At the Curb, Wheels for Free Expression
December 2010 The New York Times
If the residents of the Haight, the Castro, the Mission and other San Francisco neighborhoods were given a giant public chalkboard, what would they write?
Grant Gordon knows — thanks to his 2001 Toyota Echo.
Sixteen months ago, Mr. Gordon, a Daly City native, covered the car — its metal surfaces, at least — in black chalkboard paint, converting it into a mobile, erasable canvas. Whenever he parks, he leaves a box of multicolored sidewalk chalk hanging from the window for passers-by.
