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Spoken Word Up

Last year Stefan and Ann were leading walks round Antwerp with 200 recent immigrants, asking them to text in their feelings about the landmarks of their new home town, or spending a night turning all of the city’s buses into Stadschromosomen text points.

This year they're taking things a little bit easier by podcasting Antwerp's official city poet.

It's in Dutch, so I've no idea what's being said, but it sounds great.

The Greenbacks Of Civilisation

"Carte de Visite photographs were wildly popular and made for decades in countries around the world. The format was an international standard; for the first time, relatives and friends could exchange portraits, knowing they would find a place in the recipient's family album--whether that album was located in Brooklyn, Berlin or Brazil...

They became so widespread that by 1863 Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes would write, "Card portraits, as everybody knows, have become the social currency, the 'green-backs' of civilization."

An exhibition of Carte de Visite photographs, which I found from this thoroughly recommended reading.

And some nice paragraphs about vernacular photography.

Not So Much As A By-Your-Leave

Talk about a creative commons. Even the Lonely Planet is giving away stickers and getting people to write poems.

The fun stops here though, because

turns out to be

because it's the brainchild of

who is an

But don't be disappointed because

So that's all right then.