February 2011
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Science: People Really Do Take Longer Leaving a... →
Three studies showed that drivers leaving a public parking space are territorial even when such behavior is contrary to their goal of leaving.
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Researchers Study 'Sidewalk Rage' - WSJ.com →
At its most extreme, sidewalk rage can signal a psychiatric condition known as “intermittent explosive disorder,” researchers say. On Facebook, there’s a group called “I Secretly Want to Punch Slow Walking People in the Back of the Head” that boasts nearly 15,000 members.
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Chrysler Gets Extra Miles Out of Eminem Super Bowl... →
“One of things we’ve been working on for last couple of days is a dealer kit,” said Joe Staples, creative director for Wieden, of Portland, Ore., which created the Super Bowl spot. “How can we make dealers around America feel like Detroit embassies? How can we put this feeling about Detroit and its optimistic resurgence in dealerships? We’ll help them keep that...
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New Mardi Gras app will help monitor parades →
This year, smart phone owners will be able to sleep in. Even though they could be miles away from the parade, thanks to a new app with a built-in parade tracker, they’ll be in the know.
Absurd.
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The architecture of New Orleans' rebuilt public... →
To the chagrin of many forward-thinking architects, the new developments are costumed in a nostalgic style meant to blend them with neighborhoods that took decades to develop.
“The kind of difference that’s being produced now is quite false,” said Scott Bernhard, a professor at Tulane School of Architecture, of Harmony Oaks. “Everyone can see that the buildings are being...
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Eight Track Museum →
The world’s first Eight Track Museum is now open in the Deep Ellum arts district of Dallas. Register for our free Museum e-newsletter to be kept informed on all the details.
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WatchReal Estate (by Jonathan Weston)
” This animation sardonically shows what happens when real life infects the imagery of a glossy property advert. Exploiting the familiar style of architectural visualisation, the film tracks the advert’s increasingly reactionary responses to escalating urban events.”
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Is Nashville the Next Boomtown of the New South? →
Here is a city that was a sleepy state capital for many years while other southern towns such as Atlanta and Charlotte took off. Then it began heading on an upwards trajectory. It is not yet at such a high growth rate that it appears to be a completely different sort of place than the Midwest. It’s population growth is only 1.9% per year, for example, not much higher than Midwest growth champion...
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PSFK » When Should I Visit?: Antisocial Social... →
When Should I Visit? uses data gathered from Foursquare to find the least busy times to visit the museums, galleries and theaters of London. It also displays the quietest days along with a graph to judge the relative popularity of different days.
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Boston's 'Street Bump' App Tries To Automatically... →
An app called Street Bump will take advantage of smartphones’ GPS data and accelerometers to automatically report potholes to city authorities without the user having to raise a finger—if it actually works, that is.
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Detroit Needs A Statue of Robocop! by Imagination... →
Detroiter John Leonard started a Facebook group called Build a statue of RoboCop in Detroit and galvanized an effort to bring Robo to life. Now, teaming up with friends and doers from around the city, region, country, and world, we’re making use of newfangled internet fundraising tools and social networks to can bring this vision to reality.
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Moving the Museum Online →
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'Death by GPS' in desert →
“She turned down a wrong road,” Nattrass said in a recent interview. “She said she was following her GPS unit.”
Danger has long stalked those who venture into California’s desert in the heat of summer. But today, with more people pouring into the region, technology and tragedy are mixing in new and unexpected ways.
“It’s what I’m beginning to...
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Detroit mayor shoots down idea for Robocop statue →
When one Twitterer suggested Detroit follow Philadelphia by erecting a statue of its most famous movie star, Bing replied with this tweet: “There are not any plans to erect a statue to Robocop. Thank you for the suggestion.”
On the other hand, someone started a sort of Facebook campaign on behalf of the idea, here.
(Thx: Mike D.)
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The Splendor of Cities - NYTimes.com →
City politics is better than national politics because the problems are more tangible and the communication is more face to face.
This is a point Edward Glaeser fleshes out in his terrific new book, “Triumph of the City.” Glaeser points out that far from withering in the age of instant global information flows, cities have only become more important. That’s because humans communicate best when...
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Watts Towers in Los Angeles Struggles for... →
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Google Art Project Provides Access to Works and... →
The chance to look closely at paintings, especially, as made things, really to study the way artists construct an image on a flat surface, is amazing, and great practice for looking at actual works. And while the Internet makes so much in our world more immediate, it is still surprising to see what it can accomplish with the subtle physicality of painting.
From Roberta Smith’s largely...
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Mardi Gras Indians start copyrighting fancy... →
They want a slice of the profits when photographers snap photos that end up in books, posters and other commercial ventures.
Ashlye Keaton, adjunct law professor at Tulane University, is working with the Indians to help preserve intellectual rights to their costumes. Although costumes are not copyrightable, Keaton apparently has sidestepped that issue by defining them as art.
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Go Figure (Consumed column) →
As a genre of visual communication, the architectural rendering is underscrutinized. When we see one — in a business meeting, on a real estate sign, accompanying an article about a public-works project — we understandably focus on the merits of what’s depicted, not the depiction. Recently, however, I happened to spend a lot of time looking at such drawings, and found myself drawn to a recurring...
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The New Orleans Corner Store: Places: Design... →
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WhoData.org allows New Orleans residents to track... →
WhoData.org, launched by the University of New Orleans, is in its embryonic phase. So far, it has information about 10,000 properties in Central City, the Freret and Milan neighborhoods and Gentilly Terrace and Gardens, as well as about 900 properties elsewhere in Gentilly, Lakeview and the Lower 9th Ward.
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Jersey City Museum hurt by budget cuts, lackluster... →
When a hoped-for partnership with New Jersey City University failed, museum officials decided to close the doors. The museum will remain shuttered, with only an off-site exhibition at the Hudson County Courthouse in the works, officials said.
