The Sweepers
Wang Shugang
Cast Iron (2012)
Crow Collection of Asian Art
Dallas, Texas
The Sweepers
Wang Shugang
Cast Iron (2012)
Crow Collection of Asian Art
The Sweepers
Wang Shugang
Cast Iron (2012)
Crow Collection of Asian Art
The Sweepers
Wang Shugang
Cast Iron (2012)
Crow Collection of Asian Art
Banjo Player, Farmer’s Market, Dallas, Texas
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I seem to always be taking pictures of banjo players.
John Pedigo of the O’s. From a photograph taken at a beer festival, Fair Park, Dallas, Texas.
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and there is my favorite – the banjo playing woman singing on Royal Street in the French Quarter, in New Orleans
Banjo Player on Royal Street in the French Quarter, New Orleans
Banjo Player on Royal Street, French Quarter, New Orleans
Deep Ellum Art Park
Dallas, Texas
Mural in Deep Ellum Art Park, Dallas, Texas
Elotes, Farmer’s Market, Dallas, Texas
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I’ver written about elotes before. I don’t eat them very often – they must be about the most unhealthy thing in the world. They start with corn… which isn’t all that great – but then they add every thing that tastes good but is bad for you.
Then I get to add a bunch of hot sauce.
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
Mural by Faile, Exposition Park area, Dallas, Texas
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The mural was decorated by non-hazardous waste drums.
As I was setting up the route for the Stop and Photograph the Roses bike ride I made a point to have the ride go by a couple of murals in the no-man’s land of Exposition Park between Fair Park, Deep Ellum, and the Farmer’s Market. One was a Marilyn Monroe by Frank Campagna and the other was a work by a pair of Brooklyn artists that go by the name Faile.
I had seen their mural work in Trinity Groves last year on the Dallas Contemporary bike ride. They had been commissioned to do this one on the other side of the city.
It’s interesting because it is a completely different style and feel from what I had seen before. This is a very realistic scene of a cowgirl and her pony taking a nap. I really like it.
Someone on the ride pointed out that the woman’s mask is sitting on the ground beside her horse.
FAILE mural at Trinity Groves.
FAILE uses the year 1986 in their work – the year of the Challenger Disaster.
A while back I went on a fun, educational, and very cool bike ride that explored some murals in the Design District and West Dallas that had been commissioned by the Dallas Contemporary gallery. At the time, they had a new project going, Inside Out – The People’s Art Project, where they set up a series of photo booths and had people come by to get their photo done. These were then printed bigger than life size and put up at various locations around the city.
I wanted to participate in it, but never was able to put it together – when I could get down to a booth and get my photo shot. I should have tried harder, but time slips.
Anyway, last weekend, on our Stop and Photograph the Roses bike ride, we ran across one of the Inside Out installations. It’s been up a while and it getting long in the tooth, the paper tearing and falling off the wall, the photos fading, time is taking its toll.
Somehow, I liked it even better that way.
Amanda Popken of Dallas Cycle Style
Chris Curnutt of Biking in Dallas
Photo taken during the Stop and Photograph the Roses bicycle ride.
I had seen the Dallas Eye Before – but have never been able to stop close by it in the daytime. We rode our bikes from the Arts District down to the little side-street Stone Place – a little known oasis in downtown. A long time favorite spot of mine – I remember it from when I first moved here. It, like everything else, has been up and down many times since then.
Unfortunately, we could not cross the iron fence that surrounds the orb. I guess they are afraid that if the uncontrolled public were allowed in, the unwashed masses, things might get out of control and someone might get poked in the eye.
The Dallas Eye,
Dallas, Texas
Photo taken during the Stop and Photograph the Roses bicycle ride.
Magnolia Hotel Building (Pegasus) and Joule Hotel (pool)
Dallas, Texas
Magnolia Hotel (Pegasus) and Joule Hotel (pool)
Dallas, Texas
A while back, Chris of Biking in Dallas contacted me to help set up a bicycle ride. He and Amanda of Dallas Cycle Style had the idea of a slow bike ride dedicated to photography.
The idea is that on so many bike rides you see something that you want to stop and look at – or take a photograph of – but the ride goes on. We wanted to do a ride that was purposefully slow, more or less dedicated to photography, and that would go and stop whenever the fancy took us. The ride was called Stop and Photograph the Roses.
I took on the task of designing the route. We wanted to start in the Dallas Arts District, visit downtown and some photogenic spots in the area. My first routes were too long with too many stops. Thinking about it, there were simply too many places that I thought people would want to see and take pictures of.
So I whittled it down. And whittled it down some more. And finally took a last couple out. Out were Klyde Warren Park, the original Belo Park, the Bowler Hat and the rest of the Cedars….
What was left was a route that started at One Main Place, went through the Arts District, then on to the new Belo Garden Park by way of the Dallas Eye. Then Commerce Street to The Farmer’s Market – with a stop there for rest and lunch. Finally, a short ride past some favorite murals of mine to Fair Park and then a return through Deep Ellum.
We had a surprisingly good turnout – maybe thirty folks. As the day went along, it began to get hot and we lost some folks along the route – there is so much going on this time of year, but more than a handful stuck it out the whole way.
I think everyone had a good time. It will be cool to see the photos that everybody else took as they filter across the internet. The one disadvantage of planning the route is that I was familiar with almost everything along the way – and already have taken (and placed on this blog) shots of most of what we saw.
Still, that let me enjoy the ride more than the photography – and I still collected enough for a few blog entries to fill in some upcoming days.
And now I think of the places we didn’t go. Maybe we can do another….
Cyclists arriving at Belo Garden Park.
Amanda, Chris, and I
There is a cool little hill in Belo Garden Park
Stopping to look at a mural along Hickory Street. This is a part of the city most folks don’t visit.
Bikes along Leonhardt Lagoon in Fair Park.
A Facebook Video from Andrew Pearson – an interview with Chris Curnutt on how the ride came about.
Bill Chance 