Officer Putz, who has been on the graffiti beat since 2001, takes his work seriously; he will not allow his face to be photographed and he gives his age merely as "in my 30's," for fear of tipping his hand. "It's a chess game," he said.Sure, San Francisco has a big homeless problem, and there's that whole earthquake thing. But stickers? Now that's a chess game.
We are encouraging visitors to lose themselves physically and emotionally in this great city.Hopefully they won't need too many expensive helicopter searches to find the physically lost visitors.
In May, Montréal became the third city to receive a City of Design award, following Buenos Aires in May 2005 and Berlin in November 2005. Once cities are awarded these designations, they become members of the Alliance's "Creative Cities Network."
Other cities appointed to the network include Aswan, Egypt (as a City of Folk Art), Bologna (as a City of Music), Edinburgh (as a City of Literature), Popayan, Colombia (as a City of Gastronomy), Santa Fe, NM (as a City of Folk Art), and Seville (as a City of Music).
Note that Media Arts and Cinema remain, as of yet, unawarded designations.
We'd like to suggest a new category: City of Untrammeled Coolness. We nominate Ljubljana and Melbourne.
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