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Parking Lot Put Put

Day 2 of the Putting Lot construction

For New Yorkers (and Windsorites—unless there is a mini golf course I am unaware of that isn’t on the outskirts, punctuated with a pink elephant) who don’t usually get to experience the glory that is miniature golf, this project provides them (and potentially us) with the oppurtunity.

In Bushwick Brooklyn artists are taking over empty parking lots and transforming them into 9 hole mini golf games, each hole designed by a different artist.

The Putting Lot seeks to transform vacant space into community spaces. The group’s intention is to inspire imagination and provoke conversations about community sustainability.

This project makes me think of the median astroturf along Dougall and how BCL et al. can “redistrubute” the turf to make a Windsor version of the putting lot.

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Be Happy: Other Uses for Astroturf

Be Happy

Given the recent conversations around the installation of astroturf on the Dougall gateway, I had to post this. Made by Alina and Jeff Bliumis, Be Happy uses astroturf to illustrate a photograph of one of many interviews in which the artists asked people shopping in a Russian bookstore to share their American Dream.

[via WMMNA & ::: Alina and Jeff Bliumis ::: ]

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  • Luciana: Justin, that would would be great!!! On the same subject, I always thought the Peace Project from Detroit could be an...
  • Justin Langlois: I agree with you, Luciana … it doesn’t have to be a bad thing at all, I suppose I was thinking about the...
  • Luciana: It doesn’t have to be a bad thing though :) It reminded me of Haas&Hahn and their Favela painting project from 2006...
  • Cristina Naccarato: Such an epic post, Justin! The map turned out very nicely!
  • darren: It’s was back when the star was still printing the paper down there. I miss those days. Was metal letters. I don’t...
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