Artist to lay out 12,000 panels on Philly's streets end-to-end ... if he can raise enough money

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Artist to lay out 12,000 panels on Philly's streets end-to-end ... if he can raise enough money

POSTED: Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 8:34 PM

Filed Under: Arts Visual Art

Courtesy of Gene Schmidt

Gene Schmidt, doing his N.Y. project in 2007.

Gene Schmidt, a New York-based artist, is best known for measuring the width and length of his home city with 30,000 yard sticks. Pretty crazy. Well, dude wants to do something similar in Philly — his plan is to go from North Philly to the University of Pennsylvania, laying out square panels that each have one letter on them, which together spell out St. Paul's texts on love. (Because, as Schmidt says, "Philadelphia is the City of Brotherly Love.")

Problem is, he needs to raise about $13,000 in 38 days to do it (for supplies, a van, stuff and people to document it, and so on). You can donate to the fun cause, titled "Lovetown PA," here, where you can also check out a vid of his plan.

Good luck, Schmidt!

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