http://www.thenoiseboard.com/index.php?showtopic=184786
This article was sent to me by my good friend Michael Earls, of the illustrious Earls brothers of Murdock St. in Brighton, MA, formerly also of the Boston band scene. Most anyone who knows me knows my soft spot for old signage and business graphics. My paintings on deluzart.com depict many of these bygone and soon-to-be bygone icons of a different era.
Sometimes things just have to go. But I think a lot of these signs are works of art of the type we won't soon see again. Besides being neighborhood landmarks they certainly qualify as public art. In fact they're more interesting than most of the crap that gets funded as public art. That Dunkin' Donuts sign was freaking awesome. It reminds me of the one they used to have by Blue Hill Ave. and Talbot St. from my childhood. I remember getting a dozen donuts for a dollar (that's how old I am!) and walking them up to Vesta Road where I lived.
And I think they need to stay in their place, not moved to some senseless, disjointed exercise in lameness like Neonopolis in Las Vegas. To me, seeing those old bygone signs for casinos and motels past displayed like heads on pikes on the edges of some conquered village is shameful.
Start the crusade for old signage as street sculpture! Don't turn our urban landscape into a bland puddle of corporate sameness.
Paid for by the Tony De Luz for Art Lobbyist Organization.
1 comment:
Hey nitwit....email Mike. I think he wants to commission you to do a painting of this.
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