RedStick FreeUse

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RedStickFreeUse/?yguid=64413602

or redstickfree.org

Similar to Freecycle, this group allows you to post and search listings for free stuff. Interesting that there was a big takeoff in 2005 and it has since tapered off...

Portland vs. Europe

This reminded me of yesterdays discussion of questioning what exactly we are striving for when we attempt to build a functioning community.

Mapping the flight paths of birds...ideas for pedestrians or transport

I recently went to this exhibition at the Barbara Davis Gallery in Houston. He maps various things, picture to left is of the flight paths of birds. See below for more info:

Internationally known Italian artist Andrea Bianconi was born in Arzignano, Italy and works and lives in New York and Milan. This is the second one person show with Barbara Davis Gallery.

The exhibition on view will explore Bianconi's personal 'geography'. Using his inventive and symbolic imagery, that takes the viewer to an unexpected and imaginary place.

On view will be a central large wall installation using various materials made from leather, foam, fabric and other found objects.

The installation will be supported by a series of map collages that are densely layered with the same mythology providing a journey into Bianconi's mind.

Upcoming featured articles on Andrea Bianconi include Double Magazine (France), September/2008 issue and Nylon Magazine (New York), Winter/2008

I found a blog site that is dedicated to creative mapping and has some beautiful and some intriguing work. If anyone knows why Finland's roads are all in a petri dish please let me know.
http://creativemapping.blogspot.com/


oh, and this guy has some really sweet work...
http://www.joshdorman.net/
check out the video about his mapping Alzheimer's patient's lives - it is very short.

From his site:
Josh Dorman is currently working with the Memory Bridge Foundation in Chicago on a project involving the "mapping" of the internal geographies and memories of Alzheimers and Dementia patients.

Post Suburbia

A response to the article I posted last week. Radical, cynical, happening?

3D Photomontages

Photosynth is a pretty incredible tool for photomontages. It's not completely free of bugs but I was able to get it working on my mac though I had to download firefox to do it.

Theory of The Dérive

Guy Debord in 1958

What Will Save the Suburbs?

Allison Arieff's New York Times piece on what happens when we foreclose on the suburbs.