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Update #4: Arcade Parade Rewards on the Way!
Driftin' Detourners, Visionary Crosswalkers, and Radical Pedestrians,
Thanks again for making the Arcade Parade a huge success! The donor rewards were shipped on Monday, so expect your map, poster (and) patches any day now! Apologies for my delayed shipping lead-time. Please let me know if your shipping tube does not arrive by sometime next week.
Many thanks and Infinite Freedom,
Graham
Update #3: The Arcade Parade: a Pedestrian Success
Thanks to everyone who participated in the Arcade Parade on Saturday! Through blocks played and plazas performed, Holly Whyte Way is cemented as path and place.
Look out for pictures and videos from the parade in the coming days. Starting this weekend, I will also be sending out the donor prizes, including high-fives, maps and F-POPS patches!
Long live the POPS.
Thanks again,
Graham + the F-POPS team
Update #2: The Arcade Parade Kickstarter SUCCESS!
F-POP'ers United,
Thank you to the 22 backers thus far who have ensured the Arcade Parade's success! We have met our fundraising goal of $777, and some. The F-POPS team is honored with the support and excited about Saturday. Please continue to encourage your friends to donate as the extra money will help cover our high-than-expected printing costs, plus extra food for the performers and guests.
Here is a little sneak preview of the flags and armbands nearing completion...
Thank you all again and see you in Holly Whyte Way!
Graham + the F-POPS team...
Update #1: 62% and climbing!
Hi F-POP'ers!
Its only been five days since the Arcade Parade Kickstarter went live and we have already raised $489, or 62% of our $777 goal! Thank you to all of our backers. You are actively turning Holly Whyte Way from a pedestrian vision into a concrete reality!
Walk on,
Graham + the F-POPS team...
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Funding Successful
This project successfully raised its funding goal on October 15, 2011.
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Footloose flanuer: Unlimited supply of high-fives from organizers Brian Nesin, David Grider, Graham Coreil-Allen and Christina Kelly.
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Driftin' detourner: High-fives, plus your very own signed, archival print of the official New Public Sites, Holly Whyte Way map.
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Visionary crosswalker: High-fives, the signed, archival print, plus your name on the back of the free maps we are giving out to all participants!
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Radical Pedestrian: High-fives, the signed map, you participation fame, and a limited edition, custom embroidered F-POPS, Holly Whyte Way patch!
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To playfully explore a thrilling urban sublime through drifting symbols of invisible sites; this is why I make art. As an interventionist public artist, I am interested in the constructs, semiotics and contradictions of our everyday environment. Through urban analysis and research, I develop projects that test the boundaries of pedestrian agency, interpret the overlooked and banal, and investigate the negotiable nature of public space. Situated within disparate urban zones of overlap, rupture, ambiguity and interstice, my ongoing New Public Sites project addresses how lost spaces and overlooked features of the city are experienced at a pedestrian level. The project starts with a radically expanded understanding of civic space and proposes alternatives for representing and activating the potential for such under-recognized sites. Primary components of my work include subtle, outdoor architectural installations, observational videos on public space, interactive walking tours, and various fantastical and discursive maps. Whether marking paths for pedestrian trespassing, framing provocative city vistas, or encouraging participants to find poetic meaning in discrete urban moments, I always bring a sense of play and critical engagement to public space.
