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Art

Last night, amidst the sprinkles of rain and the sound of distant  thunder, we ventured out to grab a bite at a local Italian restaurant before walking down Main for Art Night.
In Memphis, the last Friday of every month is Art night. Local artists show their work in hopes of someone appreciating and buying. We stopped by our friend and neighbor's gallery to visit and escape the rain.
John Robinette does incredible work that's inspired by the Mississippi Delta and it's authentically rusted existence therein... example below:

George Hunt was next door at the D'Edge Gallery. George is also influenced by the Delta, it's sounds, and sights. Maybe mix in some Pacasso meets Voodoo Village.



So over coffee, on this rainy morning, I started googling around and found more interesting artist that I'd like to share. I love the internet on rainy days.

Miss Van is back and hanging in Sao Paulo.

Bandwidth alert... unless you enjoy urban art, just don't



A more conservative approach to urban art.

And this is worth a clik too...

Photographer's Girlfriend Leads Him Around the World

 

Cheers,

Istaboa

Today's Pic

Sings the blues

Happy Weekend

Crowds

Hmm... what to wear today? 

Maybe the black suit with a bowler hat

Or, let's live on the edge, maybe an Irish county hat?

We could all be John Malkovich.

A crowd of individuals?

 Then the throwing of colors breaks out and they all become a single huge multi-colored mass.

This could be fun.

So why all this about crowds?

A friend gave us tickets to the Music Fest and...

Well...

 

 Guess we keep thinking about Walmart and Black Friday.

And, this crowd will be drinking beer all day.

Getting old is a convenient excuse.

"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded"
Yogi Berra

  Quotes about crowds

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"The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has"

Ashley-Pitt, Alan on crowds
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Istboa

  Quotes about crowds

These are quotes tagged with "crowds". You can also search for quotes containing the word crowds.

"The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has"

Ashley-Pitt, Alan on crowds
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"The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has"

Ashley-Pitt, Alan on crowds
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  Quotes about crowds

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"The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has"

Ashley-Pitt, Alan on crowds
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Today's Pic

The way to start the day... OJ Screamer!

Happy Weekend Everybody

Cheers,

Istaboa

A Multimodal Day

Today's Pic

No, it's not Photoshopped.

 

Nice pic, though... Impressionist, huh?

Chao Hu is one of the five largest freshwater lakes in China. Heavy use of the lake in recent years has led to eutrophication and silting. Due to China’s rapid economic growth, the lake is now one of China’s most polluted lakes.
Picture by Jianan Yu / REUTERS

Interesting App

Marine Traffic is a fun little app when you're in an Automatic Identification System (AIS) marine navigable area.

About 50 miles north of Memphis, around Osceola, Arkansas, is the Bruce R. Birmingham. A tow boat, not a tug.

All things AIS that are near me:

Ole Joe is sitting just a couple of miles south of us in Ensley Bottoms, which is a pretty rough old port area that was used for years by the Corps of Engineers.
My Pop tied up there many times.

The Martha Ingram is slowly heading northbound around my hometown of Helena, Ark.
The river is high and the current's pretty strong... she's a top notch tow boat and only pushing 4 knots. In the top picture you can see the southbound Bruce R. Birmingham is doing 10 knots. The river is on the rise and the current will only get stronger. Don't envy any of these captains, no matter which direction they're headed.
Upstream's a very slow slog and downstream can quickly become uncontrollable.

Looking at St. Louis which has a lot more AIS traffic than Memphis, I see the Melinda Brent that was once owned by a friend of ours. Brent Towing, out of Greenville, MS, sold it to a company from Houston. All that information is in this app...

Kinda fun on a quiet night at home.

Cheers,

Istaboa

Coffee Thought -

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”






April 16, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr: Letter from a Birmingham Jail