Jim Walker
@walkerjj
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co-founder of @bigcar — artist, designer of spaces, places & projects, photographer, writer & explorer + most of all, father & husband in a great family
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Joined July 2008
Reggie Jackson, a.k.a. Mr. October, was called a lot of things during his storied baseball career. A new documentary on Amazon Prime goes beyond the nicknames. via @NYTimes
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Jackson, a.k.a. Mr. October, was called a lot of things during his storied career with the Yankees. A new documentary goes beyond the nicknames.
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Jim Walker (@walkerjj), executive director at Big Car Collaborative (@bigcar) recently wrote a guest post all about music in public spaces for our blog: https://t.co/mL9lGYfWaV Jim also worked with us on the the Hawthorne Community Center's park in Indianapolis!
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"Music in #publicspaces should be carefully considered as a complementary element to the overall comfort and ambience." —@bigcar's @walkerjj Read our new article "The Ambiance of Life: Music in Public Spaces": https://t.co/mL9lGYfoln
#placemaking
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Announcing the 2023 Restaurant and Chef America's Classics Winners — James Beard Foundation
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After a train derailment, Ohio residents are living the plot of a movie they helped make
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When Ben Ratner’s family signed up in 2021 to be extras in the movie “White Noise,” they thought it would be a fun distraction from their day-to-day life in blue-collar East Palestine, Ohio.
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. @walkerjj and Susan Neville share the story of groundbreaking Indiana author Marguerite Young in our latest episode of Words and Music on @WQRTFM made possible by @INHumanities
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Words and Music is a series of audio programs highlighting the lives and work of Indiana Writers. The series — produced by Big Car Collaborative and first heard on our FM radio station, 99.1 WQRT and...
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Could I Survive the ‘Quietest Place on Earth’? Legends tell of an echoless chamber in an old Minneapolis recording studio that drives visitors insane. I figured I’d give it a whirl. Via @nytimes
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Legends tell of an echoless chamber in an old Minneapolis recording studio that drives visitors insane. I figured I’d give it a whirl.
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Voters See Democracy in Peril, but Saving It Isn’t a Priority — New York Times/Siena College poll found other problems have seized voters’ focus — even as many don’t trust this year’s election results & are open to anti-democratic candidates. via @NYTimes
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A New York Times/Siena College poll found that other problems have seized voters’ focus — even as many do not trust this year’s election results and are open to anti-democratic candidates.
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Early Cormac McCarthy Interviews Rediscovered — The Pulitzer Prize-winning author has done vanishingly few interviews during the course of his career. In these early ones, some newly uncovered, he is less guarded. via @NYTimes
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author has done vanishingly few interviews during the course of his career. In these early ones, some newly uncovered, he is less guarded.
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Big Car co-founders Shauta Marsh and Jim Walker talk with @CharitableAdvis about the responsibilities of nonprofits in taking on the difficult challenges and social issues in their communities.
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I’ve always heard about how all new MLB baseballs are rubbed with mud before being used in games. This is the story of how and why and where the mud comes from. via @NYTimes
https://t.co/8gj8NCJRal
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Jim Bintliff collects the Delaware River mud that is smeared on Major League baseballs to make them less slippery. But that tradition is in jeopardy.
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Terrible idea. The Republican Ticket Is Being Helped by the Last People You’d Expect — via @NYTOpinion
https://t.co/OiyPa0BEcx
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The Republican Party isn’t capable of governing a democracy. And yet Democrats keep helping some of its most unhinged candidates.
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In the Face of Fact, the Supreme Court Chose Faith via @NYTOpinion
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Kennedy v. Bremerton School District reflects the conservative majority’s brazen efforts to inflict its political and religious agenda on the rest of the country.
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When Nature Calls, Phillies Relievers Have a Place to Go — via @NYTimes
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With the Relief Room, a Phillies fan has created an over-the-top shrine to baseball’s most unsung players. It is in his downstairs bathroom.
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Does Hungary Offer a Glimpse of Our Authoritarian Future? https://t.co/7tkXLkCD8H via @NewYorker
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American conservatives recently hosted their flagship conference in Hungary, a country that experts call an autocracy. Its leader, Viktor Orbán, provides a potential model of what a Trump after Trump...
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“Student disengagement is a problem for everyone… College prepares students for socially essential careers … and to be citizens who bring high-level intellectual habits to bear on big societal problems …” via @NYTOpinion
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Late assignments, failed tests, sleeping in class: Welcome to the pandemic-era university.
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A Look Inside the Textbooks That Florida Rejected — The state rejected dozens of math textbooks. The New York Times reviewed 21 of them to figure out why. via @NYTimes
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The state rejected dozens of math textbooks. The New York Times reviewed 21 of them to figure out why.
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What ‘Severance’ Gets Right About Infantilizing Office Perks — via @NYTOpinion
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It’s going to take more than a happy hour or a company-branded coffee mug to persuade employees to return to in-person work.
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