Mural Mondays
Rice Field Follow Up
I’ve written about the artistic rice paddy fields in Japan before but this video explains the creative and engineering process of getting the images to sprout in the rice fields. What an innovative idea that not only brings this village community together by involving them in the process but brings tourism to their town. Rice Paddy Art. Watch more top selected videos about: The Early Show (video disabled by CBS) This is even more interesting to me now that my son Jackson has returned from Sewanee’s summer school and it’s official, he will be attending The University of the South in the fall. (I know, it’s kinda late in the…
Digital Mural Restoration
I found this mention of the conservation of these Renaissance murals at the Brömserhof Museum in Ruedesheim, Germany, just fascinating. It seems such a practical idea to use the scanning of original photos of these murals with some Photoshop or Illustrator technology (looks like) to enable the necessary steps to replication and repair. Kudos! It makes perfect sense to use digital technology for mural restoration. What a fabulous restoration project to be working on… Another inspirational mural mention that I discovered this week, is Corinne Ulman’s golden leaf mural, on the Griffin Court Condominium, at 800 10th Avenue on the corner of West 53rd Street, Manhattan. It is just gorgeous.…
Asking Price
Can murals increase the chance that you might receive the asking price sale on your expensive condo? Maybe so — at least for Rush Limbaugh. He bought his apartment for $5 million in 1994 and he received just below the asking price recently on his $12.95 million dollar Fifth Avenue, NYC condo. He had put it up for sale in February for $13.95 million and then lowered the price to $12.95. The contract was said to have been for $11 million but there will also be heavy closing and transfer taxes involved for both NYC and NY state. Limbaugh has moved to Florida to escape the high NY taxes. Florida…
