Subway Yearbook Photographs

Posted by Miss Cellania in Pictures on September 23, 2009 at 12:24 am

Improv Everywhere set up a portrait studio aboard a subway train and persuaded riders to have their pictures taken for the “subway yearbook”. Read the story behind this mission and see more pictures and a video at their website. Link -via Buzzfeed

 
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Metrocard Recycling Projects

Posted by Miss Cellania in Arts & Crafts on June 29, 2009 at 11:53 am


Taking public transportation is good for the environment, but used-up Metrocards aren’t -unless you find something useful to do with them. The Infrastructurist found nine wacky things people have made out of the cards, including this lovely suit. Link -via Everlasting Blort

 
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The Subway Dogs of Moscow

Posted by Alex in Animal, Travel & Places on May 18, 2009 at 2:36 am

Life in Moscow has certainly changed since Soviet Times, but apparently stray dogs have adapted well: they ride the subway just like ordinary people!

Foraging dogs have long been part of Moscow’s landscape, but they stayed mostly in the city’s industrial zones and lived a semiferal existence. They mainly relied on discarded food, rather than handouts, so they kept their distance from humans.

With old factories being transformed into shopping centers and apartments, strays have become more skillful beggars. [...]

… many Muscovites appear to enjoy, or at least tolerate, the dog population. Most of the dogs go out of their way to avoid antagonizing people. Even pooping in the metro is rare, researchers say.

Link [with an embedded Video Clip of a stray dog riding the subway!] | Wall Street Journal article about the cushy life of Moscow’s subway dogs – via Rue The Day

 
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Subway Art Gallery Opening

Posted by Miss Cellania in Arts & Crafts, Video Clips on March 19, 2009 at 8:12 am


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The folks from Improv Everywhere staged an art gallery opening on the 23rd Street subway platform in Manhattan. They had all the trappings: an open bar (serving cider), a coat check attendant, a cello player for ambiance, and nicely-dressed art patrons. The “art” displayed was the signs, graffiti, and objects already found in the subway! For example, this description was attached to a wall phone:


Telephone Line (2002)
Metropolitan Transit Authority in collaboration with Telecom

This homage to the urgency of communication is meant to highlight the recent necessity, from instant to instant, to maintain the potential for instantaneous, world-wide contact from any location, at any time. That a conversation from such a location would be abruptly interrupted by an arriving train suggests the artist’s intent to lampoon the perceived dependence on telecommunication.

Commuters passing by didn’t know what to make of the performance, but some ended up really enjoying themselves at the gallery opening! Link -via Metafilter

 
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The Forgotten Subway

Posted by Miss Cellania in Architecture, Travel & Places on February 4, 2009 at 1:28 am

The tunnel under Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn was New York’s first subway tunnel. It was built in 1844, then abandoned in the late 1850s. For over a hundred years, the tunnel seemed to be only a rumor, until an teenage urban Indiana Jones named Bob Diamond decided to unearth the tunnel once and for all. Link

 
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Your Very Own Art Studio in a Subway Car

Posted by Queuebot in Architecture, Arts & Crafts, Car & Vehicle, Everything Else, Home & Garden on February 3, 2009 at 6:09 pm

London artists now have a solution to the dilemma of renting expensive studio space to work in. Furniture designer Auro Foxcraft purchased four old Underground subway cars for 200 pounds each and mounted them to a rooftop, creating some unique, affordable office space.

Located atop a warehouse in Shoreditch, London, Village Underground as it’s called, only costs artists 15 pounds a week. And while the roof is a work area for artists the warehouse below is used to exhibit their work.

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ImprovEverywhere: 1200 pantless NYC subway riders

Posted by Adam Stanhope in Travel & Places, Video Clips on January 17, 2009 at 3:55 pm


Those wacky pranksters at ImprovEverywhere held their 8th annual “No Pants” subway ride last week with this year’s event allegedly drawing 1200 participants! It looks like most pranksters chose boxers over briefs – and who can blame them?

You can check out previous years’ pantless rides and other great pranks on ImprovEverywhere’s YouTube channel.

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Metro Art

Posted by Miss Cellania in Arts & Crafts on December 17, 2008 at 12:17 am


The subway entrances in Toulouse, France are adorned with modern pixel art! Each station is different. I particularly like this Tetris station entrance. See more at Fubiz. Link -Thanks, Matt!

 
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