Friday, July 23, 2010

Cracker Invader Lands Near You #art

Eat this alien before he eats you. 46 pixels of deliciousness. Anyone got cheez whiz?

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Southern tip of New York City #art

The Brooklyn Heights Promenade.

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

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.

Friday, July 16, 2010

Verrazano Narrows Art and Architecture Project #art

Two crackers at Verrazano Narrows Bridge that connects two burros boroughs; Brooklyn and Staten Island.

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

William Seward - NY vs. AK


William Seward was the 12th Governor of New York, a United States Senator and the United States Secretary of State. He is perhaps best known for purchasing Alaska from Russia - a move ridiculed by most until the gold and oil booms. It is unsurprising that this collector found statues of Seward in both states. The top picture with Seward reaching out for the cracker is from Madison Square Park in New York. It honors his work as a statesman and outspoken abolitionist.

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).