Posts tagged cities
From Polk (by Naz Hamid)
This is San Francisco!
The Flatiron Building in a photograph taken by Edward Steichen (1904).
Stumbled across this while digging up words for a Font Bureau “hidden gems” specimen. Guess the typeface I’m setting!
Earl Best and the Street Warriors, from the first episode of “Brick City”. Bless you, Caren for introducing me (through Letterboxd) to this series.
This scene, in particular, shook me. That awesome little kid, benefiting directly from persistent community outreach, with a confident smile on his face, puts his arm around an emotional Best. True friends.
Street Warriors Inc. was founded in 2003 by Earl “The Street Doctor” Best. Having witnessed hopelessness in many young people’s faces, wide-scale unemployment and the proliferation of drugs and gangs as a substitute for family, Best realized the streets in his Newark community needed healing. Rather than be consumed by the despair he saw in the streets, he joined forces with several other men, ex-offenders like him, who were doing community work.
Music by Khari Mateen.
2000 Birds Eye View Manhattan by Tadashi Ishihara (from Prof. Michael Stoll)
Central Park detail (and four U.S. presidents).
A new favorite artist: Svenolov Ehrén, 1928-2004. “Known for his many views of Stockholm, book-illustrations and postage-stamps.” Tack, David Larson, AL, and Martin Klasch!
Hallo England, 1950
By Eiding and Sondelius
Cover by Eva Löfberg
(via P-E Fronning)
City of Glass title sequence by Yaron Steinberg (via Noele Lusano)
always mind your target audience (by Nina Stoessinger)
As an aside, these Euro forbidden signs always confuse me. In North America anything not allowed has a slash through it or is written out with a “NO”. To me, this reads “dogs ok”.
How effective is your city’s public transit? Above are the estimated distances one can travel on bus, tram, or subway within 45 minutes from comparable residential neighborhoods* in LA, San Francisco, New York, and Berlin. Maximum walking time to/from stations and stops is set at 15 minutes, and estimates are for weekday travel. The data comes from the wonderful Mapnificent which includes many more cities and some other slick features I encourage you to try for yourself.
*Perhaps I’m being unfair to LA because I’m less familiar with it. If there’s a neighborhood other than Los Feliz that is more like the others in terms of relative rent, safety, livability, etc., please comment below. But, from my trials, the transit accessibility map is similarly disheartening anywhere in LA, unless you’re downtown.
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Love Letter, sponsored murals by Stephen Powers
Bill Cunningham New York
I don’t think I’ve ever been so inspired by a film. I want to be more like Bill.
“”This year we are making a studied conscious effort not to be studied or conscious. Santa Fe is now one of the most interesting art centers in the world and you, O Dude of the East, are privileged to behold the most sophisticated group in the country gamboling freely…
And Santa Fe, making you welcome, will enjoy itself hugely watching the Dude as he gazes. Be sure as you stroll along looking for the quaint and picturesque that you are supplying your share of those very qualities to Santa Fe, the City Incongruous… Be yourself, even if it includes synthetic cowboy clothes, motor goggles and a camera.
80 years later, the city’s attitude is still the same. See you next month, Santa Fe!
(by Richard Alexander Caraballo)
(via minusbaby)
Gazele Biznesu cover by Jan Feliks Kallwejt
Anyone attempting the trendy and tired “make an object silhouette out of hundreds of little objects” should take a lesson from Jan Kallwejt.
Tentacle Juniper
This is a “Hollywood” juniper (Juniperus chinensis ‘Kai-zuka’, a.k.a. J. chinensis ‘Torulosa’), common in East Bay yards and often an entertaining part of our neighborhood walks. Thanks to local floraphile Seán O’Hara for the identification.
