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Philadelphia and Murals 1
Part of our Christmas family gift was to take a trip to Philadelphia to see The Barnes Collection. While there I had hoped to take a tour of Philly’s incredible murals. I have been saving so many links regarding Philadelphia’s murals that this now seems the time to post them in reference to this trip. Although we didn’t see as many of the murals as I wanted to see, we covered about eight, right around our spectacular Hyatt hotel on Broad Street during a night walking tour after a late arrival and a delicious meal at XIX (Nineteen Restaurant), on the 19th floor with an incredible view overlooking the city.…
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Combat Art
Thinking this fitting of Veteran’s Day, I found two recent mentions to describe the art of war as combat art. This mural was painted by “The detainees [near the province of Umm Qasr in Iraq] painted all of the murals in the compounds and a significant majority of the murals outside,” said Lt. Col. Kenneth King, commander of the 306th Military Police Battalion. Sgt. Rob Bingham, “D” Company, 132nd Brigade Support Battalion, sits in front of his favorite piece at the Theatre Interment Facility at Camp Bucca [before the facility is dismantled]. Another inspiration was this article about Sgt. Kristopher Battles (no pun in his name intended but very coincidental),…
Examples of Exotic
Normally I find music to go along with my posts for the end of the week. This time, I re-discovered the music before the artwork through my son’s Facebook thread, who knew….. I just ran across this song, Kiss Them for Me by Siouxi and the Banshees. I loved in the 80’s and that still hasn’t changed. I forgot what a fun song this was, especially to Kick Start the weekend. Now for the artwork, again, just happened to see this Ford ad. Grabs your attention right?! And it happens to be the perfect lips for Kiss them for me. What I also like about it is the use of…
