Painting inquiries can be made direct to the artist:
Live Local Artist
Jerrel Sustaita
livelocalartist@gmail.com
Thanks to this artist for his permission to publish his work that was hanging on the fence as he continued to work and talk to interested clients.
While I was totally glued to the streaming feed from Fox 4's eggbeater from 10-4 yesterday, the temperature was in the upper 60s. It didn't matter. It is a mesmerizing time. Leaving the house was the last thought in my mind. So, today, after breakfast and coffee, checking emails and my on-line listings with my agent, it was time to get some fresh and crisp air some ten degrees cooler than the high I missed out on yesterday.
It was off to the bank and then a stop at a church where I vote early.They have the new voting machines which I do not like. There is no privacy anymore. The person next to you can easily look over at your screen for one dislike. I don't mind the touch screen desktops but the privacy issue still bothers me. The second issue is that I do not like having my back to all the other voters. It's just one of my little annoy factors.
Then, it was off to go back down to Uptown to see another live afternoon of watching the wrecking ball bang against the Leaning Tower. It took a few laps around a block to finally get a parking spot. This was the first time that I had gotten close to the action. But the turnover of people with cameras, video recorders and iphone-type cells was even more than I had seen on Sunday.
I was talking to one guy that was telling me that his wife was mesmerized by the process. That seems to be the word of the day because several others were talking about how mesmerized they were about the tower. I found that most interesting.
Earlier, while talking to the man who's wife was at a spot in the fence where she could get a good shot, we were talking about stress points. I remembered when Texas Stadium was imploded, the building fell but the buttresses on the outside of the stadium didn't all go down, leaving about 3 or 4 to be taken down like the leaning tower. He had ask me about the buttresses. They transfer stress from the weight above and distribute it down to the ground.The point is, if the crane operator swings the ball at one of the stress points, everything about is coming down. About the time that I was leaving, the crane operator hit one of those stress points and about three floors fell. If he hits one of those stress points (load bearing) I believe that the top two or three stories will topple. It's only a matter of time, but I don't know what the other OSHA factors are about wrecking ball a 11-store core of a building.
Here is your chance to have a lasting memory of this mesmerizing event.The local artist that painted these on site is provided at the top of this post. He has facebook, twitter and instagram accounts where you can follow him and his other works
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| Hand painted canvas by an Urban Artist,see contact info at top of article. |
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| Here are some more with the artist talking to a client. |
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| The wrecking ball at 5600 pounds is controlled by OSHA on a site like this. |
