Ace Hardware in River Forest is where my husband likes to go to get his hardware. It's a nice small store packed the rafters with goodies.
I like to go just to pull the door handle--it's a welded hammer. It's awesome.
October 29, 2006
Bonus Post: Ace hardware, River Forest, IL
Ace Hardware in River Forest is where my husband likes to go to get his hardware. It's a nice small store packed the rafters with goodies.I like to go just to pull the door handle--it's a welded hammer. It's awesome.
October 28, 2006
Cermak Plaza Continued, Berwyn, IL
Cars
on a
SPIKE!October 25, 2006
Cermak Plaza, Berwyn, IL
The Cermak Plaza is located on the corner of Cermak and Harlem in Berwyn, Ill. It's just outside Chicago and it feels me with immeasurable joy! The owner of the plaza is a fan of modern art and public art. His bizarre retro plaza is a testament to both of his passions!
This is a beautiful mirrored mosaic called "The Embrace" by Gina Gilmore!
From the back, the light from the store signage reflects off of the mirrors.
A truly unusual windmill? It's a series of cones--with colors painted inside of them--tilts in the wind and spins. Wish I had a movie of it. They're quite magical!
It's called Bee Tree by George Rhoads. I love it!The real roadside Americana element is up next--Cermak Plaza's cars on a spike!!
October 17, 2006
The Heidelberg Project in Detroit, MI
The Heidelberg Project is an unusual public art project in downtown Detroit. Originally opposed by the Detroit government, the artist Tyree Guyton's project has become a world renowned public art project. 
My husband took these pictures the day we were there. It's so worth the visit. To put it far too simply, Guyton has taken garbage and the remnants of a city on a long decline and created a spectacular community art project. When I was there the installations included a garden of brightly painted old vacuum cleaners, a field of repurposed and painted car hoods, brightly painted and dotted homes and something unique everywhere you look.
The single unifying theme--aside from repurposing everyday items long discarded--is that many pieces of art feature brightly colored dots. Interestingly, connecting the dots--from Heidelberg Street to dots painted on many abandoned downtown buildings--allows the visitor to ask what the unifying theme of Detroit itself is. And it often comes back to decay and the riots in the '60s.
Connecting the dots on a repurposed playground rocking horse. Check out the website to take a virtual tour of Heidelberg Street: http://www.heidelberg.org/
My husband took these pictures the day we were there. It's so worth the visit. To put it far too simply, Guyton has taken garbage and the remnants of a city on a long decline and created a spectacular community art project. When I was there the installations included a garden of brightly painted old vacuum cleaners, a field of repurposed and painted car hoods, brightly painted and dotted homes and something unique everywhere you look.
The single unifying theme--aside from repurposing everyday items long discarded--is that many pieces of art feature brightly colored dots. Interestingly, connecting the dots--from Heidelberg Street to dots painted on many abandoned downtown buildings--allows the visitor to ask what the unifying theme of Detroit itself is. And it often comes back to decay and the riots in the '60s.
Connecting the dots on a repurposed playground rocking horse. Check out the website to take a virtual tour of Heidelberg Street: http://www.heidelberg.org/
October 07, 2006
Muffler Man, Chicago
Time to represent the new hometown!
I spotted this very exciting and masculine Muffler Man on Grand in Chicago.
Apparently this monument to masculinity--he's bending iron, people!--has been in Chicago for years now, sitting atop his Auto Body Shop! He's rugged, he's sexy, he's man enough for us all! Meow!
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