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• VisuaLingual Seed Bombs for MudBuddy

  
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  Lightborne is a design studio, production company and editorial house right in our neighborhood of Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati that just released the storybook iPad app MudBuddy , and we produced a line of seed bombs to accompany the launch. For once, we didn’t design the packaging or graphics, as MudBuddy is the ...
  5 days ago

• May You Live in Interesting Times: Does the CityHome Represent the Architecture of Cheap Money?

  
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  One of the largely-unheralded casualties of the most recent property bubble in both the United Kingdom and the United States is a group whose relative lack of access to the corridors of power often sees it ignored by policymakers: young adults. With prices for housing – whether rented or purchased – long in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Training Prosecutors: It WAS Entertaining

  
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  No, I didn’t get paid to trot downtown and spend 2/3 of a day in a mock jury trial orchestrated to train budding county prosecutors. Did it because an old friend, recent law-school graduate, worker at a grant-funded county project importuned. All volunteer…it was worth it. What a hoot! So here was the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Elsewhere

  
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  Cincinnati’s Radioactive Subway Tunnels : okay, they’re not radioactive, but do check them out. Heidelberg Project House Burns, Arson Suspected in Fire of Detroit Art Installation of Tyree Guyton : tragic news about the Heidelberg Project in Detroit. Fire at the Heidelberg Project Is a Snapshot of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Down Town Santa Ana

  
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    A while back I met my new friend Teri Bickley to talk about the redesign of this site. We decided to meet up in my favorite coffee shop in Downtown Santa Ana’s Historic District , except I hadn’t ever actually been to that coffee shop in Santa Ana. I go to the one in Costa Mesa all the time. I guess I’d ...
  2 weeks ago

• Open Walls Baltimore

  
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  Located in the Station North neighborhood of Baltimore, Open Walls Baltimore is a collection of about two dozen public murals by street artists from around the world, curated by Gaia . This first one is a favorite of mine from the varied bunch, but I can’t find any information about it. It’s in the ...
  2 weeks ago

• New Street Photography Samples – May 2013

  
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  Keep an eye on www.M43Street.com for daily updates to my street photography. Here are some early samples that will be filtering through the blog soon. Click through for more… Tweet Sharing is Cool #call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}
  2 weeks ago

• Urban Indoor Houseplant Design Book and a Tool Give-Away Contest

  
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  When Kylee Baumle and Jenny Peterson asked me to be part of the Indoor Plant Décor Virtual Blog Tour and contest give-away I was SO excited. Kylee and Jenny are long time garden writer friends who also happen to have two of the kick-assiest garden blogs in existence: Kylee’s awesome garden life blog – Our ...
  2 weeks ago

• Elsewhere

  
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  New Bookstore to Open in Downtown Cincinnati : exciting news. Stepping Up to Restore Cincinnati’s Neglected Pedestrian Stairways : great write-up on Spring in Our Steps . Best of Eco Chic Design : our Backyard Habitat Seed Bomb Kit gets some love from The Barn Light . Synergicity: Reinventing the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Casino Theater by Zettel & Rapp

  
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  The old Casino [later Regal] Theater is located at 1201 Linn St. in Cincinnati’s West End neighborhood. It was designed by Zettel & Rapp and opened in 1913. According to this resource , George W. and Walter L. Rapp [I think they were a father and son team] were part of “an important Cincinnati architectural ...
  3 weeks ago

• Baker Brush Co. Inc. Ghost Sign in NYC

  
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  Actually, my favorite part of the Baker Brush Co. Inc. ghost sign is the word “receivin.” Spotted this one on Greene St. in SoHo between Canal and Grand Sts.
  3 weeks ago

• Nifty fifty- not for me

  
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  A lot of seasoned photographers advise starting from getting 50 mm, fast prime lens and learn shooting with it. Why? A lot of arguments can be made. It constrains a bit what images you can take, it teaches zooming with your feet, lets you play with really shallow depth of field, and probably has many other educational ...
  3 weeks ago

• Noted without Comment

  
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  Horseshoe? RIP OTR? Gamblers Anonymous meeting or punk rock show? I spotted this on Telford St. in the Clifton Gaslight neighborhood of Cincinnati.
  3 weeks ago

• Why I Don’t Need a Gun

  
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  …Because everybody else and his little brother has a gun. Yesterday I got up to the mountain park a bit  late — around 11 a.m., after meetings and a trip to My Sister’s Attic to consign a set of old Noritake china . The day was warm, and so barely a soul was to be seen on the trails across the flat valley ...
  4 weeks ago

• Elsewhere

  
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  Planning, Politics, and Building a City : coming up this Wednesday, a free lecture at the Mercantile Library on the career of city planner [and Kevin Bacons father] Edmund Bacon. 6980 Knoll Rd, Cincinnati, OH 45237 : a frank Lloyd Wright house is on the market. American Sign Museum : 5chw4r7z checks out ...
  4 weeks ago

• Nashville Main Post Office by Marr & Holman

  
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  Located at 919 Broadway, the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville began its life as the Main Post Office, designed in the Art Deco style by Marr & Holman and constructed in 1933-34. The flashy interior features cast aluminum doors and grillwork, as well as colored marble and stone on the floors and ...
  4 weeks ago

• Rejecting the “Leftover Women” Label

  
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  As the marriage market in China grows more competitive due to a surplus of men, some Chinese single ladies are starting to challenge the label of “leftover women” , a term used to describe unmarried women in their late twenties. From Didi Kirsten Tatlow at the New York Times: “It’s really annoying,” ...
  4 weeks ago

• Noah’s Whiskey Beer Ghost Sign in Cincinnati

  
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  The ghost sign for Noah’s Whiskey Beer [or Pepsi Whiskey Beer Noahs, as it were] is on the corner of Spring Grove Ave. and Ledlie St. in a light-manufacturing no-man’s-land in Cincinnati.
  4 weeks ago

• Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City – Life Swirls

  
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  [IMG: http://creativespark.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/hcm1_creativespark.jpg?w=840&h=559]
  4 weeks ago

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