I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.—-Tom Waits
Flora Street, Dallas, Texas
I Want Things I Can’t Have
Tag Archives: Dallas
Giant Cherry Bomb
“Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus; and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs, and peep about
To find ourselves dishonourable graves.”
― Julius Caesar
My Giant cargo/commuter/ex-mountain bike and Cherry Bomb, sculpture, by Nic Noblique, Uptown, Dallas, Texas
Art: Cherry Bomb
A Rational Fear Of Birds
“You’ll think this is a bit silly, but I’m a bit–well, I have a thing about birds.”
“What, a phobia?”
“Sort of.”
“Well, that’s the common term for an irrational fear of birds.”
“What do they call a rational fear of birds, then?”
― Anansi Boys
Spirit of Flight (detail), Charles Umlauf, Love Field, Dallas, Texas
A Depth To Which Divers Would Find It Difficult To Descend
“There, at a depth to which divers would find it difficult to descend, are caverns, haunts, and dusky mazes, where monstrous creatures multiply and destroy each other. Huge crabs devour fish and are devoured in their turn. Hideous shapes of living things, not created to be seen by human eyes wander in this twilight. Vague forms of antennae, tentacles, fins, open jaws, scales, and claws, float about there, quivering, growing larger, or decomposing and perishing in the gloom, while horrible swarms of swimming things prowl about seeking their prey.
To gaze into the depths of the sea is, in the imagination, like beholding the vast unknown, and from its most terrible point of view. The submarine gulf is analogous to the realm of night and dreams. There also is sleep, unconsciousness, or at least apparent unconsciousness, of creation. There in the awful silence and darkness, the rude first forms of life, phantomlike, demoniacal, pursue their horrible instincts.”
― The Toilers of the Sea
Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
Afraid of the Light
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
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The Cedars, Dallas, Texas
Frequently There Must Be A Beverage
“Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: Frequently there must be a beverage.”
― Without Feathers
Mural (detail), Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
A Flower That Was In Bud Only Yesterday
“It’s so curious: one can resist tears and ‘behave’ very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer… and everything collapses. ”
―
Mural (detail), Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
Be A Duck
“Be a duck, remain calm on the surface and paddle like hell underneath.”
― Michael Caine
Bachman Lake, Dallas, Texas
A Bird’s Building Its Own Nest
“There is some of the same fitness in a man’s building his own house that there is in a bird’s building its own nest. Who knows but if men constructed their dwellings with their own hands, and provided food for themselves and families simply and honestly enough, the poetic faculty would be universally developed, as birds universally sing when they are so engaged? But alas! we do like cowbirds and cuckoos, which lay their eggs in nests which other birds have built, and cheer no traveler with their chattering and unmusical notes. Shall we forever resign the pleasure of construction to the carpenter?”
― Walden
Awakening, Part of the Traveling Man series of sculptures, Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
The Traveling Man Sculptures of Deep Ellum Celebrate Their 10th Anniversary
Travelling Man… and a jet, Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
Travelling Man – sculpture east of Downtown Dallas
Bike Riders under the Travelling Man
Travelling Man, Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
Tourists reflected in a metal bird. Travelling Man Sculpture, Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
The Travelling Man (two versions)
Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
In A Boy’s Skin
“Musically, he was like an old man in a boy’s skin.”
―
Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
Bill Chance 