“The only truth is music.”
―
Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
Music Used to Come Out of Those Things
Tag Archives: Texas
The Lost Glory of Mammoth-Hunting Expeditions
“He’s a man,” Themla said.
“I guess that explains it.”
“Hairy, Neanderthalic,” Thelma said, “perpetually half-crazed from excessive levels of testosterone, plagued by racial memories of the lost glory of mammoth-hunting expeditions – they’re all alike.”
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Fair Park, Dallas, Texas
Twiggy Boop
Being young isn’t about age, it’s about being a free spirit. You can meet someone of 20 who’s boring and old, or you can meet someone of 70 who’s youthful and exciting. I met Fred Astaire when he was 72 and I was 21, and I fell in love with him. He certainly was a free spirit.
Mural by Preston Pannek, Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
Preston Pannek
Whatever Passes Through My Head
“I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.”
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Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
Like a Thought Trying to Form Itself
“Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form itself on the edge of consciousness.”
― The Big Sleep
Fog in front of my house, Richardson, Texas
A Funeral Procession of the Dead
“What you see on the freeway is just what there is,
a funeral procession of the dead,
the greatest horror of our time in motion.
I’ll see you there tomorrow!”
― Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way
High Five Interchange, Dallas, Texas
Earthly and Mechanical Paraphernalia
“She glided away towards the lift, which seemed hardly needed, with its earthly and mechanical paraphernalia, to bear her up to the higher levels.”
― A Dance to the Music of Time: 3rd Movement
Sculpture being installed at the Meadows Building, Dallas, Texas
Dallas is the worst city there is as far as preserving its history, art works, and interesting architecture (such as it is). There has been a struggle over the redevelopment of the uber-cool Meadows Building. They were going to raze a historic wing just to create room to run a driveway through.
There used to be a sculpture between the building and the Lover’s Lane DART station – Birth II by Arthur Williams.
Birth II, Arthur Williams, Dallas, Texas
All of a sudden, during the construction, it disappeared. I seem to be the only person interested in the sculpture – there is no record of where it went that I can find. I certainly hope they didn’t scrap it.
The other day, I rode my bike around the construction site as best as I could trying to see if they simply moved it somewhere obscure. I couldn’t find it – but they were putting in a new giant three part sculpture nearby.
It looked cool, but not anywhere as cool as the old Birth II.
Birth II, by Arthur Williams, Dallas, Texas
Perforation!
“Perforation! Shout it out! The deliberate punctuated weakening of paper and cardboard so that it will tear along an intended path, leaving a row of fine-haired pills or tuftlets on each new edge! It is a staggering conception, showing an age-transforming feel for the unique properties of pulped wood fiber.”
― The Mezzanine
Perforations in the roof of the Pavilion in Pacific Plaza Park, downtown Dallas, Texas
The centerpiece of the new Pacific Plaza park in downtown Dallas is the Pavilion. Designed by HKS it is an elliptical metal ring suspended in the air – giving much needed shade. I wondered what the story behind all the holes was.
From a D Magazine article:
The design team punctured 58,290 holes in the pavilion canopy, a subtle, morse code tip of the cap denoting the names of 337 stops along the Texas and Pacific Railroad.
Pacific Plaza Park, Dallas, Texas
Congealed in the Dark Arteries
“Here, are the stiffening hills, here, the rich cargo
Congealed in the dark arteries,
Old veins
That hold Glamorgan’s blood.
The midnight miner in the secret seams,
Limb, life, and bread.
– Rhondda Valley”
― Collected Poems
Downtown Dallas, Texas
The Dude Abides
“Careful man, there’s a beverage here!” — The Dude
Artwork in the Braindead Brewing Company, Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
Bill Chance 