With kidnappings in Tennessee, JP Morgan pissing money away and the President’s stance on same-sex marriage stirring the pot, let’s remember that we’re all on the same freedom-lovin’ side. Have some ‘Merica with that coffee and get on with your Friday.
Gene Inman snapped this vibrant shot up in the Heights. He did not write a song for you. If he had, it wouldn’t be called Yellow. The color of this flower is as close as it gets to Coldplay. Ugh, Richard referenced Coldplay.
It’s the end of the week. We’ve reached the end of the tracks. Time to turn around and do it all again next week.
This image by ZERO CEM was taken at the First Look Festival, hosted by and in celebration of the Asia Society of Texas on April 14th and 15th. Asia Society of Texas? Yes. It’s that stunning, new Yoshio Taniguchi-designed 40,000-square-foot building at the corner of Caroline and Southmore.
If you’re interest has been grabbed, view some of the highlights in this video.
Usually we keep the lines between Street Art of the Week and Photo of the Week well apart from each other, which is why if you’ve ever loaded the likes of Shreddi or Coolidge into The Loop Scoop Photogs group, it’s never been chosen for POTW. Today the lines are blurred. They’ve been blurred in the past. Take cybertoad’s shot from August 2010, where the “street” in street art was taken quite literally by artist Carlos Cruz-Diez.
Today’s no different. This peach of a picture can be found on the wall of Alva Graphics at the corner of Shepherd and Center streets. We can thank VeronicaGS for this capture, titled Texas. It’s street art, but not in the traditional sense—it’s legal.
Knotty ground? Protruding wood? Aerial roots? What does one call it? Does the composition remind anyone else of that famous Civil War Photo? This famous Civil War Photo.
What is Houston? Is it the Astros, the Blues, empanadas, UH, the Allen Brothers, phở or Washington? Is it Saint Arnold, gyros, TSU, Mayor Annise Parker, ConocoPhillips, fried bananas with coconut ice cream or an abundance of taco trucks? Is it Westheimer, variations on grits, Chopped and Screwed, the Med Center or the Museum District? Is it Rice, Williams Tower, burgers with fried eggs, generosity or Art Deco?
Probably.
Take it all away, as it will fade from memory and influence in the distant future and you’re left with this. That’s a solid foundation. Thank you, Sulla55.
That looks delicious. Thank you, Michael Shum.
It’s another beautiful morning in Houston. ZERO CEM is responsible for this photo of the sun rising over Downtown Houston. Thank him.
What’s that stone sculpture in the foreground? That? That’s the Houston Police Officer’s Memorial at 1400 Memorial Drive. This granite work of art, featuring five pyramids – one up and four down, was created by Jesus Bautista Moroles in 1990. If you haven’t examined it in person—I’d recommend it.
Oh and here’s the Black Crowes with “Good Morning, Captain”—let it take you where it will.
lc-db provides us with this encouraging photo, wherein you’ll see a section of the Berlin Wall at the James Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University. It might seem as if it’s just a chunk of concrete, but the sheer size and amount of wear evident on its exterior help to convey what its purpose in Germany represented.
When it came down in 1989, its remnants took on an entirely new meaning. As University President Malcolm Gillis said at its opening in 2001, it now speaks to “the human mind and the human spirit in its quest for freedom.”
