San Francisco - Street
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lunedì 28 novembre 2011
NYC - Dead drops
Dead Drops 'How to' - NYC
aram bartholl on Vimeo.
deaddrops.com/
‘Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space. USB flash drives are embedded into walls, buildings and curbs accessable to anybody in public space. Everyone is invited to drop or find files on a dead drop. Plug your laptop to a wall, house or pole to share your favorite files and data. Each dead drop is installed empty except a readme.txt file explaining the project. ‘Dead Drops’ is open to participation. If you want to install a dead drop in your city/neighborhood follow the ‘how to’ instructions and submit the location and pictures.
awesome soundtrack by
Young Blood – The Naked And Famous
(via fffff.at/autumn-mix-2010/ by Theo)
2010
giovedì 24 novembre 2011
lunedì 21 novembre 2011
domenica 20 novembre 2011
San Francisco - Bikeway mural
San Francisco - Bikeway mural
USA, San Francisco, StreetArt : bikeway mural
www.monacaron.com/mural.html
The Bikeway mural by Mona Caron
"The mural celebrates and enriches the car-free public space created by the new Duboce Avenue Bikeway-the first time cars have been excluded from a San Francisco street to make room for bikes and pedestrians. The mural emphasizes the special role in the city of the bikeway itself: At the center of the block long, 6,075 square foot mural is a depiction of the bikeway itself, (complete with its mural,) in geographic and historical context along the ancient streambed which cyclists follow to avoid hills. (The zig-zagging route is now known as "the Wiggle.") To the east of the Wiggle is Downtown, to the West, residential neighborhoods, Golden Gate Park and, finally, the beach.
The mural extols the joys of bicycling, walking, skating etc, but it also alludes to the political and ecological implications of choosing to get around by non polluting, low budget means: Towards the west (right) end of the mural, a close up view of the ground, where plants and the footprints of animals mingle with a bike track, symbolizes the closer connection to, awareness of, and low impact on nature that such a choice brings.
At the east end of the wall (downtown), Market Street's bicycles are seen transforming into pedal-powered flying machines which rise out of the morass of pollution and gridlock. The scene alludes to the subversive nature of Critical Mass in particular, and generally symbolizes the freedom experienced by those with visions of alternatives to the status quo, represented in the mural by frowning corporate skyscrapers. Each of the flying contraptions trails its pilot's dream of utopia in the form of a golden banner. The whole rest of the mural, westwards from this scene, starts in the shape of one of these golden banners, suggesting that this mural depicts just one of many ideas that make up our collective vision. Ours happens to deal with the issue of transportation, and the City depicted in the rest of the mural is a traffic and pollution free one, where the community takes back the space which now fragments it: the street."
Gandara
January 2011
The mural extols the joys of bicycling, walking, skating etc, but it also alludes to the political and ecological implications of choosing to get around by non polluting, low budget means: Towards the west (right) end of the mural, a close up view of the ground, where plants and the footprints of animals mingle with a bike track, symbolizes the closer connection to, awareness of, and low impact on nature that such a choice brings.
At the east end of the wall (downtown), Market Street's bicycles are seen transforming into pedal-powered flying machines which rise out of the morass of pollution and gridlock. The scene alludes to the subversive nature of Critical Mass in particular, and generally symbolizes the freedom experienced by those with visions of alternatives to the status quo, represented in the mural by frowning corporate skyscrapers. Each of the flying contraptions trails its pilot's dream of utopia in the form of a golden banner. The whole rest of the mural, westwards from this scene, starts in the shape of one of these golden banners, suggesting that this mural depicts just one of many ideas that make up our collective vision. Ours happens to deal with the issue of transportation, and the City depicted in the rest of the mural is a traffic and pollution free one, where the community takes back the space which now fragments it: the street."
Gandara
January 2011
martedì 15 novembre 2011
Vancouver - Flash mob
Vancouver - Flash mob
imagine1day's Official Dancing in the Streets flashmob | Vancouver Canada 2010
Here is imagine1day's official take on the 3000+ amazing flashmob dance that took place on Robson Street, Vancouver, BC Canada during the hustle and bustle of first day of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games on February 13 at 4pm. Thousands of people participated and thousands more watched!
For more information on imagine1day and what this incredible organization is up to in communities around the world and in Ethiopia, join us on facebook, twitter, and visit
imagine1day.org
If you're having trouble playing this video, click here for the YouTube version: youtube.com/watch?v=FzVuLTPYtk4
Share your Dancing in the Street story! Whether you participated or watched the biggest flashmob that has ever happened in Canada on February 13th in Vancouver, we want to hear about it. We're putting together a larger project and we want YOU to be a part of it! Post a comment on our facebook fan page facebook.com/imagine1day
Jered Love
February 2010
lunedì 24 ottobre 2011
sabato 22 ottobre 2011
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