Category: Art
Explore Brush of Seattle’s Public Street Art
Explore public street art at Brush
Portland Wild Featured in Willamette Week’s “Best of Portland”
PortlandWild, my google maps mash up of the city’s extensive network of beautiful murals, special “Heritage Trees” and Little Free Libraries made it into Willamette Week’s Best of Portland 2019 as a Best of Internet! Portland streets are filled with...
Librarian Builds Little Free Library Inside a Tree Stump
When I launched Portland Wild last fall as a map driven guide to Portland’s urban wilderness, a number of people asked me why I included public street art, the city’s heritage trees and Little Free Libraries. I don’t think I’d...
You Can, In Portland Hunt for Street Art Murals
I do like this advertising campaign by the W+K agency, “You Can, In Portland.” It’s super cute and very much like the city, just needed some white people and homeless people* in the background to make it real. And, I...
Emma, Forever Ago on Soundbreaking
“Emma, Forever ago” holds a few of my favorite tracks. I like this short clip of Justin Vernon interviewed on the the late Beatles’ producer George Martin’s Soundbreaker. It highlights his use of the Mac’s ProTools to build an environment for him...
Girls Riding Wolf Underwater Dreamscape – Portland Murals
Since I began collecting photos of Portland’s street art for PortlandWild, I’ve found a large number of beautiful murals I didn’t know existed. However, one from my neighborhood remains a favorite. It appears to show two young girls, riding a...
Google Protecting Privacy of Inhabitants of Street Murals
In development of Portland Wild, I discovered Google blurring the faces depicted in public art murals.