TV: "They say that when a red hawk crosses the sky, it signals a great bla bla bla..."
[MUTE]
BB: Y'see, the purpose of this ad is to keep people like me from going to this casino.
MF: They don't need to do anything to keep you from going to their casino.
BB: Yeah. That's it. It's to show the people who want to go there that, when they're there, they won't have to worry about people like me being there. Bumming their trip.
Thursday, July 09, 2009
Red Hawk Casino Ad
Sunday, July 05, 2009
Bird Motion Study
Bird Motion Study
Originally uploaded by dumbeast
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Farmer Boy Bat
Farmer Boy Bat, originally uploaded by dumbeast.
Farmer Boy was great. They'll give you albondigas for breakfast. All the waitstaff are hardbitten old broads who've been around the block, and they call you "dearie". It opened in 1958, and they haven't redecorated.
There are midcentury illustration-style paintings and murals which play up the Farmer Boy theme. Another artist did a painting of the Farmer Boy in the mensroom. The Farmer Boy is standing in the yard in front of the farmhouse, feeding chickens. He's barefoot, towheaded, looks to be about 5 years old. Except for the head, which looks like the head of a middle aged manager of a Dodge dealership grafted onto a boy's body.
People come in there with the automotive swap-meet catalog and talk about the trailer they want to get--I've seen a Volkswagen van haul this thing, it's so light and balanced. One morning there was a gathering of old guys in the back corner booth quietly reciting an AA prayer. Everybody loves the owner Ralph Karleskint.
Monday, June 29, 2009
Bike-A-Thon Poster That Doesn't Make One Want to Stay In Bed For the Rest of One's Life
Bike-A-Thon Poster That Doesn't Make One Want to Stay In Bed For the Rest of One's Life, originally uploaded by dumbeast.
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Sunday, June 28, 2009
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Schematic
For a proposed piece for the corner of 15th and Jackson in Oakland. I was trying to get this together, first as a project for Oakland Public Art Program's Open Proposals 2009-2010, and then, when that became too discouraging and bureaucratic, as a piece of guerrilla drop-art. But, if I was going to do that, I'd want to have it together for Pride Week, and time's too tight.
I've never clandestinely affixed colored felt to pavement before, and there are too many bugs to iron out. Additionally, speaking to my attorney yesterday, he pointed out that if I got caught, and if the city decided that it cost more than $400 to clean up, and the if the DA and the judge wanted to be dicks about it, I'd be looking at the f-word ("felony") and never be able to vote again.
I hate having to rationalize myself out of what, on the surface of it, ought to be a fun and decent lark. It's a pretty idea. It would make people happy.
Stupid real world.
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