Nathan Trimm
Deep Ellum Art Park
Dallas, Texas
Nathan Trimm
Deep Ellum Art Park
Dallas, Texas
Nathan Trimm
Deep Ellum Art Park
Dallas, Texas
Artwork by Nathan Trimm
Deep Ellum Art Park
Dallas, Texas
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Tag Archives: Deep Ellum
Water Tower
Deep Ellum
Dallas, Texas
Water Tower Mural
Deep Ellum
Dallas, Texas
You could see the real water tower from the mural. It’s the little thing in the bottom right of the photo. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get the light – or the space to use a telephoto – so you can’t see both very well.
No matter, here’s the real thing, from a blog entry almost three years old.
An old water tower rises above Deep Ellum.
Clover Street
Clover Street, Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
This looks like a back alley somewhere, but it is actually a street – with a name and signs and everything. It is Clover Street, in Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas.
Although it is little known outside Dallas, Deep Ellum has a long and illustrious, often infamous, history. The rise and development of today’s music owes as much to Deep Ellum as it does to New Orleans, Chicago, California, or Nashville.
Riding my bicycle down Clover Street I see these old steel rails rise up for a couple blocks before disappearing back below the tarmac and concrete. What story do they tell? Was there a streetcar line running down a narrow lane? Or were the buildings factories and the rail line built to bring in raw materials and to haul out product?
That was probably it. Looking at Googlemaps, Clover starts at Trunk Avenue (a railroad name, of course), runs down and ends behind the Adams Hats Lofts. These are urban living spaces converted from an old hat company. But the building’s original use, built in 1914, was one of Henry Ford’s original assembly plants for the Model T.
So you can imagine trainloads of parts going down that line a hundred years ago, and completed automobiles rolling back out to all over everywhere. These would be any color you wanted… as long as it was black.
Spray Paint
Deep Ellum
Dallas, Texas
“Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss.”
― Banksy, Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall
Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
“If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”
― Vincent van Gogh
Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
When I was a twelve year old schoolboy I would sit at my little desk and press my fists into my eyes until the most wild and strange patterns would appear against the back of the closed lids. Then I would snap open my eyes. The drab world of the classroom was suddenly bright and life was worth living and the ghosts of the abstract shapes and designs would still be superimposed, for a brief second, over this shimmering simulacrum of reality. It is that moment that I have struggled to paint – every day for the rest of my life. At least.
—-Nestor Fudant, The Ninth Mad Impostor That Understands the Rogue
Sometimes I Do As I Am Told
Deep Ellum
Dallas, Texas
Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
Post No Bills
Deep Ellum
Dallas, Texas
Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
More Murals
Artists at work
More entries in the Tunnelvisions mural contest
Deep Ellum Arts Festival
Dallas, Texas
Deep Ellum Arts Festival, Dallas, Texas
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Deep Ellum Arts Festival, Dallas, Texas
Fox and the Bird
Fox and the Bird
Deep Ellum Arts Festival
Dallas, Texas
There is no better music than local music. There is no better local music than Oak Cliff music.
Fox and the Bird
Fox and the Bird
Fox and the Bird
Fox and the Bird
Giant Jenga
Deep Ellum Arts Festival
Dallas, Texas
Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
Lumbo
Lumbo:
Lumbo, by David Pound, twentyheads.com
One reason I always head down to the Deep Ellum Arts Festival as soon as I can after it opens (after work on Friday) every years is so that I can get a look at David Pound’s work before too many are sold.
David Pound, TwentyHeads.com, is a sculptor that makes little monster heads in wooden boxes. I have loved his work ever since I saw it a few years ago and I save up to buy something each year. This would be the fourth.
The First one I bought was Persuasion:
Persuation
Then Burrow:
Burrow
and last year, I bought Fracture Zone:
Fracture Zone
Two years ago, I had David make a commission of a pair of earrings for Candy for Mother’s Day that were modeled on our dog, Rusty.
Earrings I had David Pound make for Candy for Mother’s Day.
They do look like Rusty
As always, he had a large collection of cool little monster heads in boxes. As always, it was tough for me to choose. I think I gravitate to the simpler works – I seem to look for little guys that have interesting expressions on their faces. At any rate, after two visits (I looked for a bit, walked around, and came back to make up my mind) and some input from Candy, I chose Lumbo – a little unhappy looking purple guy with three orange eyes and some delicate bones (mouse bones?) sticking up out of his head.
Now he takes his place with his three buddies on a little shelf over our television (they share their spot with a couple Zulu Coconuts).
If you like David’s work (and who doesn’t) take a look at his website – twentyheads.com. To see more of his stuff, like his facebook page, his DeviantArt Page, or at Nashville’s Smallest Art Gallery.
This year was a good one for growing Monster Heads in little wooden boxes.
Hard to pick only one.
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I like the heads, I like the titles, and I like the images on the inside of the boxes.
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Bill Chance 