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Author Archives: Brian D. Butler
Parade Redux
Of course I missed the actual broadcast of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade last week (good excuse: I was cooking for 15), so I was amazed to find that former street artist and fellow Jersey boy KAWS had a balloon … Continue reading
Posted in Animation, Art, USA
Tagged Brian Donnelly, Jersey, KAWS, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
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Book Building
Eco-Artware, a retailer dedicated to “green” gifts, has posted a series of impressive projects created with recycled or discarded books. Some are prize-winning installations by artist Job Koelewijn, but the remainder are simply ingeneous efforts from bookstores and museums.
Art in the Metro
Many visitors to Amsterdam never ride the city’s limited Metro system; in fact many don’t even know that it exists. But the GVB’s clever campaign to refurbish the Zilbermeeuwen metro cars may encourage art-loving tourists to take a ride. When … Continue reading
Be Safe Around Trains
Most public transit safety advertising tends to be dull, unimaginative or even browbeating, so it was a treat to see the entertaining approach taken by Melbourne Metro in Australia. Animator Julian frost created this kooky little film called Dumb Ways … Continue reading
Posted in Animation, Tourism
Tagged Australia, Business, Melbourne Metro, Public transport
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Happy Thanksgiving Day
Like most every kid growing up in the United States, each Thanksgiving Day holiday morning I was glued to the television in anticipation of the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade broadcast from New York City. It’s been quite a while … Continue reading
Posted in Animation, Photography, Tourism, USA
Tagged Central Park West, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, New York City
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Biellmann or Flutz in Paris This Season
Built in 1900 for the Paris Universal exhibition, Le Grand Palais is one of the most extravagant buildings in a city of extraordinary architecture. Today, it houses the marvelous Galerie Nationale and the de la Decouverte science museum under its … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Europe, Museums, Tourism
Tagged Edward Hopper, Grand Palais, Paris
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Go The Extra Mile
The Extra Mile is a brilliant start-up charitable organization with a very straightforward mission: they collect frequent flyer miles from all those folks who never use them and then provide access to the miles to people who need to travel … Continue reading
Every Book Is A Surprise
The Monkey’s Paw is Toronto’s self-described “most idiosyncratic secondhand bookshop”. So it’s not surprising that owner Stephen Fowler commissioned the creation of the Biblio-mat random book dispenser. The automat for books arbitrarily metes out improbably diverse titles that would normally … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Bookstore Tourism, Canada, Tech
Tagged Monkey's Paw, Toronto, Used book
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No Trees, No Fjords
This summer, Irish painter Conor Harrington visited the doleful Norwegian port town of Vardø on the chilly Barents Sea and created some marvelous murals around the desolate town for the Komafest street art festival. Lucky for us, filmmaker Andrew Telling … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Europe, Film, Tourism
Tagged Conor Harrington, Komafest, Street Art, Vardø
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Serendipity Now
Launched last month, Wanderous is a diverting free travel navigation app that creates serendipitous urban routes that are optimized for adventurous journeys. Users just enter a destination into Wanderous and it will offer a convoluted route suggesting local sites, landmarks, … Continue reading
