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user-inactivated  ·  4095 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: You Can Open Minds With Public Art! Yes, YOU! I mean YOU!

This is beautiful. Seriously, beautiful. Public art is one of the most underappreciated possibilities of urban (or semi-urban) life.

In my hometown of Austin, murals, drawn poems, memorials, even often-pretty gang graffiti ... all are part of the public consciousness, the persona of my amazing city. But your little board is interactive and that makes it all the cooler. A much more real way of influencing your community.





littlebirdie  ·  4095 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I have to say that it feels funny telling the story! I kept it a secret, which made it all the more cool and fun and beautiful. I saw old ladies making poetry! Kids! Mothers with babies in strollers. I saw an old, decaying alcoholic struggle to put words together. It was all incredible.

user-inactivated  ·  4095 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Have you considered writing a book? About anything? I've only seen two of your posts, I think, but both were among my favorite from this site.

Would badge if I could.

littlebirdie  ·  4095 days ago  ·  link  ·  

http://www.amazon.com/My-Tiny-Vegas-Stories-ebook/dp/B002UKO...

:)

It's just a small and tiny book, a collection of stories about Northeastern New Mexico.

user-inactivated  ·  4095 days ago  ·  link  ·  

No, no, this is exactly what I was imagining. Awesome.

littlebirdie  ·  4095 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think 35 copies have sold since it was published a few years ago, ha ha. Not exactly best-seller material! It's all real-life stories about living in rural NM - all of the glorious food, Spanish and NA culture, the weirdness, the beauty, the ongoing drought.

user-inactivated  ·  4094 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It looked to me from the Amazon link that I could only buy an ecopy? I considered buying it last night, haha.

littlebirdie  ·  4094 days ago  ·  link  ·  

There's a paperback as well. I'm sending you a little note over the PM thingie, I have an extra copy and would love to send it to you! Signed! With a personalized poem and Hubski-centric message inside the cover!