Wear Patterns – Street Use https://kk.org/streetuse This site features the ways in which people modify and re-create technology. Herein a collection of personal modifications, folk innovations, street customization, ad hoc alterations, wear-patterns, home-made versions and indigenous ingenuity. In short -- stuff as it is actually used, and not how its creators planned on it being used. As William Gibson said, "The street finds its own uses for things." I welcome suggestions of links, and contributions from others to include in this compendium. -- KK Wed, 21 Nov 2007 05:35:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.12 Layers of Time https://kk.org/streetuse/layers-of-time/ https://kk.org/streetuse/layers-of-time/#comments Wed, 21 Nov 2007 05:35:41 +0000 Continue reading →]]> I found this on Otherthings Flickr page. It a multilayered paint chip taken from a public mural wall that was recently demolished.

This is an extreme closeup scan (2400 dpi) of a paint chip retrieved from the ruins of Belmont Art Park by Amy McKenzie earlier this year. The fragment is about 1cm thick, and appears to consist of about 150-200 layers of paint. (For a sense of scale, note the ridges of my fingerprint in the lower right.) This should give you an idea of the staggering number of pieces painted in this spot over the decades.  The park used to be surrounded by one long wall covered with artwork, but that wall was illegally demolished by real estate developers earlier this year.

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]]> https://kk.org/streetuse/layers-of-time/feed/ 1 Public Donations Box in Iran https://kk.org/streetuse/public-donations-box-in-iran/ https://kk.org/streetuse/public-donations-box-in-iran/#respond Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:09:53 +0000 Streetologist Jan Chipcase explores far flung places for patterns of vernacular street use. His blog is always rewarding. Recently he noticed public charitable donation boxes around the city of Tehran, Iran. Presumably folks put in their loose change.

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