Author: Andrea Steudel
Why Snow Dancing Will Change Your Life
My Two Sense: Rainbow Highway
Streaking in a silver bullet, cutting stacks of water walls, moping the exterior torrent. It’s a perfect Japanese comfort pod though my muscles tense in spite of it – anticipating an unrequited role in the heroic effort at hand. Then I enter my first rainbow. Yes, I drive inside a rainbow. My vision is hopeless, […]
Touring Green Line Green Infrastructure
This past Saturday I participated in a tour of Green Line “Green Infrastructure” as part of Public Art Saint Paul’s City Art Collaboratory Program. We are a group of multidisciplinary artists and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) professionals who embark on monthly field trips together, exploring the living systems of the City of Saint […]
My Two Sense: 94 Bus at Rush Hour
I stand in the aisle to make room for all the meat in this freezer. My arms are extended out in “Y” formation to clutch the cold bars, holding my stance steady as the vessel lurches and rumbles under my feet. Sticky skins wick with delight. Even above the crying baby I hear the story […]
My Two Sense: Gas Station in Saint Michael, MN
I’m sitting in my car next to the gas pump listening to the hard rain. It’s falling in that way that sounds like rolling pebbles. I can hear engines murmuring nearby and a man chattering violently on his phone about how people give you looks when you buy less than $5 in gasoline. I got […]
Preach it, Ciclovia
I may not be a city planner but I have been an event planner ever since coordinating my junior prom. It’s great fun predicting and observing how crowds behave, especially in outdoor and public space. One of my favorite events to admire is the Ciclovia, a weekly event in Bogota, Colombia during which 70 miles […]