Look Close!

I spotted this telephone pole by the Ann Arbors Farmers Market this morning. It is a rare day indeed when one encounters a pole without any flyers posted to it. I thought this was quite beautiful and remarkable at the same time.

A chair for your butt!

Brought to you by paul m. hickman. 

Take a closer look. Those are indeed hundreds of cigarette butts glued to this chair. It was a piece he put together while in graduate school. It toured a bit, but the galleries complained about the smell. Go figure.

Anyway, he found this when I mentioned a friend was trying to quit. So I forwarded it to my friend as a bit of encouragement. 

I wonder what ever happened to it....?

BIG ART!

A giant cigarette butt was dropped in the middle of Trafalgar Square, London as a protest against the city's burning littering problem. Ever since smoking in indoor public places was banned, Londoners have been smoking outdoors and throwing the stubs on the streets. The Keep Britain Tidy campaign installed the giant structure to remind people that cigarette butts littler 78% of all streets in Great Britain.

Maybe this is what should have been selected for Ann Arbor City Hall!

Neurosis' & Anxieties

These funny guys are only about two inches tall and they have flip sides as well. Meaning if you look at the two pictures closely you will see that they are indeed different. One picture shows the front and the other shows the back. Now which is which, I have been unable to determine.

The artist named them Neurosis' and Anxieties and I bought them at the Ann Arbor Art Center. I love their size, quirkiness, colors, and cyclops faces! 

Squirrels in the Arb

The Arb is a 123 acrer park in the middle of Ann Arbor. A fabulous place to go and get away from the hustle and bustle of the city. Lower Michigan recently had an invasion of the Emerald Ash bore which crawls between the bark and cellulose of a tree and kill it. As a creative way to deal with the left over stumps, squirrel art was born! 

This other photo is a close up of a tree that has been killed by this bore and it's aftermath. People have also taken a little liberty with the lower part in the picture.