Environmental Graffiti

The Rainbow Tunnel of Tel Aviv

A visit to Isreal may now include explicit stops at the open underground tunnels of Tel Aviv, where artists Bar & Shay have been hard at work installing colourful lights to the once dull underpasses. The new makeovers brighten up an otherwise unmemorable experience, and have already received acclaim as a great street intervention project.

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Crime and Corruption in the World’s Oldest Subway Tunnel

Once each month, a busy intersection in Brooklyn, New York, gets just a little bit busier. Traffic cones are set up, and cars are necessarily diverted to ensure the safety of an influx of tourists. In a single file outside the Independence Bank, the crowd's sights are fixed on the single, open manhole in the middle of the street, into which they'll crawl to hear the tale of crime surrounding the oldest subway tunnel in the world.

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Japanese Build Paper Plane For Outer Space

Japan’s space agency earmarked the equivalent of $900,000 U.S. Dollars this week to fund an experiment that would focus on flying paper airplanes in space for the next three years. I am not making this up. Image from dsgnctrl on Flickr The project, which is attempting to learn [...]

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