Stuart of the blog "Tales from the Road", ( Link at "My Blog List" over to the right and down ) recently posted a Panaramic shot he stitched together from a program he downloaded for free from Microsoft. Realizing a similar program came with my computer (PanaramaMaker 5) I decided to give it a go. This is a shot of the reststop off of Freeway 80 between Sacramento and San Francisco and the rest of the Bay area.
(Note the tracks up the hill left by some local motocross bikes, no doubt...naughty-naughty) Off far in the distance is the first view of ocean water in the Bays. Just below is the town of Vallejo and it's fairgrounds near the freeway.
(You can view their sites by clicking on the titles, and see what they blog about as they travel around Scotland and other countries, some really nice articles and lots of great pictures)
Stuart's brother..."Uncle Norrie", or Norman of the blog "You can't tour on a single!" (Also a link at "My Blogs List"...), occasionally posts about "unusual sculpture", a feature I enjoy. On my last trip to the Bay area, I managed to stop and check out some sculpture I have been looking at as I whizz by at 65 MPH for a few years now. I believe they were installed about 5 years ago.
I should back up a few years and talk about the connection between this sculpture and some sculpture from the 60's, 70's, and into the 80's as well.
My first trip to the Bay area was in 1964, when my father left the Air Force and settled us into Sacramento California. Close to the coast and close to the Sierras and Lake Tahoe. Plenty of fishing and hunting possibilities in Northern California.
A "Big Dog" for my little friend Callie...
All about the time these fellows weren't known as The Grateful Dead...but had a "Jug Band". Or were transitioning into their new form. A few years later, 1967 (The summer of Love...) my dad drove us out to Haight Ashbury to see the "Hippies". We drove right by the "Dead" house...(owned by Robert Crumb's mother by the way...). What a fun day that was. Never forget the look on my mother's face as a Hairy Hippie came up to her window and tried to sell her a Berkeley Barb newspaper...
The sculpture pics are from this blog... <-----CLICK over there.
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And now back to 2012 and the new Sculpture, to be continued in PART TWO....
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There was a house on a back street near my apartment in Tucson that a 15-20 foot T-Rex made on metal in the front yard. Wish I had a picture of that as it was pretty cool looking back in the 80s...probably an eyesore now.
ReplyDeleteBeing made of metal, it might still be around. Sometimes those things improve with age,or maybe the neighbors are hoping it will eventually rust away. Seems like a lot of southwestern states have sculptures of various animals here and there. I like that kind of stuff. Thinking of your seat repair...a guy I worked with as a motorcycle mechanic years ago...also worked at his fathers auto body shop. They would sculpt leftover "Bondo" into statues of dogs. They called them "Bondo-dogs", sounds like a name of a punk-rock band.
ReplyDeleteReally like what is termed 'found art' or 'junk art', (although I prefer the French term 'art trouvé'), where sculptors make object from everyday things. Shows a lot of imagination to visualise how unconnected parts can come together to create something new.
ReplyDeleteAs for the Grateful Dead, they are one of those bands I just didn't 'get'. Remember they used to have the most exotic stage sound system of anyone at the time.
Bands like the Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna, Santana, and so many others from the west coast of US are still my favorites...Creedance Clearwater Revival (once known as the "Golliwogs").They all played local small venues at first.I was in High School at the time. The Dead did have an amazing sound system. Pink Floyd and the Dead had the "cleanest" loud sound systems...too many other bands were too distorted. Remember a bunch of us walking out of a Leon Russell concert, after the first set. The sound was terrible and was actually painfully distorted. Thankfully the opening bands were good. Saw the Ramones, another painful sound experience. At least Jimi Hendrix would warn people they might want ear plugs! Before his death Jerry Garcia had returned to his acoustic roots, and did a lot of neat stuff with David Grisman I like a lot. Your right that this sculpture(Big People) tells a story. I prefer art that doesn't need an "Art critic" to tell you what it means.
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