how many bubbles? Friday the 13th. Fellini’s #9
2012/04/19
2012/04/18
Rivanna
The Charlottesville and Albemarle Planning Commissions had a joint work session yesterday. As is my custom, I begged them to pay attention to our river.
Their custom regarding the river is not to see it.
2012/04/17
2012/04/16
2012/04/15
LRTP
The Cville Bike mApp project is a regional bike mapping project developed by the Charlottesville-Albemarle Metropolitan Planning Organization, in partnership with BikeCharlottesville, the City of Charlottesville, Albemarle County, and the University of Virginia. It will allow transportation planners to better understand how cyclists use the current transportation system. Cyclists will use the App to map their ride and then upload the data. Staff will use the uploaded data for mapping to determine, key cycling corridors, barriers and routes.–TJPDC
(kick-off ride for the mApp. Local cyclists parallel the John Warner Parkway.)
2012/04/14
Tom Tom Founders Festival
Beer, music, food, people, perfect weather and a Bear in progress (sculptor Ed Miller)
2012/04/13
happy birthday
to our hero, the lady who plants trees (and gets in trouble for sitting next to them)
2012/04/12
Holloway house
The physical accommodation of a community requires more than the addition of a bunch of “roofs.”
A community is about scale and detail, about context, about soil, about lighting, about gardens, about mass and form. It is critical to create a place worth caring about, a place worth loving.
These things are part of the armature, they lend stability. In a living neighborhood our homes are more than storage places for isolated individuals, they are a part of the larger community, they relate a narrative about us and about our predecessors.
(A neighbor was arrested for trespassing, attempting to persuade the real estate developer to preserve the trees.
The Hook, WVIR and the Daily Progress have the story.)
2012/04/11
2012/04/10
homo sapiens
Humans are uniquely adept at utilizing systems of communication for self-expression, the exchange of ideas, and organization. Humans create complex social structures composed of many cooperating and competing groups, from families and kinship networks, to nations. Social interactions between humans have established an extremely wide variety of values, social norms, and rituals, which together form the basis of human society.–Wikipedia
