New Video - YERTpod18: A Peek at Park(ing) Day in Utah
Dear YERTians,
Just when you think youve seen it all, you find a tiny park stationed on a road in downtown
Just another day in the life of a relatively new eco-artistic tradition called Park(ing) Day, started up by a San Francisco-based art collective known as REBAR. The idea debuted in 2005 as a creative mind-bending art project designed to make you think twice about public spaces. And it works. At least twice.
YERT was delighted to find ourselves in a Park(ing) Day city ON Park(ing) Day! We drove downtown and met up with the Park(ing) People, and did things that we never imagined possible in a busy city street: touch football, croquet, sitting on a bench, strolling barefoot through the grass, chillin on a stump, and making all sorts of new friends. Oh yeswe breathed in a fair amount of car exhaust, too. But it was worth it. Julie won her first game of croquet that day.
Charmed by Sod,
Mark, Ben, and Julie (Your YERT Team)
P.S. And now for the Breadcrumbs! If youd like to find out more information, check out the links below
- Here is a little blurb about REBAR, straight from the Park(ing) Day website: REBAR is a San Francisco-based art collective. Much like a DJ samples recorded sounds, REBAR appropriates elements of the physical/cultural world and remixes them into novel contexts. By remixing the landscape in this way, the group exposes new meanings and alters assumptions about our shared environment. REBAR projects engage social, ecological, and cultural processes as they unfold materially in space and time. While the groups work can be used or interpreted as playful, ridiculous, or absurd, it is also highly functional. REBAR remixes the ordinary, repurposes the ubiquitous, and rebuilds with invisible structural material . . . much like rebar itself.
- Park(ing) day is also organized by The Trust for
- The event got some great press, with articles written by The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.
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