2026 Miscellany #13

These giant wooden chairs are spreading.  This is the first one i've seen with a step stool.

Seen on a tent on Cuyahoga Fairgrounds.

No idea if this says something, but looks good.

King Ludwig II of Bavaria. Carl Jara sand sculptor.
His wedding was the first Oktoberfest.

Perun jumping for joy in a splash pad.

red nuts

Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain. Cuyahoga Fairgrounds. 

fotos Labor Day weekend

Karma with carnation

Weekend mornings are the best time to go for a foto safari, a federal holiday — even better. 

carnation in the sand

Now painted pink, previously red at a Mexican restaurant in Lakewood Ohio — Hola!

Since last visit, more work see.  Looks like there will be a mini park in Collinwood (Cleve).

lights were on midday

Guy in Lakewood has an odd to do list.

Alex Senna. Small Giants. Cleveland. 2024. This was to be here for a year.

Chuck Berry & Aretha Franklin 6 September about noon, Eduardo Kobra mural.

Elvis has been placed on the building,
Edouardo Kobra painter foto morning 7 September.

The fourth early rock 'n roller will be Wanda Jackson.  

Cleveland has art

 

Tifereth Israel, Willson Avenue Temple 1894-1924
Mount Zion Congregational 1924-1940
a Friendship Baptist 1940-2018?

It burned on August 21st, and demolition of outer walls was done quickly. This is the next morning, since then the arch was knocked down. The fire was started in several spots by three young people.  Only the name of a 19 year old has been made public, John McManamon. A foto was placed on the internet, and a photographer confirmed it was of the interior. He had taken fotos there previously. There was a grand piano & a modern casket. A lot was left behind. Yeah, the building was burned for shits & giggles. 

Victor Quiñonez (MARKA27).  “My Pride Is Not a Crime / Mi Orgullo No Es Crimen”. 2026. Eastman Branch of Cleveland Public Library.

A bullet went through the face of a bust of Taras Shevchenko in the Ukrainian Cultural Garden of Cleveland. The statue is not bronze, in the 1960s much bronze was taken from the gardens. This may have been painted fiberglass. Shevchenko was a painter and poet, and a former serf. Statues of Shevchenko have been vandalised in several countries. This act in Cleveland was reported in June. 

That yellow bicycle is a symbol for the Tour de France. The electric rent a scooters were placed to be ready for Sunday past yearly Cultural Gardens' festival.

Just newly finished mural by Arlin Graff of swallows is on a wall behind a bus shelter in Cleveland Heights.

This was on the street across from the mural, exhaust from the underground.

Centrum Kolossio

Well, me and the crew were at Canal Basin in the Flats Saturday to see David Biro's art installation of laser cut plywood, Centrum Kolossio.  David Biro's work visiting Canal Basin Park.  He did get a building permit. The central theatre looks to me like a bridge.  He has had at least two others, in the past, in front of the family's business on Detroit.  see 2020  2021. This one was earlier displayed in the year in Miami Florida. 

This was on the west bank of the Cuyahoga, in easy view of the skyscrapers of downtown, and some of the apartment buildings in the flats. Nearby rowers were on the river. A few people were walking their dogs. The parking lots were virtually empty, and we were free to park in the few allowable spots on the street, near bridges. A lot of money was spent nearby, but the open space still looked dumpy.

Four small rooms are within the outer walls, and electric lights are within wooden lanterns. The lights come out at night, and the whole thing will be up for two weeks. Biro did get a building permit, and it is posted on the work.

 almost an Egyptian motif of birds

detail of a bit of the wood filigree

jack knife bridge, and smoke stacks of an old power house