Fine! I'll Blog! Now Back Off!

Alright, alright! I'll blog! There just hasn't been much to blog about the past few weeks. I'm having to dig deep. And there just hasn't been much to be inspired by either. I thought I was on to something yesterday when a friend and I went to the new Freebirds by my Target. It's a build-your-own-burrito place that is hippie themed. In all of their stores they have some character busting out of the wall either on a motorcycle or roller coaster car. This one has the Statue of Liberty, both on the van and inside the store.

This was a new addition I hadn't noticed at the other stores...Pot Brownies! What you can't see is that it looks like it was baked in a pot :-)

At lunch I decided I'd go ahead and do a post I'd been thinking about for a while. A few months ago the Houston city council passed a law banning inflatable characters on top of car dealerships - they feel they're too distracting - as if billboards every 10 feet isn't. So for a while now I've been thinking about driving around and getting shots of all the different inflatables... so I handed Tim the keys to my car and we hit 45 to start shooting. These Presidential busts are at the interchange of 45 and I-10 - and the artist's stuido is right next to my Target. You name the President, he has a bust. They're about 15 feet tall.



So here was the problem with my inflatables idea: it's apparently too windy. You can just make out a guy on a skateboard above the "Sketchers" sign. He's leaning waaaaaay back. All the car dealers along 45 were either out of business or had taken their inflatables down. Bummer. Perhaps another weekend?