Weekend Roundup

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Seating on King St. Toronto

Seating in Hamilton ON

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 Sculpture Saturday

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Manhattan New York

Lunch atop a Skyscraper (New York Construction Workers Lunching on a Crossbeam) is an iconic photograph taken in 1932 of 11 construction workers seated along a crossbeam of the ironwork of the RCA building, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, in Manhattan, New York City.

The photograph depicts 11 men eating lunch, seated on a girder with their feet dangling 840 feet (260 meters) above the New York City streets. The photograph was taken on September 20, 1932, on the 69th floor of the RCA Building during the last months of construction. According to archivists, the photograph was prearranged. Although the photograph shows real ironworkers, it is believed that the moment was staged by Rockefeller Center to promote its new skyscraper. Other photographs taken on the same day show some of the workers throwing a football and pretending to sleep on the girder. The photo appeared in the Sunday photo supplement of the New York Herald Tribune on October 2, 1932.

Formerly attributed to "unknown", and often misattributed to Lewis Hine, it was credited to Charles C. Ebbets in 2003.

 Source

Top of the Rock at Rockefeller Plaza.

While you wait for the elevator you get a photo taken (if you wish) showing your party sitting on a beam based on this famous photo.

We did.

Later that night we passed this.

Sergio Furnari click to see his fun website.

Information found here.

Decades later a poster of the photograph hung in shop window on Fifth Avenue when sculptor Sergio Furnari walked by. The Sicilian-born Furnari was new to America and the image captivated him. The faces of the workers—mostly immigrants—spoke to him.

“I know how they felt,” he later recalled to New York Times reporter Leslie Chess Feller, “I looked at those faces and knew I had to capture them in clay. Like me, they were immigrants, poor people who worked hard.”

Furnari started out creating a life-size version of the photograph. The figures were executed in terra cotta, cement, fiberglass and metal. One-by-one the completed statues were welded to an I-beam which Furnari attached to his truck. The work in progress was exhibited around the city, wherever the artist would park.

As he worked on the astonishing sculpture he said “Those men were real people. Each one has, I think, a soul. I feel it when I sculpt them, when I touch their faces and make their features come out of the clay. It’s like I keep their spirit alive.”

Furnari called his work “Lunchtime on a Skyscraper—A Tribute to America’s Heroes.” That title would take on new significance on the morning of September 11, 2001.

The work was nearly finished. Only one figure was left to complete. That morning Furnari and his wife, illustrator Julia Licht, watched the collapse of the World Trade Towers from their apartment window.

Within the next few weeks working heroes would have a new meaning for Furnari and his sculpture.

The work was completed in October. Meanwhile hundreds of workmen toiled in the still-smoldering ruins of Ground Zero. “The twin towers were made by the ironworkers, and it was the ironworkers that had to remove the whole steel out of Ground Zero,” he later related.

Cee's Fun Foto Challenge

Cee's Fun Foto Challenge

2 items or the number two

2019 - Mazatlan Mexico

Two tiny musicians.

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St. John New Brunswick

Crowds gather here to have that "Sit By Me" experience.

There are eleven larger-than-life human figures represented in the sculpture. There is a man reading the newspaper complete with cigarette dangling from his mouth, or hop on the motorcycle. Interact with the mother and child and Keith or just stand in the crowd of "Waiting People"

It is transcribed as follows:

"My hope is that people will be involved and interested in the sculpture, and get to know these (wooden) people as well as I do."
John Hooper (1927-2006)

Also by John Hooper, Time Pieces created in 1984 sits at the Market Square entrance.

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Random seats around Toronto.

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November 2018 - Toronto

Eaton Centre

A Photo a Week

A Photo a Week Get Your Ducks in a Row

SHARE A PHOTO OR TWO (OR MORE) OF SUBJECTS IN A LINE OR ROW.

Funny enough, before I knew what this challenge was, I had been looking at San Miguel de Allende photos for Thursday Doors and saw the perfect pictures for this!

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Dublin Ireland

In honour of St. Patrick's Day this weekend I have these two shoppers taking a rest to chat.

Dubliners love to give nicknames to their public sculptures. So the Two Women on Lower Liffey Street are known as “the hags with the bags.”

Meeting Place by Jackie McKenna

It shows two women chatting together while sitting on a stone bench. At their feet are two shopping bags, also sculpted in bronze. One of the bags is from Arnotts, the oldest and largest department store in Dublin, which has its flagship store on nearby Henry Street. Shortly after the statue’s inauguration, one of the bags was stolen. It was replaced, and now both are securely attached to the ground.

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Poking through archives.

2011 - Myrtle Beach

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January 2019 - El Quelite Mexico

Around town.

Carol's not too sure about this one.

She's Been Waiting a Long Time

Six Word Saturday

January 2019 - Mazatlan Mexico

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December 2018 - Copala Mexico

What are these, you may ask.  You can sit here as you wait for the bus.

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December 2018 - Mazatlan Mexico

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November 2018 - Barcelona Spain

In the cloister of the Santa Maria del Pi.

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November 2018 - Spain


Cafes dotted every plaza around the country.

Madrid

Valencia

Barcelona

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2018 - Toronto ON

The city places Muskoka (Americans call them Adirondacks) chairs around the city. 

At Harbourfront

On King St.

Humber Bay on Lake Ontario

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Toronto ON

The "Endless Bench" can be found at Sick Kids Hospital on University Ave.

*Donated by artist Lea Vivot to the Hospital for Sick Children in memory of her son Morris in appreciation for the excellent care received by him and countless others from the hospital staff.
May our children play in peace.
Engraved on the bench are 476 messages of love, hope, and inspiration contributed to the artist by members of the cultural, scientific, political, and other walks of life from all over the world.

*Text from "Outdoor Art in Toronto"

There are two words for peace in Irish:

síocháin, meaning "peace" as in the opposite of "war"; and

suaimhneas, meaning "peace" as in "tranquility, ease of spirit".

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Toronto ON

Union Station - under forever construction!

On Roncesvalles Ave.

Kensington Market