Park(ing) Day DC

Park(ing) Day DC
Originally uploaded by rllayman

I don't know, doing this in an old parking lot/car lot because DC Department of Transportation wouldn't give you permits seems not too challenging and almost pathetic.

I talked to one of the organizers. He specifically said that this wasn't intended to be a protest.

When I pointed out that the originators of Park(ing) Day, Rebar, an artist design performance collective in San Francisco, didn't "ask permission" from the City of San Francisco to do their "performance art" project when they created Park(ing) Day, he countered that California is different, that they expect and are comfortable with protest. By contrast, he didn't say this but he implied it--DC is more institutionally oriented and less open to challenging mores and conventions...

From the New York Times Book Review, "How Brandeis, Revered or Hated, Became a Giant of the Supreme Court":

“Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards,” Brandeis wrote. “They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty.”