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Photos in the genre of Grant Hutchinson’s Splorp.com

   (2007.01.14)

Sometime in the mists of the ’90s, I wrote an article for Publish on large-format printing. I became something of an expert, and I really wanted to see bus wraps used for some kind of artistique purpose, particularly if applied to a postmodernist vehicle like an Orion II. It never happened. Babs Kruger’s bus wrap (1997; later co-opted) was a disaster: Never send a polemical feminist artist to do a typographer’s job.

Nonetheless:

Rear half of bus advertises Centennial College in solid patches of magenta, chartreuse, and blue and orange

In order, I would use the current lexicon to describe these colours as violetred3, yellow3, lightslateblue, and sandybrown.

   (2007.01.11)
Display cases have row upon row of model soup-can labels atop actual dispensers of soup cans
   (2007.01.09)
Upholstered cart on tile floor holds upturned chrome posts of the sort that hold velvet ropes together
   (2007.01.08)
Brown pickup truck with bright purple windshield wiper
   (2007.01.05)

In an “Australian” winter.

Outdoor wooden slat wall is covered with a mural of four fir trees, three of which pop out of the irregular top edge
   (2007.01.03)

Or is it a lyre?

Cracked tiles on wall are painted with a lute (solid base, central column, two arms at sides that curve upward and finish in knobs at the top of the column)
   (2006.12.31)
Orange-and-yellow El Camino, with HEAVY DUTY CYCLES written on the door in outlined blackletter and matching orange wheels, sits on a rainy street

(Q.v., inter alia.) And that will be it for ’06, people.

   (2006.12.31)
Brown (‘red’) dachshund on leash on raised platform of playground
   (2006.12.30)
Corner of burgundy car shows a Z logo in a circle behind angled rear window as a red streetcar whizzes by

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