Make Cincinnati Weird!

Construction photos of team Torro Rosso’s Red Bull Soapbox Derby car.  You might say their “bull-ish” on their chances of victory.
The race is tomorrow!

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[ October 4, 2008; 1:00 pm; ] On October 4, Red Bull Soapbox Race will come screeching into Cincinnati’s Mount Adams area as 40 teams put their skills to the test driving homemade human-powered soapbox cars down the urban 1/4-mile “track”. They’ll be challenged with steep descents, turns, and ultimately, the clock as they strive for soapbox stardom and a place at [...]

Well, if you were like me, you didn’t make it out of the office at all during Cincinnati PARK[ing] Day 2008. I heard that all of the PARK[ing] spots were north of Central, with only one exception – at 5th and Walnut – right smack in the middle of the CBD!
This PARK[ing] spot lasted [...]

[ September 19, 2008; ] I have heard about PARK[ing] Day in other cities somewhere before.  So imagine my delight when I came across Cincinnati PARK[ing] Day scheduled for next month (I’m always the last to know)!

From the Cincinnati PARK[ing] Day blog:
“Cincinnati PARK[ing] Day” call for entries (Posted: Aug. 6, 2008) — Cincinnati PARK[ing] Day announces a call to citizens [...]

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 [...]