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Weeeeee. Let’s ride!

schwamommy:

my bike is begging for antlers! well, and a boombox…

greatatlantabicycleparade:

SAVE THE DATE! Ride in the Great Atlanta Bicycle Parade on Sunday, May 20th! Atlanta is an exciting place to live right now. Our bicycle community is thriving and our art scene is booming! In Atlanta, you can ride your bicycle to an art show, a performance, or a festival every day of the year. This calls for a parade! Dust off your boom box! Our parade is going to rock! We are rolling with am 1690’s BICYCLE PARADE SHOW!!

(via themidtownarchive)

It's Finally Time You Knew Something →

My friend, Geoff makes incredibly informative, adorably illustrated, and devotedly devoted (to the ATL) infographics. 

Have a look see. Then share it! 

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you and me

“In his Word project, designer Jim LePage set out to create original designs for every book of the Bible, in an exercise in self-discipline that allowed him to mary his love of design with his desire to read the Bible more. Though the impetus for the project sets off my own religious alarms, the Bible, too, is literature, and it’s hard to dismiss the refreshing approach of this literary art project. Besides, perhaps this is the kind of secular silver lining Alain de Botton promised in Religion for Atheists.”

Atlanta Magazine+AIA Scavenger Hunt Downtown →

downtownatlanta:

Atlanta magazine teamed up with the Atlanta Chapter of the American Institute of Architects to present a new perspective on buildings in the heart of our city. After all, who better than architects to appreciate the details of an urban landscape we often take for granted? Founded in 1906, AIA Atlanta includes more than 1,600 architects and design professionals, some of whom submitted photos capturing the rich cityscape. See how many of the buildings you can name!  

 

If you can identify the 16 local landmarks (helpful hints are provided), you could win a free weekend on the town courtesy of Downtown’s historic Ellis Hotel, as well as passes to some of the city’s most engaging attractions.

I got a few. Others, I know where they are and what they look like, but don’t know they’re names. Try it!

(via themidtownarchive)

Bike Shelf 

Knife & Saw

(Source: theknifeandsaw.com)

atlurbanist:

Florence Italy vs. Atlanta’s I-75/I-285 Interchange

Look at Florence above… the blocks are tiny, and the streets are never much more than hairlines. From this high up in the sky, the intersections look like sharp right angles. This is because Florence was laid out for people and horses, which can turn on a dime. Cars drive on these streets today, but they drive slowly, which is far safer for the pedestrians.

The Atlanta interstates are each as wide as 2-3 blocks of Florence. The entire Duomo (the cathedral in the center of Florence that arguably began the Renaissance) could fit in one of the inner loops of the interchange, as you can clearly see. The central core of Florence, from the Duomo to the river, would fit inside the inner box of the interchange. The world was irreversibly changed by the people living and working in Florence who gave birth to the Renaissance. The interchange will never change the world… at best, it gets a small fraction of Atlanta workers to their jobs a bit sooner, barring any accidents.

— Excerpt from The Price of Speed on BetterCities.net

The one quibble I have is with this: “it gets a small fraction of Atlanta workers to their jobs.” I’ll wager it’s more than a small fraction (unsubstantiated hyperbole never helps your arguments, kids). But otherwise I think this a great illustration of the wasteful, car-centric land use we have in much of the Atlanta metro.

This interchange area was once beautiful wetlands and Chattahoochee River-side forest. Now it’s a place where the land area is suited mostly for car traffic and parking. It’s neither an efficient & beautiful built environment for humans nor a natural habitat for the native ecosystem. We’ve got too many acres in the metro that can be described that way and it needs to change for a more sustainable future.

[To be fair to Atlanta, though — all those terracotta roofs make Florence look a bit like a skin rash at this distance. Just sayin’.]

kennylipscomb:

[Via Helena]

Finally the second best show on television is back.

Woot

Excerpt from “The Broken Cord”:

A book about adopting and raising Adam, a boy with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.

“Yet, in loving Adam, we bow to fate. Few of his problems can be solved or ultimately changed. So instead, Michael and I concentrate on only what we can control—our own reactions. If we can muster grace, joy, happiness in helping him confront and conquer the difficulties life presents … Then we have received gifts. Adam
Has been deprived of giving so much else.”

Grace. Joy. Happiness.

This animated short is my favorite of the Oscar nominees. Such a beautiful little film about resilience (I feel a strong Hurricane Katrina reference given the geographic origin of it’s creation), perseverance, the importance of creative output and appreciation, and also the need to surround yourself with inspirational people, places, and things. To wrap it up “The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore” stresses the loveliness of a life lived fully and peacefully. There is always newness in endings. Circles and cycles. 

I love this film. 

“If life is enjoyed, does it have to make sense?” -Mr. Morris Lessmore

Gangsta Vintage Valentine’s

(Source: brainpickings.org)

Tiny pb&j. Big buildings. An Atlanta afternoon.

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Trees! Yay!

downtownatlanta:

The ongoing streetscape improvements along the historic Marietta Street artery.

Magazines and daddy issues.
I know you’re pretty pissed.
I hope you’ll still let me kiss you.

THS

Steinbeck On Love

“And don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.”