Big Boy Video and Train Graffiti

 

Today was a frantic day at work. I walked with Seabird and managed to stay awake during our afternoon afternoon meeting, the sort of meeting where you just listen to someone else drone on and on. I thought the summer would be quieter, but with year-end coming, everyone needs everything done NOW.

As promised, here is the video Travalon and I made of Big Boy:

I know I'd already posted my version here yesterday, but I wanted to get something on the blog right away, and it's our tradition to post both our versions, from my phone and his good camera. 

Speaking of Travalon's good camera, he took it to the wood duck pond this morning, but there was no action there. He went to my future parking lot and got lots of photos of train graffiti:

This is a commemorative 35th anniversary engine:

What's this next one? Is it racist or just a cartoon? I thought a lot of the graffiti artists are black, so maybe it's not supposed to be racist, just a self-portrait? Thoughts?

This one isn't very colorful, but it's a kind of cool optical illusion of a door in the side of the train car with something maybe falling out of it:

I just think these artists are so creative and talented. I enjoy this much more than the modern art they have in museums, which is often along the lines of a shovel stuck in a pile of dirt, and then the title is: "The Travails of Mankind." I could do that. This train graffiti, I'm not sure I could do as good a job of that. It's some real talent.

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