Muralist Mia Massimino
Recently, I learned an artist was painting a mural blocks away from my house in Takoma Park, MD. I tracked down the artist, Takoma Park resident and recent Blair High …
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Hand-Drawn Sea Blob in your Mailbox
Give me a Facebook “like,” and I will send you a postcard with a personalized, hand-drawn sea blob. Send your snail mail address to tbc(at)stanfordalumni(dot)org. Do it. It’ll be amazing.
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Art on Call
Washington, DC is filled with the remnants of remnants of if emergency call boxes from a time before modern communications and the 911 system. You can see these metal skeletons and intersections …
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Front Yard Library
I noticed this in Takoma, DC while driving home a few days ago and took a phone pic. You can even see me in the reflection of the glass. Very …
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Kinetic Sculpture Race
Below are photos from Baltimore’s Kinetic Sculpture Race, a celebration of weird, home-made, man-powered vehicles sponsored by The Visionary Arts Museum. All of these contraptions had to locomote through mud, water, and the streets …
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Mansbach’s “Rage is Back”
I recently finished reading Adam Mansbach’s Rage is Back, a novel steeped in the history of New York City Graffiti. The main character, Kilroy Dondi Vance, is the son of …
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BORF Returns
Below is an old stencil from the once prolific DC street artist BORF. I took this picture on the way home from the grocery store the other day. BORF is …
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A capella Zoo’s Beastiary
I’m thrilled that my short story The Life Story of a Chilean Sea Blob is part of Beastiary: The Best of the Inaugural Decade of A capella Zoo. …
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Yarn Bombing in Takoma Park, MD
I learned about the phenomena of yarn bombing after someone knitted a sweater onto a tree outside my local library. More research led me to images of fabulous examples of …
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Graffiti Church
Graffiti artist Hense painted this church in Southwest, Washington, DC. You can read more about the project by clicking here. It’s part of a grand plan to bring a new museum …
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