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If you're searching for a daily fix of art from the underground, look no further than Streetsy. Curated by Jake Dobkin, this amazing site offers up fresh street art every day. Besides the beautiful (and familiar) spray paint pieces on display in his epic online gallery, Dobkin provides a look at all forms of semi-illicit creativity bubbling up from the boulevard. You'll stumble across stencils, stickers, and sculpture in the colorful compendium of photos. Browse through the collection by region and glimpse the personalized streets of San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York City. With every visit, you'll see a stream of new images thanks to a feed from Dobkin's Flickr photo pool, which is over 89,000 pictures strong. Take our advice and open your eyes to the wealth of public art staring back at you from the streets where you live.

Karen Gadbois and Laureen Lentz

The size and scope of Hurricane Katrina sent New Orleans residents across the country, and many still want to return. But without a house, it's not an easy task.

With Squandered Heritage, Karen Gadbois, Laureen Lentz, and Sarah Elise Lewis banded together to track lists upon lists of demolitions for the community—sometimes being the first to tell homeowners that their homes were on the chopping block. They've spend countless hours at citywide meetings, scanning through documents, photographing homes, and helping their neighbors rescue the unique heritage of the Crescent City.

In the midst of all their work, the trio still had time to share what inspires them and what they love about New Orleans.

What made you decide to start Squandered Heritage?

Karen: To capture our city as it was Post Katrina. Then tell the story of demolitions and the impact of loss.

Laureen: I met Karen at a small soirée last August. Architecture has been a lifelong passion since my teenage years in Chicago, and one reason I love New Orleans. Our streetscapes provide an enchanting background for the mundane routine of daily life and work. I was beginning to become concerned about the impact of the demolitions on our historic districts, and was already taking photos of hand demolitions done before Karen and I met. So the partnership was a perfect match. Read the full profile...

As often as he can, Richard Reynolds hits the streets of London to slyly plant, secretly weed, and sneakily leave behind beautiful greenery. Devoted to making his city a more habitable, foliage-friendly place, he is a revolutionary with a water can. And he's not the only one.

Since launching the web site Guerrilla Gardening, Richard has connected with nighttime planters from around the world and appeared in numerous TV and newspaper stories. We reviewed his site in May of last year. Now, Richard tells us how he got started and why the Web itself is like one big "communal picnic."

When did you first commit an act of "illicit cultivation"?

It was late at night in October 2004. The immediate surroundings of the central London tower block that was my home was a horrible horticultural mess, a blot on the landscape and a personal embarrassment. It had been for all of the four months I had known it: overgrown shrubs, piles of litter, dead rose bushes, weeds, and general misery.

During this time the block was going through a difficult patch. The council stepped in to take back control of the building from the imploding tenants management organisation, and whilst observing these civic meetings I concluded positive action would be a lot more effective than conversation. I just started gardening to make me more proud of where I lived, to cheer others up, and to flex my itchy green fingers for the first time since moving in. Read the full profile...