Walk-by Theatre: Bike Safety, the Psychology of Selling, and Leadership in the 1940s

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Last night we hosted our first Walk-by Theatre screening. Featuring films pulled from the Prelinger archives, Danielle and I curated a program that touched on the aesthetics, values, and practices of 1940s/50s/60s American culture. The built-in benches on Pelissier along with some chairs from our collection were perfect seating for the hour-long program. A number [...]

MIT’s Place Pulse

Place Pulse, a sort of rating system for locations within a city, enables pedestrians to form a database of their opinions and findings. More importantly, this project allows participants to share information with those who might have a part in future urban development. Five cities are currently available to rate through Place Pulse: Vienna, Linz, [...]

Paris Street View

We’ve posted about the emerging Google Street View found photography sub-genre before. Michael Wolf is another artist using found GSV images to capture the absurd, banal, and occasionally poetic existence of modern street life. When compared with candid photography, Google Street View images present an infinitely larger database of frozen moments which were never intended [...]

Roadsworth: Painting the City

Life Support System by Roadsworth Reading about a show up at Atelier Punkt, featuring work by Roadsworth, I was interested in the gestures that transform an infrastructure that doesn’t always get the attention it deserves. Working with road paint, the street artist, Roadsworth, plays with the existing roadway communication to transform straight lines into heartbeats, [...]

Drive-Thru Symphony + Border Bookmobile + Laboratory Ecologies

TODAY in Windsor, there’s an incredible amount of activity happening. The Green Corridor will host a talk / workshop from Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council grant officers, two artist performances, and one huge outdoor event to bring culture to the NAFTA freeway. Lee Rodney will launch her Border Bookmobile—a Windsor-made 1993 Plymouth Voyager stocked [...]

Google Street View’s Street Photography

“A street view image can give us a sense of what it feels like to have everything recorded, but no particular significance accorded to anything.” In a guest post over at Art Fag City, Jon Rafman presents an excellent image essay on Google’s Street View feature and the many amazingly curious images its roving cars [...]

PreFab Parks for Park(ing) Day

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBNUQsEUKlU&feature=player_embedded Every year in New York, parking spots are taken over by people wanting to transform urban space into something more useable than concrete boxed in by painted lines under the banner of, Park(ing) Day. The even was originally imaged by San Fransisco’s Rebar, an interdisciplinary studio operating at the intersection of art, design and activism. The [...]

Google Street View is Coming to Windsor

Google’s Street View service is making the rounds across Canada. There’s no schedule that I’ve been able to find yet, but they are coming to Windsor. Anyone have any ideas about when Google is coming to town? And maybe as a follow up, anyone have any ideas? There’s already a short history of artists working [...]

GOOD’s Livable Streets

GOOD recently had a Livable Streets competition where they invited readers to do some rendering and Photoshopping of holistic redesigns. The winner, Steve Price, reimagined Portsmouth, Virginia with infill development, light rail, and dedicated bike paths. We need to do this for Windsor. Anyone up for putting their skills to use? Maybe Scaledown should try to [...]

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