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Stephanie Buer began pursing her art career in Detroit, Michigan. She fell in love with urban exploration and spent the next ten years developing her art there.

Her urban landscapes explore the many layers of history found in the marginal areas of our cities. She is fascinated by how these places change as they succumb to the manipulation of vandals, artists and the resilience of nature ever slowly growing alongside. Stephanie finds beauty and peace in these forgotten and unloved areas of our cities.

“There are so many things that I love about these places. They have such history, and so many stories to tell. I like to think about the energy and creativity that first went into the building of these places, the architecture alone is amazing. Then after its abandonment, I love seeing how buildings succumb to nature and eventually how they have the potential to bring out so much creativity in the artists that visit them. Its a strange combination of abandonment and life. I enjoy the thrill of exploring and going into places where others would be too cautious to travel and seeing new beauty where people may only see ugliness and waste. - Via IllSociety

Stephanie produces color paintings and charcoal drawings and is currently exhibiting at Thinkspace in her sold-out solo show. - thru May 19th.

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Travel Bites

1. •Las Vegas has the most hotel rooms in the world.
   

2. •Mexico City is sinking at an average rate of 10cm a year, 10 times faster than Venice.
   

3. •London’s Metropolitan Railway was the world’s first subway. The 6km section opened in 1863, ran between Paddington and Farringdon, and proved a hit despite steam trains filling stations and tunnels with dense smoke.
   

4. •The United States federal government owns more than 1/3 of the land in Colorado.
   

5. •The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
   

6. •The distinction of the longest street in the world belongs to Yonge Street in the Province of Ontario.
   

7. •Contrary to the 1969 film "Krakatoa - East of Java", (and the B-52’s song) Krakatoa was in fact, WEST of Java.
   

8. •Holland has the highest museum density in the world, with almost 1000 museums.
   

9. •The Eiffel Tower was initially intended to be dismantled and sold as scrap 20 years after its construction, but this never happened.
   

10. •Mountain peaks are jagged because it is so cold high up that the rocks are often shattered by frost.
    

11. •Gennaro Lombardi opened the first United States pizzeria in 1895 in New York City.
    

12. •In Arizona, it is against the law for donkeys to sleep in bathtubs.
    

13. •There are an estimated 450 souvenir shops in Venice, with half the population involved in the tourist industry to some degree.
    

14. •The Hollywood Bowl is the world's largest outdoor amphitheater.
    

15. •Current US maps do not include old Route 66. The last stretch of the road disappeared from "official” maps in 1985.
    

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Darla Teagarden, 2/23/12

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May at Minna Gallery

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Imagine by Jonah Lehrer

Shattering the myth of muses, higher powers, even creative “types,” Jonah Lehrer demonstrates that creativity is not a single gift possessed by the lucky few.

There are many hotels which feature themed rooms - decorated, painted and adorned by artists. We will be  featuring one each week.

Four special room types include the mirror room, the hanging bed room, the aquarium room, and the loft room featuring original site-specific works of Singapore's emerging artists: Safaruddin Abdul Hamid (aka Dyn), Andre Tan, Lee Meiling, Heleston Chew, Tay Bee Aye, Kng Mian Tze, Miguel Chew, Sandra Lee, Justin Lee. Below, top: Marker-and-acrylic mural by Sandra Lee in the Cheshire Suite makes a double bath even more fun!

The New Majestic Link

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Amy Kollar Anderson

5/16/12

Jean Paul Gaultier, currently at the De Young Museum in San Francisco. Words really escape us for how friggin' wonderful this show really is!

LINK to lots of pics & review