They are captioned: First Citizens, White Men, Central Park, Mass Transit, Visitors, Street Music, Gathering and The Sea.
Without a critical mass of visitors to their sites, many of these smaller companies are devising strategies that involve clamping on to sites like MySpace and Facebook and trying to make money off their traffic.
They were closed last night, but a few hours earlier, at Saturday lunchtime, the alleyways would have been a seething mass of visitors, some on a mission to buy oysters, venison, French cheese, Ethiopian takeout, or Croatian white-truffle honey, others just to gawp.
Huffington Post: There was a long period from when you launched the site to when you actually started to see a critical mass of visitors, right?
Thompson countered with a story about a MASS MoCA visitor who sat down on a Robert Rauschenberg work that looked solid but was in fact a trough of water.
Of the 16 destinations being focused on, Bali, Yogyakarta and Jakarta are most ready to welcome masses of visitors, aside from needing a little extra "push" to improve infrastructure, Ms. Pangestu said.
This transformation made possible by a combination of shrewd entrepreneurship, access to water, an extensive transportation network, and permissive state laws—has created the city now often known simply as "Vegas," a place of vast casinos, elaborate hotels, and spectacular entertainment venues that attracts masses of visitors from throughout the world.
But in common with most mass tourists, these visitors have begun to threaten the very monument they come to admire.
As mass tourism boomed, visitors would cross the river to visit the Boboli Gardens and Pitti Palace, but bypass the rest of this characterful area of narrow streets and artisans' workshops.
The mass of ordinary visitors were every bit as alien to me as the few Mennonite families in their nineteenth-century bonnets and long beards.
A new, wonderful piece of civic infrastructure, Skyway Monte Bianco could open up the mountain's southern side to mass tourism, whisking visitors to Punta Helbronner at 3,452 metres on the French border in a few minutes.
