Pic(k) of the Week: Live. Laugh. Love.

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Decatur Arts Festival
Decatur, Georgia, USA.
4 May 2024.

A jewelry artist was using a street mural as a backdrop for her product photos when she glanced my way. I captured the moment, unposed. Her clothing complemented the mural's pastel tones. Her hat bore the phrase, "Live. Laugh. Love." The image isn't askew; it's the slant of the city street that creates the illusion of tilt.

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Art Blakey: Once in a While

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Pic(k) of the Week: High Alley

Mural and cityscape, up high.

As seen through the windows of the Skyway —connecting the Anne Cox Chambers Wing and Wieland Pavilion— of the High Museum of Art: Atlanta, Georgia, USA. 9 February 2025.

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Bill Evans: Some Other Time (Everybody Digs Bill Evans, 1959)

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Pic(k) of the Week: The deejay & the muralist

Overhead, a vaping deejay spins as, below, a climbing muralist paints.

As seen during the East Atlanta Strut, a street festival in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. 28 September 2024.

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Pic(k) of the Week: Welcome to East Atlanta

A macabre greeting.

Mural by Atlanta-area artist Emily Cadena at a suburbanesque crossroads between the city neighborhoods of East Atlanta and Gresham Park.

Atlanta, Georgia, USA. 18 July 2024.

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Pic(k) of the Week: Live. Laugh. Love.

Just a happening-to-be-at-the-right-place-at-the-right-time moment.

The shot is unposed; I think this is a jewelry artist who had just finished using a mural as a product photo backdrop when she turned toward me. The pastel of her clothing seemed to complement the pastel of the mural; "Live. Laugh. Love" was the phrase on her hat. The image isn't askew; it's the city street that was on an incline!

Photo taken during the Decatur Arts Festival in the City of Decatur, Georgia, USA, on 4 May 2024.

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Pic(k) of the Week: Vernal Dreaming

This unnamed mural is painted on an outside side wall of Twain's Brewpub & Billiards, in Decatur, Georgia, USA. Often obscured by employee vehicles, it was in full view this winter morning (11 December 2022).

For its title, Vernal Dreaming, befitting the dank day, would be my conceit.

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Pic(k) of the Week: Look out

A mural and bicyclist on the BeltLine Eastside in the Reynoldstown neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia, USA. 18 February 2022.

The BeltLine is a former railway right-of-way in Atlanta, now being converted to a hiker/biker trail set to circumnavigate the city.

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Pic(k) of the Week: Decatur Self-Storage mural

In 2000, Atlanta-based artist Angela Bond painted a mural of cats on the side facade of a self-storage business building in Scottdale, Georgia. I've driven by the artwork several times in the past few years. Last week, I finally decided to take its picture.

If not quite stopping to smell the roses, it was taking the time to appreciate what I had taken for granted. 12 July 2020.

Here's what Ms. Bond wrote about herself and her art:

I studied art and business at Georgia State University, but my unorthodox style has developed over many years with numerous influences. Early on, my painting style was influenced by working with mosaics. I use the background color as a negative to build up the foreground positively in order to create a three-dimensional form. As my graphic/ hard edge style has evolved, there has become a strong influence by Pop Art and Fauvism. The influence of Pop Art is seen instantly in my graphic style and my use of everyday, ordinary creatures. You can see Fauvism’s influence with the large plains of bold color that I use and the reduction of colors to a minimum. Also, I am drawn to various paintings by Matisse where he uses intricate patterns on rugs and background designs.

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Clicking on the photo takes you to Flickr where you can see a larger image.. And, here's a tryptic also showing greater detail:

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Pic(k) of the Week: Outta beer; outta here.

Festooned with street art like this, a blocks-long metal wall separates the Atlanta BeltLine from the former CSX railroad Hulsey Yard, in the Reynoldstown district of Atlanta, Georgia, USA. 

I snapped a photo of this mural on 27 February 2018; now, its sentiment seems so appropriate. I haven't checked to see if it's still there. 

The Beltline is a not-yet-completed rails-to-trail pedestrian/biker/skater/runner circumnavigation of the city of Atlanta. A big sidewalk with a deficit of social-distancing but a surfeit of huffing-&-puffing, the BeltLine is something I'm avoiding these days.

Outta beer; outta here. 

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• Pic(k) of the Week: one in a weekly series of images posted on Saturdays, occasionally (as is the case today) with a good fermentable as the subject.
• Photo 16 of 52, for year 2020. See it on Flickr: here.
• Camera: Olympus Pen E-PL1.
  • Lens: Lumix G 20/F1.7 II.
  • Settings: 20 mm | 1/320 | ISO 200 | f/2.8
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Pic(k) of the Week: Yoga Central mural, in progress

I just had to stop my car, ask permission, and take the shot: the dappled morning light, throwing gold, was too good not to. A waning (near-full) moon was a bonus.

As part of the OuterSpace Project, "figurative artist" Taylor White paints a mural on an outside side wall of Yoga Central, in Decatur (Oakhurst), Georgia, USA, on 17 October 2019.

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Pic(k) of the Week: PBR at Northside Tavern

A mural depicting a bald eagle and the logo for Pabst Blue Ribbon beer is painted on the outside wall of Northside Tavern blues club —and 'dive' bar— in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Despite its name, Northside sits in Atlanta's Westside, an area that has experienced rampant redevelopment since February 2016, when I took this photo. One hopes for the club's continued long life.

And for that of the blues.

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Pic(k) of the Week: Beer Independence Day

Independence Day drinking, in the beer garden of Wild Heaven Beer (brewery), in Avondale Estates, Georgia, on 4 July 2019.

Other than being apropos for the day, the mural's caption —"Beer Independence Day 2017"— refers to 1 September 2017, the date on which breweries in Georgia were first 'free' to sell and pour their own beers on their own premises.

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