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A note on blog updates

Sunday, June 20, 2010

My goal has been to write something about graffiti every week, and update the blog accordingly. As you may have noticed, it’s just not happening. Instead of spurring me to action, that goal has just left me feeling guilty as I miss one week then another, and begin to resent the extent to which this [...]

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Crescat Graffiti: blocked in China?

Thursday, April 1, 2010

A random bit of miscellanea: based on Matthew Felix Sun’s recent experiments, it seems that this website is blocked in China. It’s no surprise that some of the images are censored in the Flickr sets– there’s a known issue [Wikipedia] with certain Flickr image servers– things on farm2.static.flickr.com and farm4.static.flickr.com seem to be available, but [...]

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Happy Valentine’s Day: the best of love at the Reg

Sunday, February 14, 2010

To celebrate Valentine’s Day, here’s a few favorite pieces of love-themed graffiti. (Click any image to see it larger).
One of my absolute favorite pieces, and one of the first graffiti pictures I took:

The less-romantic follow-up advice:

Subtle longing:

Love in the time of H1N1:
‘I get flu-like symptoms when Shawnty ain’t around’

A very special UofC kind of love

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Camilla Neppl Huber wins the RegRemix contest!

Friday, January 8, 2010

Camilla Neppl Huber is the winner of the official RegRemix contest, with her amazing stitching of “Go to Italy, be a cobbler”! (Note in particular the shoes that form part of the black lace-like pattern around the design.)
Okay, so there was only one contest entry (other than what I did to my own netbook), but [...]

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Crescat Graffiti: The Data Set

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Until recently, I’ve thought of Crescat Graffiti as an art/anthropology project, and it never occurred to me to treat it as a data set. But now that’s what I’m doing as part of putting together a guest post for a science magazine. I love a good data set, but in the process of making it [...]

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Chicago Weekly article

Friday, December 4, 2009

The latest issue of the “Chicago Weekly” has an article about Crescat Graffiti; I’d link to it, but it seems to be the one article that throws a 500 Internal Server Error, so I’ve copied it here.
The Writing on the Wall: Quinn Dombrowski documents the Regenstein Library’s graffiti
by Emilie Shumway, photo by Sam Bowman
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