Designed by L.A.’s Com­mon Stu­dio, the Seed­bomb  project has made it’s first instal­la­tion in San Fran­cisco. They use old gum ball machines, fill them with clay balls full of seeds to assist in spread­ing the gorilla guerilla gar­den­ing move­ment. This project helps to turn oth­er­wise dead, grey, and vacant loca­tions into col­or­ful, life filled spaces.

This project needs sup­port and you can help.  For a min­i­mum $1.00 pledge you can help fund this. Go here and help out. Find out more about this over at Inhab­i­tat.

“Nobody walks in L.A.”, at least that’s what Miss­ing Per­sons sang about. Over at GOOD, Ryan Bradley has started a series dis­cussing walk­ing in Los Ange­les, and how to open the city to pedes­trian friendly trans­porta­tion. Nar­row roads that are friendly to on-foot trans­porta­tion are a sta­ple for Euro­pean cities. It brings neigh­bors closer together — which strength­ens the bond of their inhab­i­tants. It builds micro-economic mar­kets and enriches cul­ture. Both of which could use some help in my neighborhood.

I am a strong advo­cate for pedes­trian friendly cities. It’s part of the rea­sons my friends have to put up with my biased love for North­west Port­land — my favorite and for­mer neigh­bor­hood. I now live right on Cesar E Chavez Blvd; which is hor­rific for foot travel and keeps me from enjoy­ing my neigh­bor­hood. I just don’t see the bond between peo­ple the way I did liv­ing in a close, walk friendly part of town. I’m glad some­one is start­ing to ask these ques­tions in Los Ange­les. It could go a long way towards our con­tin­ued efforts to build smarter trans­porta­tion sys­tems through bet­ter urban plan­ning. It could also help small local based busi­nesses open doors and thrive.

Yes! World Cup 2010 is just around the cor­ner. This is a new Nike com­mer­cial to build up your excite­ment. Are you ready? I know I am. This is such a cool commercial.

Oh, I want these! These are Lim­ited Edi­tion skate decks by artist Ian John­son. Fea­tur­ing illus­tra­tions of five of the world’s great­est Jazz Musi­cians. Made by West­ern Edi­tion. The Miles ‘59 series is an homage to the orig­i­nal band that cre­ated the epic record­ing “Kind of Blue” 50 years ago this year. –Rad Col­lec­tor Ian Johnson […]

I went to the open house yes­ter­day for the house I had been work­ing on ear­lier this year. Of course I for­got my cam­era. It looked great with fur­ni­ture though, I swear. I am still busy look­ing for work, but I wanted to take a break and share some things that I’d come across over […]

Jake, I didn’t know you well enough. But you always took the time to say hi, and care. Life is… All images by Colin Smith