Word: graffiti
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...fence is not likely to win any architecture awards. It's a hodgepodge of designs. The best--sections of tall, concrete-filled steel poles deeply rooted, closely spaced and solidly linked at the top--are bluntly functional. The worst--rusting, graffiti-covered, Vietnam-era surplus--are just skeevy walls of welded junk. Whether you think it's a sad necessity or a crude brutality, the fence is not a sight that stirs pride. The operative question, however, is not What does it look like? but How does it work...
...Leave California: When Woody Allen ditched New York for the Old World, he made one of his best films in years, Match Point, in London. Your home turf of Northern California has inspired everything from American Graffiti to Tatooine, but maybe it's time to find a new region for stimulation. Perhaps Hawaii, where you and Steven Spielberg first shook on making Indiana Jones together...
Enter Susan McDonald. The 38-year-old, who moved to Franklin Reserve three years ago, was walking with her kids along one of the development's new foot trails and saw gang graffiti on a fence. "I thought to myself, This is it--I am done," says McDonald. She voiced her concerns on the town website. "I got 85 responses to do something," she says. She helped found the Franklin Reserve Neighborhood Association (FRNA), which today has 405 members. FRNA created a "good neighbor" letter to let absentee landlords know when their renters were causing problems, and organized a Sunday...
...white-sanded littoral paradise of a thousand movies but a grungy, rock-strewn place. A municipal storm drain releases onto the main part of the beach, and a sign warns that the water issuing from it may be unhealthy. The ugly concrete drain structure is maligned by graffiti - "Rizzo [hearts] Jenny" - and gnats attack any exposed skin as soon as you set foot on Fletcher Cove sand. Big, bulbous, black stink bugs fearlessly investigate your feet as soon as you sit; if you let them, they'll crawl right up your leg. At the press conference on Sunday, Solana Beach...
...People say that we're high-tech," Powderly chimes in, "But I can't find a moment where [graffiti] wasn't high-tech. If you look back, you had spray cans - this form of technology that was a little too new to be considered an art form - and this billion-dollar transportation system that taggers used to spread their art. It's not all that different from laser pointers, a new technology, and this immense infrastructure that you find in urban areas...