One last post before all of 2011′s sand runs through the hour-glass! Here are a few of the many rubber duckies that I have come across at the Falls of the Ohio over the years. I thought it would be a fun way to end the year. If you would like to see more ducky [...]
Archive for December, 2011
Rubber Ducky Collection
Posted in Absurd, animal art works, Art, art and environment, birding, collections, creativity, Falls of the Ohio, fresh water, Louisville, Kentucky, Ohio River, unusual collection, tagged Art, artistatexit0, bath tub duck, collecting, Falls of the Ohio, flots, found objects, lost and found, Louisville, Kentucky, nature, plastic toy, rubber duck, rubber ducky collection on December 30, 2011 | 10 Comments »
Styro-Snowman and the Park of Misfit Toys
Posted in Absurd, art and environment, Falls of the Ohio, public art, recycled art, sculpture, Styrofoam, watershed, tagged Art, artist at exit 0, Beach combing, Falls of the Ohio, found materials, Kentucky, Louisville, nature, recycled art, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, sculpture, Styrofoam, unusual snowman on December 24, 2011 | 10 Comments »
The holiday season is upon us and I’m here at the Falls of the Ohio to renew one of my Christmas traditions. For many years, I have been creating and sending out card images from stuff I’ve made or found washed up here. This post documents what I came up with on this particular visit [...]
Figure with Life Vest
Posted in Absurd, collections, creativity, environmental art, Falls of the Ohio, public art, recycled art, sculpture, Styrofoam, watershed, tagged Absurd, Art, artist at exit 0, Falls of the Ohio, found objects, Kentucky, Louisville, material culture, nature, photography, sculpture, Styrofoam on December 18, 2011 | 3 Comments »
As expected we set a new yearly rain total record and we still have time left in 2011. At the moment, we have had 66 inches of rain breaking the old mark by two inches. I waited for the river to go down a bit before returning to the Falls of the Ohio. The water [...]
Pig Boy’s Plastic Nightmare
Posted in Absurd, Art, art and environment, creativity, ecosytem, Ohio River, public art, recycled art, Styrofoam, watershed, tagged Absurd, Art, artistatexit0, dreams, driftwood, Falls of the Ohio, found art, found objects, nightmares, photography, plastic, plastic bottles, recycled materials, scavenging, Styrofoam on December 4, 2011 | 6 Comments »
The Ohio River continues to rise and as this year draws to a close…it will go down as either our wettest ever or close to the top. At the time of this writing, we are more than twenty inches above normal rainfall. During a usual year, we can expect a bit more than forty inches [...]
