Interesting aesthetics

Last weekend DH Jeff & I went with a friend (and a puppy!) to her mountain place for a relaxing weekend. On her property was a deer carcass in the late stages of decomp - so of course we had to take pictures. I printed a shot of the deer head, then inverted the colors to make a "negative" image. Then framed them. Weird and spooky - and very cool. Jeff says he wants me to frame a set for his office to properly set the tone. Heh. Here, let's see if I can upload them:



Inverted:



Cool, huh?

Progress of demolition

The downtown corner demolition proceeded very efficiently and amazingly neatly. I just had to mark their progress. Evidently, they imploded the building from the outside-in, in stages, so at one point there was this bizarre tower with all sorts of metal and wire hanging out. It looked like some sort of prop from a dystopic future. Anyhoo, here are some pictures...

Eating away at the corner.


Spooky tower.


Extreme close-up spooky tower.


After Armageddon.


And...it's a pile of rubble.


I'm sure you feel edified seeing the very neat demise of a building. Thank you for your cooperation.

Panda Vandalism

For those of you who don't live in the DC area, we currently have this street art thing - brightly colored, themed sculptures of pandas all over the city. It follows a theme 2 years ago in which the sculptures were elephants and donkeys ("Party Animals," get it?). I personally love it; it's something whimsical & fun in a city that takes itself far too seriously.

Today in the Post, though, was an article about damage done to some of these sculptures - stolen parts, graffiti & the like. Keep in mind that individual artists created each piece - that it took time, effort & creativity to create them. The article shows a picture of one of the artists whose piece was vandalized - she looks so forlorn. I feel so bad for her and the others affected. It really shows what kind of asshats (thank you, Rachel Lucas!) we have in this city - they can't just appreciate this fun thing and go about their business, they have to destroy, deface and ruin it for others. Oh, and not mentioned in the article is that the graffiti (I observed) appeared to be in Arabic. Hmmm.

But here's the flip side - I observed a girl (young lady, woman, whatever) "examining" a sparkly panda on Conn. Ave. with the most amused smile on her face. Yeah, she gets it.

Here's the full article in case you're interested.