Art Along the Greenway
The Minneapolis Midtown Greenway is a fairly new bike trail that runs right through the middle of the city on an old railroad grade.
As you head towards the river in the Seward neighborhood, where the trail abuts a series of industrial/commercial buildings, you'll see this off to your left:
So you keep going for while, and there's more:
Nope, not done yet!
There has to be at least a hundred feet of wall, that's decorated up as high as a person can reach, and higher in some places. Click through to
see closeups of some creatures, a medium-sized version of the panorama, or even a very large version (28,000 by 1100 px) if you dare.
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Neat Stuff on the Intertubes: Ka-Boom!
So what the heck is this, caught on video one night in August 2007? Hint: it's not a evening fireworks display.
Click on the still frame to play.
Click through and play the video to find out. (NB: I have lost the original source for the video and would love to give credit to the author,
if I could! Unfortunately there is no name mentioned in the video.)
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Fun on the Kettle River
Posted Mon, July 20, 2009 - 9:00 PM
paddling
Yesterday I got together with my friends Stephen, Stanley, and Mark to head up and run the (ridiculously low) Kettle River near Sandstone, MN.
Stephen, a freelance outdoors writer, was putting together a story for the Star Tribune and needed to find some people with access to all the riverboarding
gear. Luckily, Mark and I had to purchase the gear a couple of years ago for Primal Quest Utah, and ever since, both of us have been trying to find
excuses to use it. So we all met up at Robinson Park just east of Sandstone, where I left my car and shuttled up to Head of the Rapids in Banning State Park,
about four miles upstream.
Below the fold - more on the trip downstream, and some video I took later in the day after we switched up and gave Stanley and Stephen a chance to
try out the boards!
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Neat Stuff on the Intertubes: Vertigo Edition
Posted Wed, July 15, 2009 - 9:09 PM
coolstuff, art
Well, so much for the "few times a week" promise from earlier this year! I've got an excuse, though - putting on the
MNOC Adventure-O this last weekend took up a lot of time and energy over the past month.
So now my summer's clear! And here's a little something to start it off.
One of my colleagues at work turned me on to the work of Edgar Mueller. He paints streets. But they're painted with a tremendous amount of care
and precision to reveal images like this:
You can see more of his work at his web site, including some interesting photos that show
how the illusion is destroyed from different camera angles.
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