A cool look back at old signs and the stories behind them...

[Corey]

Check out the "Fade to Brick" feature here:

http://www.cbcradio3.com/issues/2004_03_19/index.cfm

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software (http://www.indigorose.com)

[eric_darling]

That's great stuff! Savannah's full of these faded reminders as well. I need to go out and document with the camera, too. Thanks for the inspiration, Corey.

[Corey]

Indeed you should do a small piece like that on the side, I'd love to see it, and the city would probably buy it, no?

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software (http://www.indigorose.com)

[JimS]

Thanks for the link Corey, that is a cool pictorial. I also would like to see any pictures that Eric might like to share.

My particular fetish is murals. I like everything from artistic spray-can graffiti, to near photo quality advertisements. From whimsical whales, to the politics of Diego Rivera, or Inner City artists, to cut stone or tile mosaics.

I have a peculiar fondness for artistic imagery expressed in grand physical size.
:ok

[Corey]

If I had more time I would be painting large scale pieces right now. I'm saving that for when I'm old.

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software (http://www.indigorose.com)

[JimS]

I dream of a piece of large-scale art that covers an interior wall and part of the ceiling. I just can’t make up my mind what I want it to say.

[Corey]

Well perhaps this recent piece of beat poetry my roomate and I did will clear it up for you. I wrote and produced it, he did th ereading and played the lone musical background track on a sax through some effects. Every sound you hear there is from a single live sax track.

http://www.saxloops.com/bfid.mp3

Marv's the man. Our house is fun. The Lyrics (http://www.saxloops.com/bfid.txt)

That should clear it right up for you. :wow I've been an artist and musician since about the age of three and there's only one single thing I can say for sure after all that, "Don't worry about the message. The process is what it's all about. The message will be what it is." I know that sounds trite Jim but you'll have to trust me. I can outplay 99% of the guitarists who come through town from a purely technical standpoint, that's not the issue. The point is that they are all saying the same thing, over and over and over and over. It's like TV ads. Musical french fries. Why would anybody who has a choice subject themselves to that?

Anyhow if you get hung up on the message you'll miss out on the process and that's where *all* the benefit lies, i.e. no painter ever got profoundly good because of his message, but every painter who ever got great did so through the process of painting. The process is the only thing that matters, the rest of it is just distraction.

*Especially* the "What will other people think of it?" syndrome. That's for the birds.

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software (http://www.indigorose.com)