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birdybelly
Los Angeles, California
Just great, inspiring- a fun medium to work in -How about making some gorgeous, large, books with the best. Or a series of calendars. One from each of the backyard sites or a mixture-either would be cooooooooool. It could be given for PBS fun(d) drives, get some small grants available to the artists- ideas--more, more ideas.... Thanks for the great place to belong.
02/28/2008
cfoster
currently. I am working on a visionary piece due to my total devotion to TAB,the original diet drink by epoxing Tab cans into 20 foot towers that I plan to call the Twin Towers of Tab. totems to pop culture. The cans turn from bright magenta to a frosty pink with sun exposure and make truely amazing solid building tubes. A geodesic dome can easiky be made from 8 can tube.
4/25/07
Tina Wells
Denver, Colo.
Well dont know where to start, my name is tina and i grew up in Simi Valley calif to be exact igrew up in the house that sits directly behind the bottle village. The memories I have would fill a 100 pages!!!It was from 1974thru 1983 . Me and my best friend at the time, Amy. We visited often and helped keep it clean. Some of it I rember to be a little spooky!
We were kids with huge imagination!!
we visited with grandma in her trailer, she told us stories of how the bottle villiage came to be. The thing i do remember the most was the doll room, tooth brushes,all things you could imagine made into art it was really neat to visit last year when I visited calif> I wish I knewthen that I could make App. to see and show my family, wich have all heard stories of our (mine and Amys) adventures!!! I did go to bottle village but it is surrounded by fence and posted no trespassing! I noticed the damage but did not know what caused it!!It is so cool to see I am now 37, Married, two grown kids and moved to colo. in 1993. I moved From Simi Valley to Palmdale in 1983.
12/19/06
Cynthia
Walla Walla, WA
Wonderful site! Could you please include some pink flamingos amongst the other "critters?" I think they're just as iconic as the garden gnome, and would really add so much to the lovely paradise backgrounds. Thanks and best wishes...
8/16/06
mike leiner
cedar key, florida
A good start to help preserve these magical spots through awareness. Should consider Las Pozas in Mexico, a bit of a trip but well worth it:
www.junglegossip.com
5/24/06
Rodney C. Stoick
Laurel, MT
What an interesting site! I wonder, have you ever heard of the Thunder Mountain compound in Nevada? Or the "Elaphantanti" site in Arizona...a spoof on "Arcosanti", Paulo Solari's vision? Very similar to the "Paradise Gardens" listing you have here, but much larger, the Spirit Mountain site was built by a Native American Viet Nam Vet who wanted to bring the Great Spirit closer to earth, and is quite a powerful visit. The Elephantani site, near Cottonwood, AZ, is full of huge Dreamweaver sculptures and tunnelled rooms lit by colored glass fragments (we shot part of a film called "The Brothel" there (Prod/Dir. Amy Waddell, daughter of John Henry Waddell, internationally known sculptor)
5/24/06
Allen Jost
Naples FL
A fascinating site but I was sad to see that it missed one of the greatest I have ever seen - Solomons Castle built entirely from scrap and junk other people discarded. See: www.solomonscastle.com for a real treat.
4/11/06
Linda Margolin
You need to check out the scullptures and house/studio/garden/property of Viktr Tinkle (he is a found-obj artist who makes incredible Rube Goldberg contraptions too. His wife, Judy is a renowned quilter). They are north of Toronto Canada. Amazing. A true visionary artist.
7/29/05
k.hall
What a fabulous idea for interaction in the arts. Since most "installation art" is site-specific and available material based you gave us a diverse assortment. I am sending my art students to the site to PLAY! Thank you, PBS
5/23/05
Nick Krasnic
New York, NY
Check out this true visionary artist named Alex Grey (www.alexgrey.com) and the upcomming documentary. Thanks.
Nick Krasnic
Director/Producer
www.InspiredMindfilms.com
5/6/05
Ruth Karr
Pompton Plains, New Jersey
I just loved playing with this site, but I have to echo another's comment that I couldn't access the whole screen. It was hard to manipulate the objects because the controls disappeared off the bottom of the screen, and I couldn't choose other backgrounds, It was frustrating.
4/1/05
Dan
St Paul, MN
this site is terrible. i don't find any of the backyards to be anything i would consider paradise. it is so depressing to see what people pass for art these days.
3/22/05
Thought you might enjoy seeing a Kansas version of a backyard paradise (see below). Saying it's very different would be an understatement!
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/KSLUCeden.html
3/14/05
Linda Vista
Charlotte
This site is THE BOMB! A place to visit again and again. I love that the outsider artists' environments are global and not limited to the US. Thank you! My only wish would be that I could see the bottom edge when I'm making my assorted 'paradise's. Thanks again, Linda V
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