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A Street Painting Festival - Via Colori
Benefiting The Center for Hearing and Speach, the only full-service resource in Houston, Texas that teaches deaf children to listen and speak without the use of sign language. Since 1947, the Center has helped thousands of Houston-area children gain listening , speaking and literacy skills - the tools they need to achieve independence in society.
well, its minimal at least, and maybe more than a tad bit artsy-fartsy.... and def been done before?
The 'Nob Hill Pigs' seen here along NW 23rd Avenue are not a permanent installation and often times move around. The first of the three pigs was created by the late Seattle sculptor, Richard Beyer. In a collaborative effort, he and Joe Justice created the remaining two sculptures.
Their names are: Porky, Petunia, and Porklandia.
Stencil: SPB - Silly Pink Bunny
by Jeremy Fish
Graffiti on the Sidewalks of Harrison St.
San Francisco, CA
ChalkFest is a non-profit community event held in downtown Wausau, Wisconsin. This art event is open to the public for participation and viewing. Occurring annually on the weekend following the July 4th holiday, it is a two-day "art-a-thon" in chalk on the city square, The 400 Block. Artists are 12 years and older. Younger children are invited to participate in a Children's ChalkFest Mural.
A cool way to view mine or anyone else's photostream is on fluidr.
"Beauty is a value as important as truth and goodness"
The girl has eyes on Franko's "Genesis" while the boy has eyes on the girl.
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The Hat and Boots were a landmark gas station in Georgetown. The hat was the roof of the station house and the boots were the restrooms and later storage rooms. After falling into disrepair and facing demolition they were bought by the community, restored and placed as the prominent feature is this small park in Georgetown.
Really? Big Brother is watching me...?
Funny, because I never watch Big Brother, worst tv show ever!
Seven balls happily sit on the relief of the northeast bridge tower in downtown Chicago. It was quite an experience photographing these seven balls. Normally when I place artwork downtown, it's a single small piece and nobody pays attention. In fact, most people just pass it by without noticing.
But as I was photographing these seven bouncy balls, all these tourists were coming up looking at them. One boy even asked me if I placed them there. I happily explained, "yes, i did. And when I'm done photographing them, I leave them there for people to take." He said it was cool.
They got such attention that as soon as I walked away people were walking up to them reading them and some took some. I shot some video of people's reactions. But then I think people felt awkward cuz there was this dude standing in the distance with a tripod in hand and a camera pointing at them for more then just a couple seconds.
I moved over to the gate and placed my camera on top of the bridge gate box and simply let my camera record. I still have to go back and edit that video, as I wasn't watching people. I wanted them to feel natural to approach the artwork and take it.
As I was letting my camera record video, I pulled out my cell phone to make it look normal that I was just standing there hanging out. So what do I pull up on my iPhone? My favorite time-filler of the past couple months, Instagram.
As I'm looking through the Instagram feed, I saw that lokate posted a photo of bouncy balls! With a message to me! Yaaaay! What a great surprise! instagr.am/p/GhYUW/ And all while I was videotaping people picking up bouncy balls! I was so happy to see the photo, I was bouncing up and down like a bouncy ball. :-)
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ABOUT THE BOUNCY BALLS
"Have a ball today" reads on one side of the signs. "Pass it along" reads on the flip side of each sign. This is the first time I used the phrase "Pass it along" on the backside of the bouncy ball signs.
As I was writing out the little signs with "Have a ball today" I was thinking of putting an email address on the back of the sign for people to email me, if they wish. And then thinking about that sort of interactivity, what I really want with this project is for people to share the bouncy balls. Just as I shared these with the finder, I would love for the finder to share it with others.
This project is about finding something fun. And having fun with it. I absolutely love bouncy balls. They are fun to just bounce around while walking. Or to bounce in the elevator.
Brainstorm for this project:
www.spudart.org/blog/idea-take-bouncy-ball-attach-note-sa...
Bouncy balls on the train:
www.spudart.org/blog/the-bouncy-ball-the-train/
Bouncy balls on escalators:
www.spudart.org/blog/no-bouncy-balls-escalators
Bouncy balls elevator challenge (WEBCOMIC):
www.spudart.org/blog/elevator-bouncy-ball-challenge/
Bouncy balls left in public (PHOTOS):
www.flickr.com/photos/spudart/sets/72157624365405148
Bouncy balls left in public (VIDESO):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A0UWMYx2xg&p=15D4C44DD01A90AE
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ABOUT THE SCULPTURE
The sculpture that these bouncy balls are sitting on is a relief by James Earle Fraser named "Discoverers."
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From chicago-outdoor-sculptures.blogspot.com/2008/11/defense-r...:
The discoverers commemorates four European explorers who passed through the Chicago area in the late 1600's. Louis Joliet and Father Jacques Marquette were the first non-native people known to explore the map of Mississippi River system. The traveled down the Chicago River in 1674 on their return to the Great Lakes from the Mississippi Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur De LaSalle and Henri De Tonti explored the entire Mississippi River basin between 1679 and 1682.
Below the sculptural bas relief is inscribed ...
"The Discoverers - Jolliet, Father Marquette, La Salle, and Tonti will live in American history as fearless explorers who made their way through the Great Lakes and across this watershed to the Mississippi in the late seventeenth century and typify the spirit of brave adventure which has always been firmly planted in the character of the middle west.
Presented to the city by William Wrigley Jr., 1928."
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The sculpture is also a favorite place of mine to leave public artwork.
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Hi-res print available at www.deviantart.com/print/20378994/
Springdance 2011 international festival for contemporary dance and performance.
To support the campaign of the festival I made this 3d street painting of a cube, the logo of the festival
in her hands.
My little sister, the blonde haired, blue eyed beauty. She's already passed me in height, and she's only 13. She got the looks alright.
(Please excuse my improvised world. The sun was setting, so I had to act quickly.)