more Art Fair

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Love these. Especially the moon behind the tree.







OMG! Look at these next two pics! This guy is totally stealing my ideas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And he has a better camera, and uses a tripod!

Totally not fair!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Ahem. (sorta wishing that woman I talked to yesterday could see this, that she might see how ridiculous she sounded...................)


Aren't these nice? I believe the oak leaf is my fave. (kinda wishing I could jack up the saturation on it, just to see what would happen.......... :-) And some poster-edging, of course.....)

Michael Moats.








Extremely cool textures on ceramics. (I like his cute little price tags, too.)

William Kidd.





I've never seen anything remotely like this green one. Cool.





I don't know that I'd want this, but I'd never seen anything quite like it.





Ok, enough Art Fair for the nonce. I'll go to work now.

This structure is full every week day, not just during Art Fair.

Doesn't it seem like some sort of commentary? ...mumble, mumble, public transportation, mumble, mumble... ??

I really hate parking structures. Driving round and round and round, hunting for a slot.... It makes me feel like an ant. Or something.

So grateful I can walk. Or take the bus. I essentially never have a car downtown on a work day. Less often than once a year.





Looking north on Thompson. The white building is the Institute for Social Research (I work for part of ISR, but not in this building any more). The brick and green building at the bottom is a new privately-owned dorm-ish thing. There are three privately-owned large student-housing things that have come on-line in the last couple of years. I wonder what other housing will be impacted. Will there be fewer student ghetto houses? Or will the poor economy mean that the new buildings are not filled?





Same view, not cropped, with parking structure (same as above), and University administration (brick) and Tower Plaza (green) on the right.

And plenty of camera distortion.





Another commentary on modern American life.

We'll call this one ... Vanishing Perspective.





Hmmmm.

Presuming the tree grew around the wire, and when they cut the tree down......

Somehow it just doesn't seem like this can be good..........






Ok. The work day is now over. Let's walk home.

This is the parking lot next to the library.

I was surprised to see so many enormous RVs. With satellite dishes and who knows what all. This is a major shift from the olden days, when artists built their booths from wood, from scratch, on Tuesday-before-Art-Fair-begins-on-Wednesday night, and camped out in their booths overnight. I remember one booth that had a second story, which was where the artist lived for the four days......

I am sure there are still plenty of starving artists around, but I guess they don't park in this lot.





It is often VERY hot and humid during Art Fair.

This year our excellent summer weather has continued.

It is often VERY crowded. Thursday evening it was more crowded than either Wednesday or Thursday mornings.

It's good, because more people, we hope, will mean more sales for the artists.

It's not good, because they get in *my* way..............

I held the camera at arms' length over my head. Too bad I'm not Kareem; this would have been a better shot taken a few feet higher.

Ah well. We work with what we have.

You can see it goes on and on. And on.

I like these people's shadows. See the light coming right through the hat?

We are presently in front of the post office, looking west on Liberty.





Downtown behind us. An "altered object" spotted on the way home.



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