What do you do when people ask you what to do when visiting your town? Do you provide an itinerary of favorite views? A list of the best places to eat? Suggestions based on smell? ("Here's where the chocolate factory is, but stay away from the fish market!") Does it ever occur to you to send them to the places that sound the best? I admit, I'd never thought of this until I saw Nicola Hume's great concept Listen Here. Check it out:

 

Listen Here from Nicola Hume on Vimeo.

Isn't it a lovely idea? And while it might not actually be in production (yet?), it got me thinking about my city in  way I never have before. When people come to stay I'm always wracking my brain for the perfect place for them to have dinner or see a show, but realistically this is information they could get anywhere. It takes a local to point someone towards the strangely peaceful park in the middle of the city, or the cemetery full of cackling wild parrots. And sometimes it takes a concept like Nicola Hume's to get people to think this way about their hometowns at all.

(via Laughing Squid)

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