www.museumpeace.com/07/0604.htm

4 June

St. Boniface
1999.06.04

Pilgrimage
2000.06.04

Re: David Rimanelli
2003.06.04 11:40
2003.06.04 20:01
Re: Maint Stream Art, Folk Art, and Kitsch
2003.06.04 12:42

safe keeping
2006.06.04 10:05
going crackers 2003.06.10 part 2
2006.06.04 10:23
More Taboo Solipsist Adventures
2006.06.04 10:44

art
2008.06.04

More Taboo Solipsist Adventures
2006.06.04 10:44

My last post at artblog was also deleted; I told Libby and Roberta that they were at museumpeace.blogspot.com last week as well. After my deleted message I see that Zoe Strauss said, "you are both truly superb." I now know that Zoe Strauss occasionally travels and shoots along the Roosevelt Boulevard, a road I'm deeply familiar with (for at least 45 years), so here's some of my journey along the Roosevelt Boulevard 2001.10.21.

I'm pretty sure taking pictures while driving is taboo. It's probably better to just use your own lenses.

Re: Built for speed (architecture/design for transit)
2001.11.26

Anyway, back on the Roosevelt Blvd. (which is a twelve lane 1920s City Beautiful design that goes on for miles and miles through Northeast Philadelphia), every weekend there are human (held) signs advertising Jason's Furniture at about a half dozen intersection before the warehouse store. These signs are big and graphic (kind of like the Venturi and Rauch designs circa 1976) with little slits for the sign holders to see out from behind. I have no idea what the guys that hold these signs all afternoon get paid, but they do entertain me whenever I see them.

The other "human" signs on the Blvd. are the now several spontaneous memorials. There is that solitary white cross with framed pictures at "C" and the Blvd, and all those stuffed animals and balloons around that big tree near 2nd and the Blvd., and that hand-crafted portrait of a young man hanging with a artificial flower cross from another tree around 4th and the Blvd. It distresses me to think what may have caused these roadway deaths, but as signs on the highway go, they're the ones that carry the most important message for me.

««««

»»»»