Open Thread Wednesday

Tomorrow is good Friday Many, many houses of Worship will have wonderful services including several here in the Heights. Doesn’t the day and what it represents, warrent a visit, or even s pause to contemplate what is really important? People should be at least thankful that as American we can worship as we want without fear. In a LOT of the world that is not the case….

In other words, a candy apple paint job. Joe Bailon originated that technique, which is far better at the use of light and the interplay of light and dark than what was shown. All of which indicates;
A) Americans invented everything first and best and
B) Everything is better here…at least it was in the 50’s and early 60’s
C) Barris, Bailon, Starbird, Roth, Watson, Winfield and Cushinberry are
the real and only art immortals.

Don’t forget to include your source/link! The museum much appreciates it…

:)

No actuially the use of varnishes, shellac and later, laquors to creat dept is very old. Classic cars in the 1920’s used to get shellac over paint to achieve depth. But it took Joe Bailon (and his many imitators) to perfect what artists had been attempting for hundreds of years. So:
A) Americans invented everything or after incompetent foreigners botched or minimally tried, perfected everything.
B) Everything is better here
(read: before the sixties
garbage happened)
C) Barris, Bailion, Watson et al
are the only real artistic
figures you need to
concerned with….

Most top kustom kars are restricted by insurance outside a 60 or 70 mile radius from the city. The only exception are low riders which are not real Kustoms, and are allowed inside NYC for the Mexican day parade. Most kustoms are Ford or GM based but I think the ’57 Dodge
Custom Royal with the Jato bottle from the Lawrence Welk show commercial IS in the Smithsonian at at times is loaned to the Frick.
Nothing like a ’57 Exner Dodge with 5000 lbs of thrust on tap.

Spoken like a true philistine…

Maybe you should change yours to “Unknown”.

Oh you’ll never guess.

You brought up the subject of depth in applied finished and the interplay of light and shadow. I simply observed that the best depth
and use of shadow is by the people who invented paint intended to cause extended depth. And that “artists” from some foreign who knows what slobovia is never going to produce anything like a candy apple paint or pearl let alone Metalflake. That’s why, well, read my three observations/conclusions above because that’s the basic transcendent truth here……

With which I DO feel we should get back to Heights related subjects.

Er, I met the Pres. of the BHA on the Clark St station platform. He was so pleased to see me….I told him, in carefully indirect terms, that people are going to have a low tolerance of Blacks or anyone else coming into the Heights and targeting White women, and secondarily any women. He bounded onto an arriving #2 train escaping quickly, but my message was initially if quickly delivered.

Of course, I don’t think anything will be taken seriously until and unless some casino type is hit over the head or seriously hassled
Then it will become a national emergency in those circles__,

You’re lucky you didn’t end up on the tracks. I hope to meet you one day. Next time I pass you on Monroe, I’ll introduce myself. Should be interesting. I hope I’m in a good mood, since you need some correction.

I feel your frustration, but anyone who thinks painting a car is a higher level of artistic achievement than a Rembrandt Masterpiece is beyond “correction”.

We are several of my more intolerant of vulnerable Heights residents being abused and other illegal activity, friends who happen to be here watching me enter these modest submissions…

One of them made the observation that you may not be one of them but you’re sprituially and behaviorally one of them. On balance, I agree. While your behavior is often funny, it has a frankly, in my view, an unsavory element in that you seem more focused on personalities you don’t like and less on the overall safety level of the Heights.

What exactly do you mean by “one of them”?

Today is Easter Sunday, Everyone should stop and think of what this day represents. Many houses of worship are open, even if you only briefly visit, it will lift your life, and in helping the spiritual influence here. You’ll lift the Heights.