Q: Why didn’t the giraffe get invited to the party?
A: Because he was a pain in the neck!
Ha! Anyway, Queen City Survey noticed a clever marketing campaign downtown, promoting the return of giraffes to the Cincinnati Zoo. I love it.
via Queen City Survey.
[ June 22, 2008; 2:00 pm; ] Only someone completely distrustful of all government would be opposed to what we are doing with surveillance cameras.
– NYC Police Commissioner Howard Safir, 27 July 1999.
From the homepage of the Surveillance Camera Players: Completely Distrustful Of All Government.
On Sunday, April 27, 2008, Bill Brown from the Surveillance Camera Players conducted a walking tour of surveillance [...]
Visualingual remarks:
One of my favorite Over-the-Rhine anomalies — the 20 cent payphone! There are several of these north of Liberty St. [this one is on Elm]. There’s probably a mundane explanation, but all I can think is, when was this installed? I remember payphones costing a quarter back in the mid-80s. Now, if you can [...]
Someone is planting bizarre messages on tiles embedded in the road surface. What the tiles are made of, who is placing them and how they get away with it — all of these questions remain unanswered. What is known is this: We are not alone. The mysterious tiles have been spotted in roads throughout the [...]
If you’ve driven around Over The Rhine lately (and if you haven’t, you should be!), you may have noticed a few fluttering arrows strung up from overhanging wires. We spotted four of them, broadcasting their double-sided messages to the traffic below on McMicken, Race, Main, and Liberty Streets.
Who hung these signs up? What do they [...]
