SF Sculpture: Three Heads / Six Arms - Poof It's Gone!

I visited SF's Civic Center Plaza Feb. 5, 2011, and snapped this shot of a huge 15-ton, 26-foot tall copper Buddha sculpture by Zhang Huan, entitled Three Heads / Six Arms. It is part of the 30th Anniversary celebration of  San Francisco-Shanghai Sister-City project.  You can watch a slide show of the sculpture being installed on May 4, 2010. You can see this slide show of it being dismantled on February 11, 2011.

SF Murals - Art in Progress #3

Third installation showing the progress of this mural on Sheridan Alley, SF

You can view the earlier, in-progress versions of this mural on my posts from May 2010 and July 2010.

Below, the early sketch work --

-- developed in to this:                        

       

and this      

became

this...    

SF Murals - Art in Progress #2

Is it an oddity of timing or is it Serendipity? I don't remember why I was over there--in that part of town--but it doesn't matter, does it? I spotted this work in progress back in May 2010. Sheridan Alley, near 10th Street. I didn't just find a mural, I found a mural-in-progress. This sort of thing happens to me sometimes. I just have to go with it. Wouldn't you?

The woman, the central and primary figure (so far), has really begun to take form, with many details already complete. See further below for the pictures from May, showing the early rough sketch.

I am especially struck by the change in the eyes, realizing I really like the early eyes best. (and I like the purple blue lips too...)

That's Megan, creating something out of a blank wall.

Telegraph Road - In Shades of Green and Black

Even if you've seen my photos of the familiar Telegraph Road, just outside of Copperopolis on Hwy 4, you'll be as surprised as I was to see the contrast of Green and Black from just the few days between June 24th and July 5th.

I took this photo on the way up to the cabin June 24th, 2010.
Here's what it looked like today on the way home:

The Union Democrat reported that the causes of the grass fire at Telegraph Road remain undetermined. While the palm tree appears to have suffered quite a lot, the native oaks seem to have fared a bit better.

Evidently, the fire did not cross the small seasonal steam along
Telegraph Road, so the Windmill portion of the site was untouched.

Unburnt, yet dry, dry, dry.
The creak of the windmill
made the fire burned area
seem all the more desolate.