I was in the City a couple of weeks ago. I saw a guy setting up a tripod with some sort of head piece in front of a local landmark. On the front of the tripod was a white convex board with a big slot cut vertically in the middle of the board. If you know me, you know that there was NO WAY I could let it go by without asking just what this guy was doin. So.... I walk up and ask, Is this some sort of tourist photo op or something? He laughed pretty loud and said, nope. He went on to tell me that he had developed a method of drawing an exact replica of real world objects on convex surface. This method gave depth to the objects he drew. And he asked me to take a look in the helmeted tripod...... When I looked, I saw an incredible sketch being drawn, that had a familiar feel to it. I said to him, Ive seen something like this in Chicagos OHare Airport. Its out between the G-concourse and the next terminal.... Well..... his eyes get really big and he says, You saw that?!?! I say yeah it was of Cloud Gate, thats a sculpture also known as the bean in Chicago. I asked, Do you know what Cloud Gate is? He laughs at me some more..... he says, Yeah, Im pretty familiar with it.... I drew the piece of art you are talking about... He told me that I was the first person that had actually brought it up in casual conversation..... (this kinda shhhtuff only happens to me folks......) I was all, like..... SHUT. UP. He says, Yeah, my brother and I are having a showing of our art a few blocks from here. Would you like to come? He and his identical twin work on this stuff together. I soooo wish I had the chance to go see his show..... but alas, back to work and the real world for me..... So a few photos from me today..... my view of the real cloud gate (a year ago).... my view at OHare of his artwork (two years ago, and yes, I took a photo of dudes work!)..... and two from dudes webpage.... He said his name was Trevor Oakes.....
Posted on: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 23:17:49 +0000
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