Welcome to the Deep Ellum Art Park

Posted on July 31, 2013 by Bill Chance

Dallas, Texas

Wink

Have a drink.

It’s Texas… you never know who’s packin’

Wow

Posted on July 26, 2013 by Bill Chance

Art Park
Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas

People understand me so little that they do not even understand when I complain of being misunderstood.
—Søren Kierkegaard

Someone else was taking photos at the same time I was.

Ramp 40

Posted on July 24, 2013 by Bill Chance

Graffiti

Art Park
Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas

Ramp 40 – Deep Ellum Art Park, Dallas, Texas

No more speed, I’m almost there
Gotta keep cool now, gotta take care
Last car to pass, here I go
And the line of cars goes down real slow

And the radio played that forgotten song
Brenda Lee’s “Coming On Strong”
And the newsman sang his same song
Oh, one more radar lover gone

—-Radar Love, Golden Earring

I Am Deep Ellum

Posted on July 23, 2013 by Bill Chance

Graffiti

Art Park
Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas

If you go down to Deep Elem
Just to have a little fun,
You’d better have your fifteen dollars
When the policeman come.

Oh, sweet mama, daddy’s got the Deep Elem Blues.

If you go down to Deep Elem,
Keep your money in your shoes;
The women in Deep Elem
Got those Deep Elem blues.

If you go down to Deep Elem,
Take your money in your pants;
The women in Deep Elem
Never give the men a chance.

Now I once knew a preacher,
Preached the Bible through and through,
He went down into Deep Elem,
Now his preaching days are through.

Now I once had a sweet gal,
Lord, she meant the world to me;
She went down into Deep Elem;
She ain’t what she used to be.

Her papa’s a policeman
And her mama walks the street;
Her papa met her mama
When they both were on the beat.

—-Deep Elem (Ellum) Blues – Trad.

Elm St Right Lane

Posted on July 21, 2013 by Bill Chance

Graffiti
Clint Schism
Art Park
Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas

Clint Schism
Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas

Christmas Lights, Barbed Wire, and Paint

Posted on July 8, 2013 by Bill Chance

Near Lee Harvey’s, Cedars, Dallas, Texas

“Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.”
—-Ronald Reagan

“All anyone really needs to know about barbed wire is that it can tear the arse out of your trousers, give a cow a good fright, entangle a Yorkshire terrier for life, and is nasty stuff made by greedy men.”
― Billy Connolly

Flying Over the City

Posted on July 5, 2013 by Bill Chance

Graffiti, Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas

“The Guide says there is an art to flying”, said Ford, “or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

“When we started the show, ‘Dallas’ was known as the city where JFK was assassinated. By the end it was known as JR’s home town.”
—-Larry Hagman

“But there is so much more to do for the city we love… a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination.”
—-Laura Miller

Ride That Spray Can

Posted on July 3, 2013 by Bill Chance

“I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.”
― Banksy

Graffiti, Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas

“Imagine a city where graffiti wasn’t illegal, a city where everybody could draw whatever they liked. Where every street was awash with a million colours and little phrases. Where standing at a bus stop was never boring. A city that felt like a party where everyone was invited, not just the estate agents and barons of big business. Imagine a city like that and stop leaning against the wall – it’s wet.”
― Banksy

“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