Bookmarks

I wonder where I have found all this energy! Here I am making another post, the second in a week after sitting idle for a year!

Anyway I just finished printing and signing 9 bookmarks on canvas stock of a local landmark, the Manitowoc River that I had shot earlier this year before there was a foot of snow covering everything!

I got the idea for printing on canvas after a local shop owner gave me a sample of the material. I love the way it feels.. unlike paper it is soft, bends and feels more like a shirt than a photo!

The plan is to place them in two local grocery stores. We will see if the response is better from something that the finder might find useful.

B

Christmas Paper?

You perhaps have noticed I have gone through a "dry" period with regard to my distributing my "Found Art" but thanks to some kind words from a blogger who calls herself JAFABrit I have come out of my hole and have been "distributing" again. I now have accepted that people that find my pictures will probably not take the time to login and comment about the art, I have at the very least gotten a little bit of myself out there for the world to see and perhaps enjoy!

So this Christmas many of my friends and relatives will be "getting" gifts from me wrapped with my own 19X13 inch wrapping paper. I haven't decided if I will "print" the "Found Art" sticker directly on the image side of the paper or on the back side. I know, I know... it will be all "wrinkled" after being used as wrapping paper, but I figure "so what?" I am now 68 years old and quite comfortable with wrinkles!!!

Bobby

Radio Station targeted for Found-Art

This past Sunday I left this photograph of a lilac tree branch at Cub Radio in Manitowoc, WI on an end table in the lobby.

It was taken with a 4 X 5 Speed Graphic in my backyard about a year ago and underwent major surgery with Photo Shop to give it a rather "strange" look.

So far I have not had anyone report finding my pictures, but I am not giving up, and plan to distribute more this weekend at the art show on Saturday.

Slow week, but good prospects at upcoming art show

Well, because of many small snow storms over the past week, I have been pretty much kept at home so I didn't distribute much art, except for one night shot that I made of a tree in the front yard.. talk about a lazy mans photo op.

The tree picture was left in Manitowoc, WI on a shelf in the dairy department of a local Piggly Wiggly store. So far no one has contacted me but I am not giving up!

On the weekend of March 10, 2007 I have been asked to display some of my photographs at a local green house (flowers, not necessarily energy efficient) and plan to leave 6 Found-Art labeled photos around the building before I leave, and plan to tell as many people as I can about the Found-Art project. In spite of the total lack of response that my renderings have had, I still think it is a GREAT idea.

Submarine heading for Biloxi, MS

My brother-in-law, Roger, returned to his home in Biloxi MS today and took with him a photograph of the USS Cobia which is on display in Manitowoc, WI on the Manitowoc River. I took this photo of the submarine this summer and he will drop it off somewhere in Biloxi.

Along with the sub, he has a photograph of the Rawley Point Light house

He has a layover in Atlanta, GA and will leave a little of WI Found Art there. I gave him a photo of the City of Manitowoc as viewed from the 21st Street Viaduct, looking East towards the downtown of Manitowoc.

Green Bay, WI Airport (KGRB)

My wife and I will be dropping my brother-in-law Roger off at the Brown County Airport in Green Bay, WI on Friday and will also be dropping off a photograph of two Re-enactors that we took this Summer. They were sitting under a tree in uniform and reminded me of a photo that a friend had taken of two firemen that I liked, so I asked if I could take their picture and they said "sure", so here it is. I forgot to ask for their names, but what do you expect from a 65 year old scatterbrain?

So here is the pic that will be dropped off at the airport at the same time as Roger. I hope they both make it safely to their final destination, Biloxi, MS for Roger, and with someone who likes the photo for the two soldiers, whomever they are!