A collection of writings about place space writing and art …
Seeing the city as a work of art is a curious way to view a city, I found it an interesting exercise. This book represents quite a masterful look at London, Paris and Vienna, with a splendid raft of photographs, illustrations and quotations. To the greater or lesser extent that I know them, they are…
What’s more beautiful than block after block of glowing reds and blues and pinks and yellows, emanating light and heat? These food-oriented neon signs also make you hungry. The Old Homestead sign looks pretty old, though not as old as this steak house (two words!) itself, from 1868. The Donut Pub on 14th Street, a […]
via Gorgeous neon signs illuminating the city — Ephemeral New York
Designed and created by Josephine R. Unglaub.
via Happy Sleepwalk. — lemanshots – Fine Pictures and Digital Art
“Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them?” – Pablo Picasso, Spanish, painter, sculptor, printmaker, draftsman
via “Everyone wants to understand art. Why not…” — Art of Quotation
Not many sports can trace their origin as decisively as basketball: Fans know the first game was played on December 21, 1891 in Springfield, Massachusetts. But few Americans are aware that the oldest surviving basketball court is in Paris, inside an unassuming building at 14, rue Trévise in the 9th arrondissement. The entrance, in a […]
We rarely see them. Or rather, we see but fail to acknowledge. They inhabit a shadowland of the banal, the unremarkable, the unnoticed. Concealed in their own mundanity, they gently erase themselves from view. Yet in Christopher Herwig’s remarkable Soviet Bus Stops, these drab artefacts of lane and street are re-invented, as Jonathan Meades observes […]
A presentation of Admiralspalast – a theathre built in eclectic Art Nouveau / Jugendstil style
via Admiralspalast – Art Nouveau / Jugendstil — See in Berlin
Axis Maps has announced the release of their mapping/art project “Typographic Maps”. These unique maps use nothing but type to depict roads, highways, neighborhoods, parks and physical features of cities like Boston, San Francisco, Chicago and New York. They manually weave together thousands of names, words and titles to create a complete picture (and usable map) […]
Naked Cities Journal 