RE: PESO: Cow Truck

2010-06-11 Thread John Sessoms
From: "Daniel J. Matyola" On the way home from work today, I ran into a traffic jam, and found myself behind a truck carrying a cow: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4135 http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4131 Comments, Suggestions, Criticisms, Suggestions and Abuse are Wel

Re: PESO: Cow Truck

2010-06-10 Thread Cotty
On 10/6/10, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed: >surely you mean Cownadian? >From Moontreal? -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche -- http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pd

Re: Re: PESO: Cow Truck

2010-06-10 Thread Ken Waller
From: "Daniel J. Matyola" Subject: Re: Re: PESO: Cow Truck Over the years, I have seen 7 or 8 of these events, where people got an animal and decorated it artistically as part of a community or charity event. By far the most clever were the Bears in Bern -- the variety and the humor w

Re: PESO: Cow Truck

2010-06-10 Thread Matthew Hunt
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Bob Sullivan wrote: > Chicago had one of the first cow display art projects (1999). > Fiberglass cows were decorated and displayed locally > at points all around the city. One member of the herd subsequently wandered off to Cooperstown: http://www.flickr.com/pho

Re: Re: PESO: Cow Truck

2010-06-10 Thread Jerry in Arizona
These cows or their predecessors were distributed around Houston in the early '90s.  This is a pic I took outside the Glassell School of Art, Pentax PZ3, lens ?, Agfa BW film, Scanned from the negative on Epson scanner. http://i896.photobucket.com/albums/ac164/gelewis_2010/TexasArtCow.jpg --

Re: PESO: Cow Truck

2010-06-10 Thread Ken Waller
Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: "Bob Sullivan" Subject: Re: PESO: Cow Truck Well, I'm sure those cement cows are hard to steal... I'm sure that's cast in stone. Regards, Bob S. On Thu, Jun 10

Re: Re: PESO: Cow Truck

2010-06-10 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Over the years, I have seen 7 or 8 of these events, where people got an animal and decorated it artistically as part of a community or charity event. By far the most clever were the Bears in Bern -- the variety and the humor were outstanding. Dan On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Bob Sullivan wr

Re: Re: PESO: Cow Truck

2010-06-10 Thread Bob Sullivan
Chris, I'm sure Knarf could arrange some nice Canada Geese to go along with your Canadian cows. Regards, Bob S. On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Chris Mitchell wrote: > > Bob Sullivan wrote: >> Like Wikipedia says, Zurich had lions in '96, >> then did cows in '98 and Chicago took it internation

RE: Re: PESO: Cow Truck

2010-06-10 Thread Bob W
> Bob Sullivan wrote: > > Like Wikipedia says, Zurich had lions in '96, > > then did cows in '98 and Chicago took it international in '99. > > It was a fun and a very public art celebration. > > (Now if we could just clew the Brits in to using fiberglass, not > cement...) > > Regards, Bob S. > > >

Re: Re: PESO: Cow Truck

2010-06-10 Thread Chris Mitchell
Bob Sullivan wrote: > Like Wikipedia says, Zurich had lions in '96, > then did cows in '98 and Chicago took it international in '99. > It was a fun and a very public art celebration. > (Now if we could just clew the Brits in to using fiberglass, not cement...) > Regards, Bob S. > I regret to ha

Re: PESO: Cow Truck

2010-06-10 Thread Bob Sullivan
ce. > > > > >> -Original Message- >> From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of >> Bob Sullivan >> Sent: 10 June 2010 15:55 >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> Subject: Re: PESO: Cow Truck >> >> Dan, >> L

RE: PESO: Cow Truck

2010-06-10 Thread Bob W
5 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: PESO: Cow Truck > > Dan, > Like Wikipedia says, Zurich had lions in '96, > then did cows in '98 and Chicago took it international in '99. > It was a fun and a very public art celebration. > (Now if we c

Re: PESO: Cow Truck

2010-06-10 Thread Bob Sullivan
Dan, Like Wikipedia says, Zurich had lions in '96, then did cows in '98 and Chicago took it international in '99. It was a fun and a very public art celebration. (Now if we could just clew the Brits in to using fiberglass, not cement...) Regards, Bob S. On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Daniel J.

RE: PESO: Cow Truck

2010-06-10 Thread Bob W
we've got fibre-glass elephants all over the place at the moment. > > The "cow parade" concept originated in Zurich. I saw them there years > ago. Bern then had a similar project with bears, rather than cows. I > have also seem mermaids (in Halifax). In our area, we had contests > for decora

Re: PESO: Cow Truck

2010-06-10 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
The "cow parade" concept originated in Zurich. I saw them there years ago. Bern then had a similar project with bears, rather than cows. I have also seem mermaids (in Halifax). In our area, we had contests for decorating fiberglass horses as a charity fund raiser. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Re: PESO: Cow Truck

2010-06-10 Thread Bob Sullivan
Dan, That does look like those English cows from Milton Keyes, but I'll bet it's not concrete! Chicago had one of the first cow display art projects (1999). Fiberglass cows were decorated and displayed locally at points all around the city. http://www.chicagotraveler.com/cowsonparade1.htm Your

Re: PESO: Cow Truck

2010-06-10 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Thanks, Dominique. Yes, the first image is stronger. The second was added mostly to show what was in the truck a bit more clearly. Dan On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 4:07 AM, Madame RD wrote: > Le 10/06/10 04:56, Daniel J. Matyola a écrit : >> >> On the way home from work today, I ran into a traffic

Re: PESO: Cow Truck

2010-06-10 Thread Madame RD
Le 10/06/10 04:56, Daniel J. Matyola a écrit : On the way home from work today, I ran into a traffic jam, and found myself behind a truck carrying a cow: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4135 http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4131 Comments, Suggestions, Criticisms, Suggesti

RE: PESO: Cow Truck

2010-06-09 Thread Bob W
> On the way home from work today, I ran into a traffic jam, and found > myself behind a truck carrying a cow: > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4135 > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4131 > > Comments, Suggestions, Criticisms, Suggestions and Abuse are Welcome. > > Da

PESO: Cow Truck

2010-06-09 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
On the way home from work today, I ran into a traffic jam, and found myself behind a truck carrying a cow: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4135 http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4131 Comments, Suggestions, Criticisms, Suggestions and Abuse are Welcome. Dan -- PDML Pentax-