Trash Tuesday: Where Getting it Cheap is Part of the Esthetic #20
by Pasadena Adjacent
This grade school ensamble is the result of a lucky dive I took in the parking lot of a Korean Presbyterian church. The church is located in Temple city on a street called Halifax. It’s also where I spend my Tuesday evenings in the company of friends to discuss our shared plight over John Barleycorn. I made the ceramic vase you see atop the desk. The chair once belonged to artist Chris Werner’s daughter Ellie (she’s now a junior at Berkley) The monkey puppet was a gift from Miss Havisham for introducing her to the Elderly Queen. Things didn’t work out so now she goes by Mademoiselle Gramophone
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In my neighborhood, trash collection takes place on a Tuesday (I can hear a truck now). The night before is a good time to canvas the neighborhood for castaways. It’s great sport. I use Tuesday on my blog to post my treasures. The phrase “getting it cheap is part of the esthetic’ was coined by my photographer friend D Gordon
Where is the lamp from?
The lamp is from my grand Aunt Blanche and Grand Uncle Grover. They lived on Wilshire Blvd with seven chihuahuas.
Again with the cleverness. I like how you’ve framed it. And I like the puppet.
A shrine of sorts.
For anyone who spent time as a child, this tableau will seem sweetly familiar. The colors of the desk brought back good memories of my old classrooms. The school-desk pushed to the back corner was a favorite tactic of many a teacher when meting out punishment and to quarantine a disruptive student. I’m sure we all heard the classic directive from a harried teacher: “Don’t laugh at D., it just encourages him.” Truer words were never spoken but it never seemed to work…like a Judge telling the jury to disregard that last statement. Yeah, right.
Amy Lowell couldn’t spell and she was brillaint.
The desk would be a great set decoration if they ever film the live version of the “Jetsons” cartoon.
I’m having new wood floors put in. Can I have the rug?
What do you do with them?
I have a new tile that doesn’t suck
Still life with vase & monkey puppet. It’s downright chic esp. with lack of clutter.
Whose paint brushes? (rhetorical q.)
Any more info on the 2 names?
Castaway Alarm
woke up
cold
no rain
a morning amazingly beautiful
waiting
distracted
by neighboring smells of sizzling swine
worse yet
logging on feels what dreaming holds
a white Dove drowns
a stagnant Pond
Mid-Town G © 2009
>.<
Vanda: for you (hot)
Margaret: I believe framing trash will become a regular feature. It elevates trash to treasure.
AH: Of sorts or an odd choice considering I have no nieces, nephews or children to speak of. Just cats. Congratulations on the tile. I’m looking forward to a vase hopefully in the care of the kiln gods.
D: were you that kid, the class clown, the one we were ordered not to encourage? Bet substitute teachers hated you. Hmmm, I do recall you did a mean lizard. Actually that pinkish birch veneer makes my skin crawl. I keep the surface covered.
Tea Party: Was it because she couldn’t spell or was it because she was the butt of jokes?
QVC: no
John E: 6’4” V built my bed. It stands three feet off the ground so I use the chair to climb on top (aging Tovah has a taller chair). The desk is used as a room separator between the kitchen and living room. I keep a TV on it.
Tash: Chris teaches figure drawing at Otis. Because I mentioned his daughter I did a little creative spelling in order to keep search engines (his students) from trolling my site.
Mid-town-G: After our discussion, I changed the heading of my re-cap of the Pita/Pizza post. You have morphed from a Gangsta to a lawyer and now this …a poet? and your good. You did have fun. Does this mean butthole or is it a sneeze? >.<
This picture makes me happy and sad at the same time. I really love the way you arrange things.
Ahh, I like that lamp. I have a couple of small desk lamps that have a somewhat similar style. I’m not sure if they are originals or recreations, but who cares.
Mid-town G’s poem is so great.
Laurie: staging is important
Vanda: The lamp is probably a recreation circa 1925
Tash: the gangstas got talent
what a great haul! loving the way you put things together…
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