If you’ve wandered along North Broad Street lately, you may be scratching your head at the phalanx of stainless steel columns that have suddenly appeared in the center, marching single-file from Callowhill Street to the North Philadelphia station. Are they modernist WiFi antennas? Props for pole dancers? Or maybe just a vulgar gesture aimed at Center City?
Source: philly.com – Changing Skyline: After $14 million on light masts, North Broad remains in the dark ages
I recently had the opportunity to spend a few hours photographing Near who was preparing for a one-off reprise of her character for a show at the Philadelphia Mausoleum of Contemporary Art, where she sang “In Heaven,” the centerpiece of the film’s strange, unsettling industrial world.
Source: Everything is Fine: The Lady in the Radiator Redux
Traverse two short blocks of tiny Pearl Street in Callowhill / Chinatown North this week and you have a chance to see this changing…
Source: PlanPhilly | Perspective shifts along Pearl Street Passage
Work on 12/SG @SEPTA spur station exterior. Reopening or closing up tighter? @Eraserhood pic.twitter.com/tgEbquZhvR
— Steve Kleinedler (@SKleinedler) October 12, 2015
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#Funkytown in the #Eraserhood. Prost, #Polkadelphia.