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Mural Meals on Wheels
Seeing this notice, I just had to post after my last garbage truck, Trash to Treasure post. Philly is up to it again with their murals. Although, these are not nearly as substantial as the fabulous ones you see on buildings there, they are fun to look at on lunch meal trucks. They also help to get people’s attention, so a good marketing tactic. More pics and info about this Mural Arts Program can be found on the Meal Ticket post by Drew Lazor. This video is a little freaky to watch and it doesn’t have anything to do with mural lunch trucks, for which I had a hard time…
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Longest Mural in DC
Graffiti art usually isn’t my thing, but seeing this mural that is being painted in DC helped open my eyes to some real talent. Firstly, spray paint is a hard medium to control. I have used it for a bunch of my decorative painting projects. It takes skill to get this kind of refinement in some sections of this mural. Secondly, these artists are helping to revitalize a rather downtrodden area. Dan Zach describes the five artists Collective Vision in his article, Let’s Spray. The mural is along a formerly blank 500 foot stretch of retaining wall in the Edgewood area of DC, near Rhode Island Avenue. My husband used…
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Typewriter Art
Although this is making the email circuit, it’s one of the more ingenious and incredible things I’ve seen. All these images below were made with typewriter keys by the artist Paul Smith. Here’s the story as the way it was forwarded to me in an email from my mother, from my cousin’s husband. I’m not sure where it originated, but thanks for sending. Here is the artist’s website, where you can learn more about his work and his creative process: http://www.paulsmithfoundation.org/index.html Paul Smith, the man with extraordinary talent was born in Philadelphia on September 21, 1921 with severe cerebral palsy. Not only had Paul beaten the odds of a life…
