mundane: the Museum of the Mundane celebrates just that in London.

Tennessee Wonderland: Exploring an Abandoned Neighborhood and Hotel in the Tennessee Mountains: a haunting, in-depth look at the abandoned town we stumbled onto in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park earlier this year.

Half of the United States Lives in These Counties: weird/interesting map/stat stuff.

Since the 1970s a Man Has Been Planting a Forest Larger than Central Park, One Tree at a Time: a fascinating endeavor.

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Before I Die [Cincinnati Edition] by Candy Chang

The designer and public artist Candy Chang is absolutely one of my heroines, and her Before I Die project is a clever tool kit that has been deployed on walls in cities all over the world. Here it is in Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati!

Open Walls Baltimore

Located in the Station North neighborhood of Baltimore, Open Walls Baltimore is a collection of about two dozen public murals by street artists from around the world, curated by Gaia.

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

See Cincinnati: an ongoing treasure hunt of Cincinnati’s stories.

Index of Awesome: collecting awesomeness in Covington; nominate your favorite anything.

Digital Graffiti: street art using system errors, dialog boxes and other computer-related messages.

Detroit Lives!: Detroit-based creative agency working on place-based projects that do well and do good.

Neighborhood Story Project: working with writers in neighborhoods around New Orleans to create books about their communities.

Build Your Own New York: postcard models of NYC buildings.

A Rare Glimpse at the Williamsburg Bridge Railway Terminal: just that.

Elsewhere

House of Musicians: Digging Cincinnati investigates the history of 1223 Jackson St. in Over-the-Rhine.

The New French Hacker-Artist Underground: in Paris, a group has “carried out shocking acts of cultural preservation and repair.” Indeed.

Neighborhood Story Project: documenting people and place in New Orleans through interviews and photographs.

Complaint Box: Local Hypocrites: loving local versus shopping local in NYC.

Change by Us NYC: “a place to share ideas, create projects, discover resources, and make our city better.”

Soul of Brooklyn: just that, in the form of a snazzy web site.

Abandoned America: “an autopsy of the American dream” with tons of photos.

Field Guide to the Vanity License Plates of Southwestern Ohio: Part 2

Kind readers, I know you’ve been impatiently waiting for the next installment in my typological series on the vanity license plates of Southwestern Ohio, and here it is! Today, we’re taking a look at sports messaging, and possibly adult content. Above, BARECAT. Pun-prone UC fan or porn mogul? It’s impossible to know for sure.

Elsewhere

Sunday Walk: CityKin explores Cincinnati.

Charley Harper Artwork in Todd Oldham’s House: tons of eye candy in an awesome treehouse in the woods of Pennsylvania.

Before I Die: a participatory installation in New Orleans by the always amazing Candy Chang.

If These Knishes Could Talk: “a film about the New York accent.”

Build the Town: bad-ass building blocks by Ladislav Sutnar.

Berlin’s Guerrilla Gardeners Cultivate Rebellion: yes.

Exotic Bodega Cats Caught on Tape in Their Natural Habitat: just that.

50 Ideas for the New City

This poster series is for the Architectural League’s Urban Omnibus, part of the Festival of Ideas for the New City, taking place this week in NYC. It was designed by the Civic Center in a style reminiscent of vintage advertising.

Elsewhere

Biodiversity Bombs: our seed bombs at UncommonGoods.

Next Take Starting Soon at Famed Brooklyn Movie Palace: the long-shuttered Loew’s Kings Theatre in Brooklyn is ready for its reincarnation.

Cincinnati: A Tale of Two Brands: dissecting the Queen City’s image problem.

Coney Island – Abandoned Playland: amazing photographs by Nathan Kensinger.

Indianapolis Must Reinvent Itself Again: The Urbanophile on Naptown.

The New Orleans Corner Store: excellent essay on the phenomenon.

Two Boots Introducing the CBGB Slice: punk pizza?