6/3/08

GIVE by the POUND!

So,

I had a partial day at work today. We had this (GREY GIVES) community works function planned through the agency to beautify the southern end of HIGHBRIDGE PARK. Some weeks back I'd submitted a few mural ideas for this project. I'd heard a few of them where selected. But, I didn't know this was happening with them.
1,900-FOOT CANVAS!!
Three murals I submitted wound up being selected for as a repeated pattern down a stretch of the high bridge bike path (photos to come).. More astounding then this was that I saw my name in the NY Times (blush). Other then that I was doing some murals that where presented to a local public school show below.


Even Weirder still is that the Shirt I am wearing in that photo won me a little prize for best shirt design of the day. Too Bad your too far away to see. I will share it on down the road. I wanna try to make another one first.

I coulda' spent all day on these murals but, am exceedingly thankful that I had all the assistance from team #16 to crank them out in a little under 3 hours. I will post up the original images I submitted for the mural judgings tomorrow, along with a few others that didn't make the cut.

In the end I painted, chatted up some of my friendly co-workers, publicly danced like a fool, won a t-shirt design contest, and planted small bushes in the occasional patch of poison ivy..all while almost falling down a hill..... It was an awesome day.

Hope your all well,

Thanks for checking in...I promise more art in the next post.

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4 comments:

Liam said...

Congratulations indeed Mr Pedro,
looking forward to seeing your art up there-here's to many more awesome days for you!

Mark said...

Hey thanks for the comment again.. Yeah I know what you mean.. I was in photoshop just experimenting with a whole bunch of stuff so i tried out different things as a pose to having them all have the same kinda look.. It was pretty fun messin around.

GOGOPEDRO said...

Thanks guys...I appreciate it.

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Elliot Cowan said...

You are some kind of god king!

Really though - what a delight to have your work displayed in public, and big too!