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So the 'Hubs and I are watching a show last night on Ovation about the auction of this eccentric, disgustingly rich fellow's estate. Before we can get to the interesting business of how much people will pay for "art" that looks like something I made in tenth grade shop class, everyone has to share anecdotes about the man himself. One woman recounts how he liked to have strange things built at the edges of his vast property in the woods, so that people would just stumble upon them, like this gypsy wagon.
"Oh, man," I say, "if I had the money and the talent, I would so do that when I retired. Just, you know, travel around and stop in random, out-of-the-way places to build weird little statues or strange little garish houses so that people stumble across them and marvel years later and wonder who built them and why. It would just be like leaving a little bit of mystery for someone's life."
"That sounds like a lot of work." 'Hubs muses. "Why don't you just do what that guy in Edmonton did?"
"What who did where and when?"
"Remember, the first time I came to visit you? We were walking down the street and we saw someone had stenciled a tiny Geordi La Forge way down at the bottom of this building? And we thought that was weird, but then we kept noticing them wherever we went? And we asked the guy at the bookstore we went into, and he was just like, 'Oh yeah, that's just some guy. Those are everywhere. We don't know why, but it's kind of cool'."
This was about four years ago, and I had COMPLETELY forgotten about it even though at the time I was absolutely fascinated. Is there anyone from Edmonton that can confirm this for me? I remember seeing one on the side of a bus shelter, and others on White Ave, specifically near Daddy-O's. It might not be going on anymore, which I think is a shame because people need little mysteries like that to make life interesting.
I'm thinking I need to find a Spock stencil or something and carry on the legacy.
"Oh, man," I say, "if I had the money and the talent, I would so do that when I retired. Just, you know, travel around and stop in random, out-of-the-way places to build weird little statues or strange little garish houses so that people stumble across them and marvel years later and wonder who built them and why. It would just be like leaving a little bit of mystery for someone's life."
"That sounds like a lot of work." 'Hubs muses. "Why don't you just do what that guy in Edmonton did?"
"What who did where and when?"
"Remember, the first time I came to visit you? We were walking down the street and we saw someone had stenciled a tiny Geordi La Forge way down at the bottom of this building? And we thought that was weird, but then we kept noticing them wherever we went? And we asked the guy at the bookstore we went into, and he was just like, 'Oh yeah, that's just some guy. Those are everywhere. We don't know why, but it's kind of cool'."
This was about four years ago, and I had COMPLETELY forgotten about it even though at the time I was absolutely fascinated. Is there anyone from Edmonton that can confirm this for me? I remember seeing one on the side of a bus shelter, and others on White Ave, specifically near Daddy-O's. It might not be going on anymore, which I think is a shame because people need little mysteries like that to make life interesting.
I'm thinking I need to find a Spock stencil or something and carry on the legacy.
I AM the evil bastard!
everywhere!
- here's what I could find on your La Forge art...
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