![An image from Julia Reyes Taubman's book, 'Detroit: 138 Square Miles'](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130119224901im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/detroit-pic-11-150x150.jpg)
Detroit: 138 Square Miles
Ever discover what you want to write about something, after reading what someone else wrote about something else? Happens to me all the time—most recently, when I read an article from The Guardian that Rainey posted on facebook. It was written by Alain de Botton, an essayist with many good ideas about aesthetics and [...]
![Crime Scene 1 (photo by Justin Parr)](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130119224901im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/crimescene1-150x150.jpg)
Potter Belmar Labs in SA and Aaron Forland’s guerrilla public art: Goodbye to all that (fer now)
Aaron Forland, San Antonio visual artist, SA’s unofficial DIY/underground/punk rock historian and creator of the “Keep San Antonio Lame” meme, has been and continues to extol the paradoxical and decorate the prosaic. Some of my favorite “undocumented” works by Forland, the clandestine installation of small but potent abstract works affixed to the doors on [...]