If you’re in the middle of the ocean with no flippers and no life preserver and you hear a helicopter, this is music. You have to adjust to your needs at the moment.
—- Tom Waits
Rotor on a Bell UH-1 Huey on temporary display, University of Texas at Dallas,
Richardson, Texas
Helicopter courtesy of Cavanaugh Flight Museum
“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn”
― Orson Welles
Cedars Open Studios
1805 Clarence Street
Dallas, Texas
i can sense it
something important
is about to happen
it’s coming upit takes courage to enjoy it
the hardcore and the gentle
big time sensuality
—-Bjork, Big Time Sensuality
Cedars Open Studios
1805 Clarence Street
Dallas, Texas
“You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
Fall Colors
University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, Texas
(click to enlarge)
Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
—-Grace Jones
Cedars Open Studios
1805 Clarence Street
Dallas, Texas
“Cherie, keep walking. Shut your eyes. We are headed for the bridge. We are going to cross it.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away
Keeper of the Plains,
Wichita, Kansas
“Harvey wasn’t interested in the clothes, it was the masks that mesmerized him. They were like snowflakes: no two alike. Some were made of wood and of plastic; some of straw and cloth and papier-mâché. Some were as bright as parrots, others as pale as parchment. Some were so grotesque he was certain they’d been carved by crazy people; others so perfect they looked like the death masks of angels. There were masks of clowns and foxes, masks like skulls decorated with real teeth, and one with carved flames instead of hair.”
― Clive Barker, The Thief of Always
Dallas Museum of Art
Dallas, Texas
“Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame.”
― W.B. Yeats, The Land of Heart’s Desire
Wind Turbines
Blackwell, Oklahoma
(click to enlarge)
“I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer
I wonder what this guy is thinking. He’s been in that glass box a long time.
Dallas Museum of Art
Dallas, Texas
“Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun’s melting rays. Dreams and a restlessness of the soul came to him.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
The city has made incredible strides since Katrina. However, New Orleans is still full of abandoned, vacant, and decaying properties. One of these is the old River of Life Hospital, on Jackson, across the street from the condominiums with the New Orleans Gargoyle Sculpture.
I didn’t venture inside – though it looks like there is some art there.
This place isn’t a hurricane victim, however. It’s been vacant since 1979. Hopefully, someone will find a use for it soon.
River of Life Hospital
New Orleans, Louisiana
Bill Chance 