In Philadelphia, solar powered, compacting garbage cans that one has to touch to open? Embarrassing to say the least….

I recently traveled to Syracuse with Steve Powers and company to paint 3 train trestles on the border of the near west side and downtown neighborhoods, see more pics HERE

Megawords will be celebrating the release of our thirteenth issue with a party as part of the annual Art & Soul Food celebration in Brewerytown. We’re also putting together a street level installation inside an old news stand on the corner of 27th and Girard. Come check it out and grab a copy of the latest issue!

Saturday June 12
2 till 6pm
27th and Girard

Directions and more info here.

This issue of Megawords features work by Gary Fogelson, Rebekah Maysles, LeJosh, ourselves, and a very important essay entitled Teen Sex Energy / Land Money Power by Matt Schwartz.

If you can’t make it to the party, get your copy of the magazine here: www.megawordsmagazine.com

Issue 13 is now available! Get a copy here: http://megawordsmagazine.com/shop/example-category/issue-thirteen/

This issue of Megawords features work by Gary Fogelson, Rebekah Maysles, LeJosh, ourselves, and a very important essay entitled Teen Sex Energy by Matt Schwartz.

INSPIRATION AND CREATIVITY TALKS AT RUTGERS CAMDEN
This month at Rutgers Camden Diana Lind, editor and publisher of Next American City magazine, will talk about her career in independent media and how the next generation of web entrepreneurs are changing life in cities.

Diana Lind is the editor in chief of Next American City,a national urban affairs magazine and non-profit with the mission of promoting socially, economically and environmentally sustainable cities. Prior to joining Next American City, Ms. Lind wrote about architecture for Architectural Record, and authored the book Brooklyn Modern: Architecture, Interiors & Design. She received her B.A. from Cornell University, her M.F.A. from Columbia University and has lectured at Drexel University, University of Windsor, and the Creative Cities Summits, among other places.

Please join us!
April 22, 2010
12:30pm
Directions here:
www.camden.rutgers.edu

Donate here: http://kck.st/9VuaxL

We are using Kickstarter to help raise funds to continue to publish Megawords (and a do a few other Megawords related projects) throughout the next year.

WITH YOUR HELP MEGAWORDS WILL: 1. Be able to print 2 issues of the magazine through 2011. Each issue is usually between 48 and 96 pages, mostly color, and printed in various sizes and on different paper stock. We choose the size an stock that suits our current subject matter, and helps us tell the story best.

2. Create a site-specific installation project in Philadelphia. Along with our collaborators on both coasts, we will put together a public art installation in Philadelphia. You may have seen what we did with the Megawords storefront http://megawordsmagazine.com/projects/sample-project and our other projects here http://megawordsmagazine.com/projects. These will give you a taste for what we are planning.

3. Pay for smaller operational costs like our web server, distribution, shipping, packaging etc. There are a lot of small costs associated with running an independent, advertisement free magazine, and having these costs taken care of will help us focus on the business of putting together the best publication possible.

In preparation for the upcoming Shadfest at Penn Treaty Park, LeJosh has taken it upon himself  to bring some color to Columbia Ave under I-95, a main walking corridor from the Fishtown neighborhood to the park. Stop by and check out his progress, he’ll even give you a brush and some paint if you’d like to help out.