L.A. County Fair, 2011, part 1
Yeah, I'm still catching up on things. It'll be interspersed with new photography as I go.
Broommaker to the stars, would you believe?
Yeah. Including those stars.
The paper people there are my brother and his wife, who now live in China and (though they have plenty of adventures there) also live vicariously through their "flat" versions here in California. They'll probably crop up now and then.
His friend, who makes these beautiful wrought iron handles, also does work on the ships used in the Pirates movies.
The guy in charge of the neon exhibit turned out to have lived across the street from my Mom when he was a kid. Naturally Flat Paul and Flat Jillanne came out to pose with him, and also for an odd animated neon display having to do with a Chinese story.
Spinning thread seemed to be a theme at the fair. The art museum was devoted to it, and over near the broommaker a spinning competition was held, including both wheels and drop-spindles. This, in the museum, is a collapsible spinning... device. Wheel? Ingenious, whatever it is.
A tiny, high-tech, ultra-light drop spindle.
A collapsible "great wheel" made from bicycle parts.
Click a pic for a bigger version.
Broommaker to the stars, would you believe?
Yeah. Including those stars.
The paper people there are my brother and his wife, who now live in China and (though they have plenty of adventures there) also live vicariously through their "flat" versions here in California. They'll probably crop up now and then.
His friend, who makes these beautiful wrought iron handles, also does work on the ships used in the Pirates movies.
The guy in charge of the neon exhibit turned out to have lived across the street from my Mom when he was a kid. Naturally Flat Paul and Flat Jillanne came out to pose with him, and also for an odd animated neon display having to do with a Chinese story.
Spinning thread seemed to be a theme at the fair. The art museum was devoted to it, and over near the broommaker a spinning competition was held, including both wheels and drop-spindles. This, in the museum, is a collapsible spinning... device. Wheel? Ingenious, whatever it is.
A tiny, high-tech, ultra-light drop spindle.
A collapsible "great wheel" made from bicycle parts.
Click a pic for a bigger version.