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Slate asked their readers to send in their hand-drawn maps of… whatever. Seriously, whatever. They later posted a few of the submissions, and among them was this gem, a “guide to the neighborhoods of Paris, put in terms a young New Yorker can understand. Although the map is simplistic and juvenile, the effort to match Parisian arrondissements with demographically corresponding areas in Brooklyn is a conceptually interesting way to present information about an unfamiliar town.”
Discovered via Boing Boing.

Slate asked their readers to send in their hand-drawn maps of… whatever. Seriously, whatever. They later posted a few of the submissions, and among them was this gem, a “guide to the neighborhoods of Paris, put in terms a young New Yorker can understand. Although the map is simplistic and juvenile, the effort to match Parisian arrondissements with demographically corresponding areas in Brooklyn is a conceptually interesting way to present information about an unfamiliar town.”

Discovered via Boing Boing.


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By mobstr in the U.K., via rebel:art.


Retrieve mail at your own risk!
Via Urban Prankster

Retrieve mail at your own risk!

Via Urban Prankster


Glowing shoes in Richmond, Virginia, strung over tree branches as you’d normally see them over power lines.

Via Wooster Collective


Anger Release Machine by Katja Kublitz and Ronnie Yarisal, via Urban Prankster.



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Another of El Mac’s spray paint murals, via killingbambi: 

Widelec.org
è una vita che ci passo davanti e finalmente ho capito di chi è

Previously

Another of El Mac’s spray paint murals, via killingbambi:

Widelec.org

è una vita che ci passo davanti e finalmente ho capito di chi è

Previously


Graffiti in West Oakland, via Notes.
Courtesy of

Graffiti in West Oakland, via Notes.

Courtesy of


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Via delacroix:

the walls are the publishers of the poor (via rot ist die farbe der hoffnung)

Via delacroix:

the walls are the publishers of the poor (via rot ist die farbe der hoffnung)


By Antoine Lejolivet & Paul Souviron of encastrable in Hamburg; via rebel:art.

By Antoine Lejolivet & Paul Souviron of encastrable in Hamburg; via rebel:art.


Via rebel:art. Maybe they’d go with this necklace?

Via rebel:art. Maybe they’d go with this necklace?