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Martin Kohler’s “Big Urban Walk” videos provide a productive & reflective form of viewing our cities. I personally just “walked” through the city of Detroit. http://vimeo.com/user5107785/videos
Just noticed a seemingly more than coincidental reference to the first ever photo with a person in it (above: 1838 Paris) watching the movie Hugo. Both the 1838 photo and the Hugo screenshot are both in Paris, have a similar perspective and the location of the people in each shot is eerily reminiscent of each other. Pretty cool.
Beautiful from this view, but our attention to scale from street level activity is becoming less and less regarding these types of programs (museum and cultural centers). I don’t know, maybe this is what we want in our museums?
Urban issues
Some thoughts lately regarding the potential for our cities…
*Ways to create more porous urban filtration- inhabitants can become less claustrophobic when currently “abandoned” areas of the city become useable space?
*Housing can be integrated with its surroundings and neighbors in more creative ways- these attempts can be at social and ecological levels
*Food can create new connections- how food is attained and how it is produced can be sorted out within an urban context. Food then has more meaning, and so does the place it comes from.
Staycation Day #3 - ‘Heathers’ movie drinking game! They don’t make movies like this anymore. (via Heathers Movie Drinking Game)
I would like to think someone actually painted these #maps but in the meantime, they are worth looking at - via here
…and first photo with a person in it…1838 Paris. Apparently a 10 second exposure time…man in bottom left portion getting shoes shined. link
