We love the idea of secret messages and stories that are out in the open. In Boston when it rains and your eyes are looking down you might find poetry under your feet as a result of a new project called Raining Poetry. A collaboration of Boston City Hall and Mass Poetry the project uses Rainworks or something like it to make the stenciled poems come to life. The project doesn't … [Read more...]
Exploring NYC’s Flower District With Susan Orlean
New York used to have many more business specific districts. You can still buy fabric on 38th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues but many of them are gone or diminished as new development takes their place. There were several button stores on Broadway near Prince where you could go the length of a block looking through small boxes filled with every kind of button … [Read more...]
Jane Jacobs at 100
Google celebrated Jane Jacob's birthday with this doodle. … [Read more...]