Showing posts with label philadelphia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label philadelphia. Show all posts

Tuesday, 3 March 2009

Murders


I went to an English seminar not so long ago and the topic was about the murders in Philadelphia. Talking of statistics this map dots all the places where murders have occured. If you click on the website and click the red dots it reads more statistics, time, date, weapon etc. Most of the dots reads.. Firearms!! In Philli, nicknamed "KILLADELPHIA" there were 406 murders in 2007! I might compare this to york. Im guessing york may have less than 10 a year? Lets find out!

Sunday, 22 February 2009

isaiah zagar


i know i've talked about this guy before, but i just love his work so much. he does these murals all over philadelphia, but this is his magic garden (1020 south st, philadelphia) (i think made round 1995) thats kind of like his centre piece. i love this kind of art, that has such a positive influence on its environment, using mostly just junk as materials. and actually doing something, making something. i want to make things. like martin creed :] only probably not actually like his work.