Kings And Pioneers

flamingos

always a favorite...I have found tons of images not yet edited and organized, here's just a sampling I wanted to share...

Steven Brisson Photography

Tim Laman

Nikki O'Keefe

Joseph Van Os

JamesHager

Andy Richter

Roman civilization, 1st century A.D. Nilotic scenes with pygmies, 55-79 A.D., painting on plaster, 56x217 cm. From Pompei. Detail.

Taxidermist George Adams, who restores animals to their forest and jungle spendour, and recreates backgrounds to look like their habitat, arranging one of his birds in preparation for his exhibit 'Marsh Birds At Evening', at the New York Museum of Natural

Flock of eight flamingos wading in water, Lake Nakuru, Kenya

Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, Nov 2006
kevin schafer

flamingos

Inspiration

The fish that saved Pittsburgh. Mighty Pisces by The Sylvers

The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh. Chance of a lifetime

The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979) - Championship Game Team Entrances

nostalgic

I have been missing my inspiration potlucks on King Street. My amazing friends who were so willing to get out there and bring some juice to the group. Everyone brings something to the table. That's my potluck motto. Mr Gien asked me, the night that he came "Is it necessary to be so serious on a Saturday night?" But it is not meant to be serious- just fun and inspiring. Is talking about inspiration serious? Boring? Stiff? Or is it fun? Is the context too formal and forced? We drank enough wine for it to be fun, anyway.
Last year it finally became a real book- one step closer to the goal.
Potluck #2 to be published at the end of this year.
Until then, I'll keep looking out for inspiration...

MONUMENTA

Anish Kapoor at the Grand Palais-
Amazing to see the space so fully engaged in the one sculpture. Inside and outside.
When first inside you go through a revolving door into the space of about 100 square feet, with about one hundred people inside. It is hot, and red, and dark- the light is so surreal. Like you are in a womb. The warped perspective is an effect of the seams of the balloon, and also the silhouette of the greenhouse structure with the lights shining through.
I didn't realize we would go into the palais as well, and see the sculpture from the outside. What an amazing contrast, I took a deep refreshing breath. It was a very strange experience to be inside the giant balloon that I was now looking at, and touching the thick taught skin from the outside I could not imagine that hot space I had just come from was contained within.
What Romain said: I have never visited a sculpture that had people inside of it before- neither had I. And it was interesting to know that while I was inside of it I had no consciousness of the hundreds of people walking around outside of it in the bright, sunlit space. So much the opposite of the red stale aired enclosure.