Labelscar on Craig Ferguson!
In what can only be called an early, very bizarre holiday present to us, viewers throughout North America caught a glimpse of Labelscar tonight (12/23/09) on The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson.
We’ll Be “The Future Of Retail” Blog For a Minute
One of the most disturbing retail trends over the past few years has been the virtual disappearance of old-line department stores. Even if shopping trends aren’t exactly favoring them anymore (and I would argue that there’s not all that many people in the under 30 set who shop at Macy’s very often), there’s still a [...]
Reburbia: Sanctimonious Cankles
This has popped up in a few places already, but Dwell and Inhabitat have been sponsoring this series called “Reburbia” that’s targeted at coming up with ideas to “fix” America’s broken suburban landscapes.
It’s pretty neat, because the finalists are full of really kooky sanctimonious ideas like “suburban people need AIRSHIPS to commute into the culture-rich [...]
Modernist Gas Stations
This is really neat. You can vote on your favorite one.
Brian Ulrich’s “Dark Stores, Ghostboxes, and Dead Malls”
I exchanged a few emails recently with photographer Brian Ulrich, who has been working on a Guggenheim scholarship to travel the United States and take pictures of vacant retail spaces and dead malls before they hit the wrecking ball.
He has a compelling sample of his work up at his website, Not If But When, which [...]
Scenes From a 1990 Mall
Here’s something interesting: some 1990-vintage footage of Los Angeles malls sped up and set to music.
From Joel Fletcher.
New York Times on Rethinking the Mall
The recent economic downturn has sparked a wave of retail bankruptcies, and with it press interest in the phenomenon of distressed shopping malls (as evidenced in the Wall Street Journal piece that mentioned us a few weeks ago, and a recent New York Times blog piece that did the same). Last week the New York [...]
Welcome, Wall Street Journal Readers
Pretty exciting: Labelscar is featured prominently in a story about declining malls on page A1 of today’s Wall Street Journal:
The gradual fade-out of marginal malls has prompted a thriving Web culture dedicated to sharing information about dead or dying properties. Sites such as Flickr.com, Deadmalls.com and Labelscar.com are drawing traffic from mall employees, shoppers and [...]
Labelscar for iPhone & Mobile
Just wanted to let you guys know about another upgrade for Labelscar’s 3rd birthday–a new, fully functional iPhone optimized version of the site! (I’m even writing this post on my iPhone.) we think it’s pretty slick and fun for when you’re on the go. Commenting is significantly easier too.
That’s Right, Something’s Wrong
Some of you may have noticed something strange happened last night. Surprised us as much as you, since it occurred when we weren’t working on the site. However, we’ve upgraded to a new wordpress installation and it seems our customized theme doesn’t work properly anymore. I’m going to work on it this weekend so it [...]
