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March 5, 2009
Paint Louis
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I was driving around the St. Louis riverfront in October of last year and I stumbled onto this crazy long graffiti wall. Apparently, back in 2000, the mayor sponsored some time of graffiti party where people came from all over the country to try to create the largest graffiti mural in the world or something crazy like that. It was originally titled the "Art of the Flood Wall" project, but later came to be known as "Paint Louis". I drove the length of the wall shooting photos, and measured it to be approximately 2.25 miles long.
For whatever reason, I never got around to posting these shots, but I liked them so much I use one of them as my desktop on my laptop. Wendy asked me about it today and only then did I realize that I'd never shared the photos of these stunning murals painted on the flood wall by the Mississippi River.
These images were captured with a Canon EOS 40D with an image stabilized, ultra-sonic telescopic zoom lens (EF-S 17-85mm f/4.0-5.6 IS USM).
I've posted some of the shots as a 7 Meg (3:36) Adobe Flash slideshow(paint_louis.swf) that you should be able to open and view with any browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc.). To view the slideshow, just click on the photo above.
If you want to view the slideshow as a Windows executable, you can play this version (paint_louis.exe), and it allows you to play, pause, skip forward, etc.
Image post-processing was done in Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended. The slideshow was created using Imagematics Stillmotion Pro.
The soundtrack is Honest Mistake by The Bravery.
Lyrics in extended entry.
Click here to view the other slideshows.
THE BRAVERY
An Honest Mistake
People
They don't mean a thing to you
They move right through you
Just like your breath
But sometimes
I still think of you
And I just wanted to
Just wanted you to know
My old friend...
I swear I never meant for this
I never meant...
Don't look at me that way
It was an honest mistake
Don't look at me that way
It was an honest mistake
An honest mistake
Sometimes
I forget I'm still awake
I fuck up and say these things out loud
My old friend...
I sweat I never meant for this
I never meant...
Don't look at me that way
It was an honest mistake
Don't look at me that way
It was an honest mistake
An honest mistake
Don't look at me that way
It was an honest mistake
Don't look at me that way
It was an honest mistake
An honest mistake
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Posted by Rob Kiser on March 5, 2009 at 9:52 PM
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