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FIXER UPPER

Some tags are impossible to read if you don’t know any of the artists. According to BoredPanda.com “Mathieu Tremblin is a French artist who decided to fi x this. He paints over the ugly graffi ti and makes them legible.” It could be Bored Panda is looking to generate comments... According to other sources, Tremblin’s work lives in the valley where the digital and real worlds meet. He once painted “gettyimages” on a car park wall to look like a watermark in any photos taken there. Translating tags into Helvetica is part of a project to turn the tags into word clouds. —MV

THE MARCH CONTINUES

Tell your Senator you support S.42 if you want to help the organization inspired by Stoneman Douglas High School students. The bill introduced to the Senate on January 8, 2019, “establishes new background check requirements for fi rearm transfers between private parties.” March For Our Lives also seeks to raise the federal age of gun ownership and possession to 21, restore the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban, and ban the sale of high-capacity magazines and bump stocks in the United States. According to marchforourlives.com, “we will stay loud until this bill becomes a law.”

MARCH For OUR LIVES

The Coney Island March for Our Lives

Madeline Vega

After a gunman murdered more kids in a school shooting, marches were organized to say enough. I took Kal to the one in Coney Island because I’ve sat through at least two active shooter drills at his school. It’s gross that parents will argue children shouldn’t do fire drills without their coats but background checks are extreme. —MV

TINY GOOD-BYE

Even though the boys and I were pulling apart old electronics for fun in the summer of 2017, we didn’t think to dismantle our old rear projection TV, affectionately named Tiny.

More than once, I had replaced the lamp inside this beast of a television after we paid too much to have a repair shop take it away the fi rst time the lamp burnt out. But in 2017, the electronics seemed to be beyond repair and there were too many cheap fl at screens on the market to justify ordering another lamp.

Tiny was too big to put in the car to take to a recycling center and the city would never haul him. Finally, I realized I could turn him into more manageable pieces with a screwdriver. We bid adieu. —MV

FAMILY OUTING

Prince Robot and family?

Madeline Vega

The discarded tube TVs reminded me of Prince Robot from Saga. I took this picture in March 2018, but still had not read the series and might not have known about the infant robot... —MV

That's a big umbrella

Madeline Vega

TOO MUCH IS NEVER ENOUGH

Is there even a baby in this stroller? Walking in the rain in Midtown, the joke is always that other people have patio umbrellas out, but I had to take a picture when I saw this woman on a sunny day in August. Maybe she’s hoping to catch some air and take fl ight like Mary Poppins. —MV

CAN’T UNSEE

Awkward Family Photos went through a phase where I didn’t fi nd their shares that surprising or entertaining, but this dog was so creepy I had to take a screenshot in February 2018. I can’t stop staring at it, deciding it looks more and more human the longer I look. —MV