geek out with History Pin

Check out the video below for history pin.

Cool, right?

HPL is working on adding to their own collection of history pins here. See what buildings looked like 20, 50, even over a hundred years ago!

Supercrawl!

This Saturday is Supercrawl downtown! If you don't know what that is, check out their fantastic website here.   This Saturday is ALSO the Locke street festival and there will be buses going to and fro, so don't worry about transportation.

There's lots of awesome bands who are going to be playing and lots of amazing art (of course). Here at the library we will be announcing the winner of our children's LEGO contest and Deborah Ellis (!!!) will also be here launching her latest book, True Blue. I know a lot of you have read her books so if you want a chance to see her live and in person, come to Central Library at 1:30 p.m.

Beautification Nation

I walk under the McNab underpass near Hunter on my way to work every morning and yesterday there was a beautiful mural for me to ogle as I walked through. How gorgeous! I'm sure there's lots of beautiful legal street art in our city but this is the only mural I've really seen - if you know of more, let me know in comments.

I used to date a street artist and no matter what city we were in, he used to be able to pick out artists by their tags or styles. Since then I've been interested in it. If you'd like to see some gorgeous street art, I've made a handy list of some of HPL's resources here.

I also called the city to find out where in the city street artists could legally tag and was disappointed to hear that right now there isn't anywhere (although apparently there used to be). I've put in a call with a city counsellor though so stay tuned - how cool would it be to do street art as a library program?

ps. I'm not advocating illegally vandalising public property or anything like that so don't go around tagging stuff and then tell your parents/teachers/the police that the librarian said it was okay!
pps. I'm drawing tomorrow for the week 2 prize pack so get those reviews in today!