In honor of my father’s big birthday today, here it is — the legendary band with their legendary hair, the poster for their impending (?) tour. Yes, the band was short lived, as long as my younger brother and father could manage to get the rest of the family to listen to their guitar-drum duo after Sunday dinners in the living room. Briefly there was a tambourinist involved as well, but that ended in bitterness and tragedy not to be mentioned here.
On a cassette tape somewhere in Pittsburgh, is the only recording of their early 90s hits — Patrick (b. 1987) had his “We’ve Been Rocking Since 1969″ and Martin (b. 1948) with the Dylanesque “Going Downtown” that featured only two words in all its lyrics. And if you need more, don’t worry, they have a third song too, for all of Patrick’s female appreciators, “Baby, Wipe Your Eyes for Me.”
You asked for it, here they are, Rock The World!
So Pittsburgh is hot, sticky hot. 1619 Broadway Avenue is hotter, though. And what does that mean? One thing: duct tape war! I decided it was the easiest way to hang my talking heads in Beechview. I tried a few bouts of hanging, securing, rehanging, resecuring, and the sun won every time. Duct tape melted, circle heads collapsed, repeat. But today I got the twine and needles out, and knotted & sewed the heads up to the window-frame, so fingers crossed I’ve finally bested my nemesis sun.
Tomorrow: 6 new talking heads! Now that I’ve learned my July lesson, no more duct tape, no more glue, nothing more that could melt, bubble, drip, or burst. Back to the basics — staples, jute and straight pins. We’ll see how I’m defeated next time…
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So another 9 faces are done, ready for quoting, talking, printing & display! I’ll get them up (and the other 9 re-sturdily-hung after some truly disastrous melting duct tape incidents) in the next two days. See the rough sketches of the face below , before color was tamped down a little, and the faces got shadowed and colored.
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Onto the next stage of The Beechview Project! Thanks to lots of responses to my calls for thoughts on Beechview, I’ve prepared the first crop of 9 talking heads, for display in 1619 Broadway. They’ll go up tomorrow.
I have to take some pride in my thriftiness here — altogether, they cost just $5.29 to print out — 15″ circles printed out in 4×6″ glossy photo tiles. Thanks CVS! I cut them out and assembled them onto thick cardboard circles I cut out from old computer screen boxes. The photo tiles were Elmer glued on, and then the cardboard circles were straightpinned onto a wide swath of ribbon. Tomorrow, I’ll tie the ribbon up above the window, so that the 9 will hang as a grid in one of the giant 1619 windows.
I still need more responses for the next 9 circles, so come leave feedback if you haven’t already!
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My back up plan for law school is t-shirts. I have ideas, lots of Pittsburgh ideas, and I am going to make them into millions, ideally of US dollars. I begin with cats! Pittsburgh cats, from 12 neighborhoods to begin with. International T-Shirt Day is Monday, Pittsburgh t-shirts are on the rise, who needs law school?
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My planned project for the uninhabited buildings along Broadway Avenue in Beechview, now I’m just waiting to hear back from Pittsburgh Citypeople.
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We mass produced the Rarr Monster Girl last night at AIR’s open studio — here she is taking over Pittsburgh. To be on sale at the upcoming I Made It Market!
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