Intersection Mural Version 3.0

A quick blog post to show off some photographs of last Saturday’s (March 12th 2011) intersection mural painting. This is the third time Eco-Village and our neighbors have painted this “intersection repair” mural. It’s inspired by the work of Portland’s City Repair. This weekend, we mostly freshened-up the mural painted in 2009 – covered here – while adding [...]

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Misty Night

I was walking back to my place just now (nearly 1am) and struck by the beauty of the misty night. It has just cleared up after a wonderful day and a half of rain, the first rain of the season here. An excellent rain – enough for a good soaking of the garden, but not [...]

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Intersection Repair Event 12 September 2009

We enjoyed another great talk by Mark Lakeman of Portland’s City Repair last Friday night, and on Saturday we were inspired by their example to paint a new intersection repair mural.  These photos are worth many thousands of words – thanks to Kathy Hill and Yuki Kidokoro for documenting the event!      There’s a lot [...]

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Intersection Repair Videos!

Portland City Repair’s Mark Lakeman will return to Eco-Village in two weeks. He’ll be speaking Friday September 11th at 7:30, then Saturday September 12th from 10am to 6pm he’ll be leading an intersection repair project here. For more event details, see this earlier post. Lakeman is an excellent speaker – whom I highly recommend. His [...]

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Intersection Repair Mural Designs

Jimmy, Josie, Lara, Doran, Melba, Angie (youth from Bresee) and I put our heads together and came up the rough scheme for the intersection repair mural that we’ll all be painting on Saturday September 12th. For more information about the event, as some photos of the previous intersection repair mural, see this earlier post. Here’s [...]

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Mural Painting Street Party September 12th

Portland City Repair‘s Mark Lakeman is returning to Los Angeles in September. He’ll be speaking at eco-village on Friday September 11th then will lead an all-day intersection repair project on Saturday September 12th from 10am to dusk. The first time I heard Lakeman speak it really changed my thinking about public space and ways that [...]

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