ode to vivian.

these photos are from negatives purchased at an auction house that acquired them from a storage locker sold off due to delinquent payments. the medium format negatives, over 40,000, were taken in the 1950s - 1970s by vivian maier, a street photographer in chicago.

the images were purchased by john maloof who is doing his best to catalog/archive the work of maier who recently passed away in obscurity. 10-15,000 of the negatives were still in rolls, undeveloped from the 1960's-1970's and there are still about 600 rolls yet to develop.

he googled her about a year after purchasing the negatives only to find her obituary placed the day before his search. she passed away only a couple of days before the inquiry on her.

amazing photographs. amazing story.

a love letter.

i've been feeling homesick for my hometown.

life archive.

you can now search the millions of photographs from the LIFE magazine photo archive through google images. it's pretty awesome.

Art-Street Ptg.-Philadelphia
Artist Gene Davis putting finishing touches on his 414-ft-long ptg. "Franklin's Footpath," painted on street in front of Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Location: Philadelphia, PA, US
Date taken: 1972

written on the walls.

and the classic...

{via pictures of walls}

happy birthday keith haring!

yesterday would have been keith haring's 50th birthday and in honor of his life and work the keith haring foundation, goldman properties and deitch projects unveiled a reproduction of his famous houston street and bowery mural in downtown nyc. painted in the summer of 1982, the original mural was up for only a few months during the summer before it was painted over. the mural is being repainted using the extensive photographic documentation of the original work and will remain up until the end of the year.

ingenius inflatables.

street artist joshua allen harris creates inflatable animals out of discarded plastic bags and then ties the bags to the ventilation grates above the subway lines so that when the subway passes through underneath, the rush of air causes the animal to spring to life!


so neat! {this story brought to you by the wooster collective}