Michael,
Boulder is an amazing town to bike through or walk through. There are spectacular bronze/steel/brass statues, busts, and plaques all over town. There may be more per sq km here than even D.C. I’m not sure. Attached is a jalbum of 13 that I’ve collected in the last couple of days. The Mrs sez there are at least a dozen more that I’ve missed, and I will try to collect them in the coming days. Alas, my pictures don’t do justice to the real thing. The lighting wasn’t right, the backgrounds interfere, my camera and brain aren’t up to the job….So consider this a work in progress.
rakkity
PS: Next on my list of partially finished projects is “Boulder’s Bumper Stickers,” and then comes “Boulder’s Curious Business Names.” Stay tuned.
michael
I spent some time tracking down my most-liked, George Lundeen’s “Hearts on a Swing,” and I found her in a pewter desk-top version for under $500.00. I also found another guy’s bronzes (not nearly as good as yours), but which illustrated the size of the frog and Mr. Porcupine. Is that really the same critter?
el Kib
Thanks, Rakk, for the thorough tour, and Michael for adding scale to the scaleless — big beaver … ! For a city to so liberally dsitribute art (this being but one medium, I’ll bet there’s more) shows great heart. ‘Course, this is by and large literal figuralism, which some would question as “art”, but a couple of these pieces are inarguably inspired.
michael
You could and they do say the same thing about photography.
el Kib
But “photography” is a general term — here we have specifics. Some photography is art, some merely artful, some not even that. Though I sense a sticky substance on the soles of my metaphysical feet that presage a tarpit of subjectivity …
michael
Speaking of subjective, what are you bringing tonight?
adam
You mean, besides myself … ? Dunno yet.
And Rakk, should the image catalog represent a process of personal selectivity (rather than the comprehensive and opportunistically impersonal), take no offense at el Kib’s “art” blather — my alter ego was merely remarking on the fairly consistent literalness, aimed (arguably)pretty exclusively at the heart, not the head.
jennifer
I’m looking forward to BBS and BCBN. But I’m also wondering if someone (maybe a semi-retired astronomer, or an internet-addicted blogmeister?) would collect photos of sundials and pass the collection on to me.
michael
I can give you Diane’s uncle’s telephone number. He knows all there is to know about sundials.
jennifer
I guess I was hoping for the top 30, not 29.7 THOUSAND. But images IS more what I want than phone numbers.
anon
On the other hand, Jennifer, my Uncle Bill, 94, is one of the more fascinating people you might ever talk to, about sundials or anything else. And he would love your call. He’s the guy Michael interviewed about his conversation with Einstein. He’s married to my Aunt Rose, my father’s eldest sister, aged 95, also very sharp and wonderful, who began painting at maybe 80 and has sold many of her watercolors. We call her Grandma Roses when referring to her art.
jennifer
Oh, THAT uncle! I would love to talk with him, but I think not on the phone. In NJ, is he?