Culture Making items tagged public+transit Culture Making:Main column content 2008-11-21T22:39:26Z Copyright (c) 2008, Nate Barksdale ExpressionEngine tag:culture-making.com,2008:11:21 The El, by Daniel Hauben tag:culture-making.com,2008:author/9.647 2008-11-21T15:30:46Z 2008-11-21T22:39:26Z Nate Barksdale natebarksdale@gmail.com Nate: “One of six colored-glass panels at the Freeman Street Station in the Bronx. The medium is a sturdier version of stained glass, with inch-thick colored segments joined together with epoxy. I love, obviously, the vibrancy of the panels, and the fact that they're a celebration of, basically, the neighborhood just below the station (which you can glimpse through that gap below the partition) -- saying, in effect, this isn't just a way-station on your journey to somewhere else, but a Place in itself.”
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panel from "The El", by Daniel Hauben, photo by David Goldman for the New York Times, from "Bronx Artist’s Glass Work Is Recognized," by Sewell Chan, NYTimes.com, 13 August 2008
]]> A bit of 1990s Kenyan public transit hip-hop tag:culture-making.com,2008:author/9.546 2008-11-21T15:30:46Z 2008-11-21T22:39:26Z Nate Barksdale natebarksdale@gmail.com


Nate: “There's quite a lot of cultural info and aspiration packed into this video. I'm not sure whether its plea for greater public safety fell, or would fall, on the young men who work for Nairobi's privately-provided public transit.”
Look, Think, Stay Alive, by Jimmy Gathu, 1993 :: via Africanhiphop.com ]]>