Every city has its urban eccentrics — those can’t-miss characters who seem to make full-time jobs out of being seen (and sometimes heard) around town.
From bare-chested marvels to perpetual protesters with crazy signs, these colorful people are being turned into unlikely internet celebrities by a new breed of local websites that use social networks, citizen reporting, mapping mashups and a healthy dose of humor to chronicle their subjects’ activities.
In Manhattan, the Find He-Man blog publishes readers’ daily sightings of an outrageously muscular, consistently shirtless man who bears a distinct resemblance to the comic book hero.
“He’s kind of a local celebrity,” says Paul Briganti, a student at the School of Visual Arts who launched the blog with his comedy group, beast. “It started because I was at a bank talking to a friend about this guy and someone overheard me and knew who we were talking about. Then I started to […]
Original post by Brendan Spiegel
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