Monthly Archives: March 2011

Mapping Gangs and Cupcakes

By Nicola | Published: March 9, 2011

This map, created by UC Berkeley undergrad Danya Al-Saleh, overlays bakeries in The Mission district of San Francisco with Norteño and Sureño gang territory (for a larger PDF version, click here).

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Land, Language, and Wine Labels: An Interview with William L. Fox

By Nicola | Published: March 4, 2011

William L. Fox (Bill) is a writer and the Director of the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art. His ongoing interest, whether writing about Antarctica, the Great Basin, or Los Angeles, is in the ways in which people make sense of landscape. To that end, he has accompanied NASA astronauts […]

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The Mutato Archive

By Nicola | Published: March 1, 2011

IMAGE: Mutatoes by Uli Westphal. Since 2006, artist Uli Westphal has been collecting, documenting, and eating Berlin’s Mutatoes—the non-standard fruits, roots, and vegetables that can be found at the city’s farmers’ markets. His photographs form an archive of “these last survivors of agricultural diversity,” revealing an incredible variety of colours, curves, and contours. IMAGE: Mutatoes […]

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