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Kandyce likes bonfires. Andrew has a penchant for paperclips. And Kristen is keen for subtitles, postage, and "saying hello." Well, hello. This group—along with Jessica (knuckle-cracking), Lily (tomatoes), and Sam (negative ions)—make up the Urban Curators, a merry band of design students who have turned the most ravaged walls and overgrown lots of Providence, Rhode Island into their own public gallery.

Here's how it started. Reportedly introduced at a workshop on Semiotic Disobedience at the Rhode Island School of Design, the artists discovered that they have one predilection in common: a passion for urban disrepair. They tracked down frames. They coated the squares with gold paint. And they fanned out across their adopted city looking for boarded-up windows, graffiti-marked walls, and any spot that's seen its day—and ready to be showed off. Framed and photographed, even the most despairing surface takes on a special gleam.

Browse through the photos on their site; watch the videos; leave a comment if you'd like. And then, make like the urban curators and take new note of the aging, neglected parts of your town. You may find your own inner city museum.

Dec 14, 2007
The Handlebar Club - Meet Steve Parsons, secretary of London's fellow hood of exuberantly mustachioed men, The Handlebar Club.

Dec 12, 2007
Online and Subversive - Meet David Rees, creator of one of the Web's most sarcastic (and profane) comic strips.

Dec 10, 2007
French Laundry at Home - Meet Carol, a passionate home chef bent on making every recipe in 'The French Laundry' cookbook.

Dec 07, 2007
The National UFO Reporting Center - Peter Davenport is the man behind one of the earliest UFO sites on the Web.

Dec 05, 2007
Little People - London's overrun with 'little hand painted people.' And the artist Slinkachu is behind it.

Dec 03, 2007
Mary-Kate, Ashley, and Erin - Erin Balser produces a popular blog on the Olsen twins -- as well as three other pop culture sites.

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