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01 Oct 07 - 01:12 PM (#2161263) Subject: BS: Town Murals From: Ebbie A friend sent me a link to a multi-faceted mosaic mural in Cochrane, Alberta, Canada. It is huge and has many panels done by different artists. You click on one panel and it turns out to belong to a different painting, for instance, when you click on a horse nostril it turns out to be the curve of a different horse's neck. Peace, where is Cochrane in relation to Hinton? Have you ever seen the mural? See Here Does your town have an unusual wall? In Juneau, Alaska, there are several buildings that depict wildlife scenes. A bakery has humpback whales, a school has an eagle, etc. |
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01 Oct 07 - 01:22 PM (#2161272) Subject: RE: BS: Town Murals From: Emma B That's amazing Ebbie - I loved the horses eye too. You really wouldn't want to see the often violent sectarian ones still dominating parts of Belfast! |
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01 Oct 07 - 01:29 PM (#2161276) Subject: RE: BS: Town Murals From: Mooh That's great, thanks! Duly forwarded to the Albertans in the family. Peace, Mooh. |
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01 Oct 07 - 01:29 PM (#2161278) Subject: RE: BS: Town Murals From: Georgiansilver Fascinating andI personally like the following art sites which are also quite amazing...such talent...... http://users.skynet.be/J.Beever/pave.htm http://www.kurtwenner.com/streetportfolio.htm Best wishes, Mike. |
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01 Oct 07 - 01:40 PM (#2161281) Subject: RE: BS: Town Murals From: Ebbie Oh, I love pavement art! And you are right, they too are murals, fleeting though they be. |
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01 Oct 07 - 07:00 PM (#2161467) Subject: RE: BS: Town Murals From: Bobert Murals are part of Luray, Virginia's "brand"... We have 13 of them presently... One of them graces a building that I own, which is the old Ford dealership in the middle of town... No, it is no longer the Frod dealership but when I bought the building there were 3 garage doors in thr shop that had been closed up with block so I thought they would make for perfect murals and got some grants and they were completed about 56 months ago by a local artist, Jeenifer Brandt... Of course they are all automotive in nature... B~ |
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01 Oct 07 - 07:21 PM (#2161478) Subject: RE: BS: Town Murals From: John O'L In just went around the rim of the hat. That is very very clever. And yes the horse's eye is too |
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01 Oct 07 - 09:30 PM (#2161549) Subject: RE: BS: Town Murals From: Bee Nice art. halifax has quite a few murals, as does Truro, a town in the middle of the province. They also have a lot of large wood sculptures - when the elm trees succumbed to Dutch elm, they cut them about 12 feet up and left them in the ground to be sculpted. |
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01 Oct 07 - 10:35 PM (#2161582) Subject: RE: BS: Town Murals From: open mike pictures, Bobert? here are the local Oroville, CA murals near by in chico there are some too.. http://www.101thingstodo.net/chico/55.html |
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01 Oct 07 - 10:59 PM (#2161595) Subject: RE: BS: Town Murals From: mg We have a lot of them...stagecoaches on the beach, a very realistic cranberry picking one...lumber workers...lots around here. mg |
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01 Oct 07 - 11:03 PM (#2161599) Subject: RE: BS: Town Murals From: katlaughing There are some wonderful murals in the little town of Delta, just down the road from us: click. That guy took some wonderful photos of all over western Colorado. Worth a look through everything he posted, imo. Sorry, I didn't realise he only had one mural on there. |
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02 Oct 07 - 01:13 AM (#2161631) Subject: RE: BS: Town Murals From: Jim Dixon The former Edison Brothers warehouse in St. Louis, MO (It is now a hotel and condominiums.) is covered with trompe l'oeil painting. These are the only photographs I could find; unfortunately, they are too small to do it justice. This building has NO real 3-dimensional decoration--it is all paint on a flat surface. Most of the "windows" you see are fake, too. http://www.hotel-rates.com/us/missouri/saint-louis/sheraton-st-louis-city-center-hotel-and-suites.html http://www.stlouislofts.com/400south14th.html http://www.rgbrinkmann.com/projects/project-display.php?id=33 Here's a better photo of another project by the same artist, Richard Haas, in Cincinnati, OH. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Cincinnati-cincinnatus-mural.jpg |
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02 Oct 07 - 01:17 PM (#2162103) Subject: RE: BS: Town Murals From: Peace Sorry, Ebbie. Just saw this thread--but have seen the mural before. The technique and materials were tried out at the University of Alberta (on one of the buildings) about 20 years ago. Cochrane is to the south, near Calgary. |
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02 Oct 07 - 01:20 PM (#2162106) Subject: RE: BS: Town Murals From: Peace At the U of A Note: The mural is not painted directly onto the building. It is on panels that are approximately 4' by 6'--and that's a guess. The panels in turn are attached to the building. |
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03 Oct 07 - 01:24 PM (#2162842) Subject: RE: BS: Town Murals From: Desert Dancer Peace, as a University of Arizona employee I was momentarily confused by your "U of A" mural that I was unfamiliar with... Tucson's known for murals, especially Chicano &/or politically themed ones. Chicano murals Tucson Arts Brigade Googling on the topic I found a lengthy NY Times travel article on Tucson's murals, but it had no pictures! ~ Becky in Tucson |
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03 Oct 07 - 01:44 PM (#2162863) Subject: RE: BS: Town Murals From: Donuel Ebb that was fun. It put all the murals I have seen in NYC in the shade . |
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03 Oct 07 - 01:46 PM (#2162869) Subject: RE: BS: Town Murals From: Peace Desert Dancer, Sorry about that. I figure there's only one University of Alberta and I've always called it the You of Ay. Funny that would happen in Arizona, too. |
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12 Oct 07 - 05:14 PM (#2169862) Subject: RE: BS: Town Murals... Ebbie From: GUEST,Betty.. AB Cochrane is close to the mountains view map. http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?city=Cochrane&state=AB&country=CA&zoom=5 |
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12 Oct 07 - 09:38 PM (#2170001) Subject: RE: BS: Town Murals From: Bob the Postman Here are some mosaic murals in local slate/shale type stone in Salmo, B. C.. Salmo's main claim to Mudcat fame is that it is the home of Tom Lewis, the singer of sailers' songs. |
