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pTravel a few blocks in any direction from Core77’s offices in Manhattan, look up, and you’ll see enormous billboards–without the billboards. The space-tight streets of New York have a lot of advertisements painted on the sides of buildings, from movie posters to alcohol ads, and last week I finally saw how they get them up there./p

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pI watched as two guys from A HREF=”http://colossalmedia.com/” Colossal Media/A hoisted a painter’s scaffold loaded with buckets and brushes up the side of a building, and after they came down at the end of the day, I approached them for a business card and asked if we could shoot a video of them working it. Turns out someone’s beaten us to it; be sure to check out their fascinating process captured in the “A HREF=”http://uptherefilm.com/film.aspx” Up There/A” documentary, below:/p

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A full ten months after the commission was officially handed out to David Woodhouse to design a memorial here in Chicago to honor the legendary architect and urban planner Daniel Burnham and the city has finally given it the go ahead. While privately funded and located in an area that seems like the perfect spot to celebrate the man who laid out the “Plan for Chicago” (near the Field Museum on the south side of downtown), objections about the $5 million expense and its location kept the memorial’s construction on hiatus this past half year. Now that they finally have the thumbs up, the Tribune reports that construction will begin next year and should be finished by 2012.

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Heading out on a summer vacation? Check out these wonderful packing tips from flight attendants in The New York Times’ “Packing Tips from Travel Pros.”

Now that nearly every airline is charging baggage fees, travelers are motivated to pack as efficiently as possible. And who knows more about packing than professional flight crews? In interviews with a dozen flight attendants and pilots, one theme emerged: to pare down and still have everything needed at the destination, think strategically.

Heather Poole, a flight attendant interviewed for the article, can fit more than 40 pieces of clothes and two pairs of shoes into her carry-on bag. She primarily rolls her clothing, but also “wraps” her nice clothes around her rolled casual items (which, are mostly 50-50 cotton-polyester).

Also, don’t miss the 12 image slide show that accompanies the article with step-by-step photographs showing how Heather Poole fits it all in her bag. It shows how-to instructions for even packing clothes you don’t want wrinkled.

Uno dei miei illustratori preferiti, James Jarvis, la mente dietro Amos, ha disegnato questa collezione di tees per Stussy. All’interno del post, trovate il video dell’intervista.
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If you had to guess what environmental activism group would be most interested/involved in the Gulf oil spill, you’d likely pick Greenpeace, and you’d be absolutely right (sorry, we’re not offering any prizes at this time). While they help in the clean up process, they’re rallying against the oil company responsible for the mess, British Petroleum, in a number of ways. Most relevant to our interests is their launching a contest to redesign BP’s logo. They’ve already made their own, changing the company’s “Beyond Petroleum” tag to “British Polluters,” with oil stains on their familiar starburst logo, which they snuck in and hung near the company’s offices in London (see the video below). Now they’re asking for an official rebranding, which they hope to receive from this contest. The winner’s new logo will be used for all of Greenpeace’s future efforts in fighting BP. All the entries they’ve received thus far are here.

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