
Friday, July 23, 2010
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Las Vegas Cracker Family at Home #art

Marty Walsh owns Trifecta Gallery, at the Arts District, in Las Vegas and she's also the artist for the portrait of the parents. Note the canvas parent crackers are Mom Saltine and Daddy Keebler. Baby Pewter looks just like her mother!
Name: James and Joy Lane
Serial: 3212
Location: Las Vegas Nevada
Serial: 3212
Location: Las Vegas Nevada
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Trick Wolf
Wolves have a storied past and an uncertain future. But one thing is certain - they can't get enough crackers.
Monday, July 19, 2010
John Deere Green

Cracker tracker has had moose before. But somehow this moose is different - being both Canadian and an homage to John Deere. John Deere was a blacksmith who escaped creditors by moving to Illinois. The local cast iron plows were no match for the hard soil of the area - the plows were the same technology used since the Chinese first cast iron plows in 233 BC. The cracker is cast in pewter using a similar gravity casting technique.
Deere wanted to improve on the 2000-year-old process and remembered polishing and sharpening needles for a tailor when he was a kid, so he developed a polished, sharpened steel-bladed plow. It became "The Plow that Broke the Plains" perhaps directly responsible for the dust bowl that ravished the area within 100 years - agricultural reform only happened when the dust reached Washington during the Senate's agricultural reform debate.
Labels:
Agricultural Reform,
Blacksmith,
Canada,
Cast Iron,
Cast Steele,
China,
Dust Bowl,
Hugh Bennett,
Joe Diffe,
John Deere,
Moose,
Sand Casting,
Yukon
Friday, July 16, 2010
Verrazano Narrows Art and Architecture Project #art

Wednesday, July 14, 2010
William Seward - NY vs. AK

She felt that the bottom Seward didn't deserve a cracker. This Seward tops a totem pole in Ketchikan, AK at the Saxman Native Village. This is a totem pole to shame Seward (red ears indicate the statue is of someone being shamed). His disgrace was based on being a guest at a potlatch and not returning the favor. (He received five boat loads of gifts including totem poles and canoes - that certainly deserves more than a thank you note).
Labels:
Ketchikan,
Madison Square Park,
New York,
Saxman Village,
William Seward
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