I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.
—-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Charles Umlauf
Spirit of Flight
Love Field
Dallas, Texas
The Tyranny Of Petty Things
Tag Archives: Dallas
There’s Only One Kind Of Dance
There’s only one kind of dance, the robot
And the robo-boogey
Oh and the ro, two kind of dances
But there are no more humans
Finally robotic beings rule the world
—-Flight of the Conchords, Robots
The Travelling Man (two versions)
Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
Moore and Serra
Now I really make the little idea from clay, and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it, look at it from underneath, see it from one view, hold it against the sky, imagine it any size I like, and really be in control, almost like God creating something.
—-Henry Moore
Working Model for Three Piece No. 3: Vertebrae, Henry Moore
My Curves are not Mad, Richard Serra
Nasher Sculpture Center
And certainly the history of public sculpture has been disastrous but that doesn’t mean it ought not to continue and the only way it even has a chance to continue is if the work gets out into the public.
—-Richard Serra
Angel Trumpets And Devil Trombones
“Come with uncle,” I said, “and hear all proper. Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones. You are invited.”
—A Clockwork Orange
Dragon Park,
Dallas, Texas
Even When You’re Not By My Side
“I’ve learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you’re with me, even when you’re not by my side.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
Dragon Park, Dallas, Texas
We Should Meet In Air
“We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.”
― Sylvia Plath
A Cute Couple on a Tandem
Deep Ellum
Dallas, Texas
What Rhythm Is
“Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it …”
― Virginia Woolf
Klyde Warren Park
Dallas, Texsas
Having A Picnic In A Dream
“I’ll affect you slowly
as if you were having a picnic in a dream.
There will be no ants.
It won’t rain.”
― Richard Brautigan, Loading Mercury With a Pitchfork
Klyde Warren Park,
Dallas, Texas
There Is No End To Illusion
“Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . . ”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Klyde Warren Park,
Dallas, Texas
They Stay Up Late But They Get Up Late
“There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That is delaying the day. Night life is when you get up with a hangover in the morning. Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill. Night life goes round and round and you look at the wall to make it stop. Night life comes out of a bottle and goes into a jar. If you think how much are the drinks it is not night life.”
― Ernest Hemingway, 88 Poems
If you read these pages, you know that I have an interest in murals – specifically those works of wall art around the city where I live. Especially if they are reachable by bicycle.
A while back I came across an article listing the 10 Best Murals in Dallas. I had seen all of these and photographed most of them.
But I had never shot the tacky mural on the side of the San Luis Nightclub… though I had seen it. It looked like this. Amazingly sleazy – really good stuff.
Now I’m too late. It’s been painted over.
But they have put up a replacement. It’s not as sordid as its predecessor – but it’s bad enough.
Plus, instead of reclining on a pool table – she’s riding a giant beer bottle. That has to count for something.
Design District
Dallas, Texas
San Luis Night Club
Design District
Dallas, Texas
Bill Chance 