$28.33 for 28.33 Square Inches of Land in Detroit
Detroit. The aging industrial city has gotten too big for its residents and continues to face a crumbling infrastructure, a declining population and high unemployment.
via modeldmedia.
Jerry Pappendorf came up with this idea to sell space online to mirror in the real world. So when you buy an inch of land you invest in community projects and mini-grants like Georgia Street Garden, Detroit Lives! and Motor City Blight Busters.
$20.00 for One Ton of Ballast Stones
I heard this story on the radio this afternoon about a girl who ditched honors college and went to Kenya and started a nonprofit organization to affect change in one small town. The organization’s mission, in their own words:
“By paying for the schooling of the neediest students, SPBP can support them and cover the cost of books. By directing this new money to provide the infrastructure for the water system, we can also provide stability and basic infrastructure to the village, the local public school, and the surrounding area.”
Self portrait
lo, thistlebird!
All I really need to get by is some scrap metal and a hug.
My new Twitter background. Apologies for being such a weirdo.
I just discovered the work and life of Margaret Kilgallen. I like how she spoke about visual communication. She was captivated by “folk” art, did everything by hand, and perhaps most potently to me, snuck around train yards. In this vein, she did a series of hand-painted trainyard photos.
This clip from YouTube originally aired on the PBS show ART:21 | Place.
I was probably thinking of The Very Hungry Caterpillar when I made this.
