Showing posts with label The Orange Show. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Orange Show. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Siege - Days 36 and 37

It's come to this - not only do I only know what day of the week this is because yesterday was Garbage Day, but I can't find my calendar.  When did I even look at it last?

(Walking in the neighborhood across the street I saw a whole row of recliner / movie chairs set out on the curb.  Either to be hauled away as trash... or to comfortably watch The Trash Truck Show, the biggest excitement in our stuck-at-home lives right now.)

Projects in progress are progressing... 

I finally escaped from rewriting Chapters 5 and 6 of the second edition of Alice Through the Proscenium (I'd been trapped there for days, adding material, but mostly trying to impose order and logic.)  Chapter 7 is not fighting back as hard... so far.

The imaginary beach house is spawning imaginary additions and gardens.  Feel very satisfied to have located the imaginary rain collection tank (for imaginary rain) so neatly.  Next, I will imagine imaginary decorative and Rube Goldbergian downspouts, gargoyles, gutters, strainers, water-dumpers, and completely unnecessary spinny, twirly, wind-socky, weathervane-y, rain-gage-y accoutrements  for it.  I want a crazy water contraption / sculpture!  With a side of sea food, please.

Basically, a marine life version of these crazy birds at Houston's The Orange Show.

The Orange Show - photos by G. DeVries




Aren't they great?

No imaginary castles to map at the moment, but a friend's very real garden needs mapping.  That'll be fun!  (Almost as much fun as those wild birds.)


Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Houston's The Orange Show

Finally finished a Squidoo page on this eccentric Houston landmark: the outsider-art construction of Jeff McKissack devoted to celebrating the healthful ORANGE!

Photo of Houston'e The Orange Show - donated to the Public Domain

More on outsider art in general and The Orange Show in particular HERE.

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Outsider Art and Architecture

I'm doing a little research on outsider art - specifically on those naive artists who built environments like Houston's The Orange Show or the French postman who built Le Palais Ide'al.

Le Palais Ide'al, France - public domain photo from Wikipedia

HERE's another blog with terrific photos of this forty-years-abuilding pebble garden.

A Squidoo page on this topic coming sooooon...