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Wind Machine
2002
This is one of Vollis Simpson's Whirligigs. It is located in the park at the NC Museum of Art in Raleigh.
"Simpson’s fame came near the end of his life. He was born in 1919 to a farming family with 12 children. As a boy, he helped his father supplement the family income by moving houses. After retiring at 65, he started tinkering around with his collection of odd parts. Using some of the same rigs he’d developed for moving houses, Simpson began constructing enormous windmills in his yard. The Whirligigs incorporate highway and road signs, HVAC fans, bicycles, ceiling fans, mirrors, stovepipes, I-beams, pipe, textile mill rollers, ball bearings, aluminum sheeting, various woods, steel rods, rings, pans, milkshake mixers and many more such materials form the support and moving parts.
In 2010, a plan was announced to create the Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park in Historic Downtown Wilson, NC. Simpson died in 2013 at 94, but not before seeing the first of his creations installed in the park that bears his name."
Vollis is considered an outside artist. Another one of his whirligigs is located in Baltimore, MD at the American Visionary Museum. He brought a lot of tourists to his farm. I wish I had made the time to visit while he was still alive.
It was windy, so I had to lean against the pole. The sky kept changing. I took out some spots in the blue paint and added a border with ON1 Effects.
You can see some other shots from the park on my flickr site: www.flickr.com/photos/needlepointernc/
If you came over my house and laid down on my dining room table, this is what it would look like.
But if I were you, I'd take a good, hard look at that table before plopping down. You never know what sticky substance the girls might have left behind.
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Taughannock Falls State Park on Sunday Jul 21, 2013.
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For FGr and Looking UP.
I bought a shedload of balloons and helium for Diego's birthday the other week, and have loads left over.
So today, Diego and I got a few out, wrote our name and postcodes on a piece of paper and popped them inside the balloons. We also drew faces on them. ;-)
I let go of my balloon shortly after taking this shot and the last time I saw it, it was heading for Stroud, so keep your eyes peeled.
I can't help thinking that this would have looked so much better if we had a beautiful blue sky today.