{"id":331,"date":"2003-07-23T23:07:50","date_gmt":"2003-07-24T03:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2003\/07\/23\/moss-street-paint-in\/"},"modified":"2007-02-16T01:58:59","modified_gmt":"2007-02-16T05:58:59","slug":"moss-street-paint-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2003\/07\/23\/moss-street-paint-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Moss Street Paint-in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a254\"><\/a>  Last Saturday was the annual <a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/aggv.bc.ca\/programs-mspi.asp\">Moss Street Paint-In<\/a> here in Victoria.  Moss Street is around the corner from my house, so even I didn&#8217;t have an excuse not to go.  It was a lot of fun: tremendous crowds, the art was a mixed bag (<a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mileslowry.ca\/sculpture\/anu.html\">Miles Lowry<\/a> stood out), and there were a couple of life-moments that jumped out of the art frame.    First, there&#8217;s the guy on a front stoop chatting up a lovely woman; behind him sits a man with a make-shift sign, complete with arrow pointing directly at the chatting man&#8217;s head.  The sign says: &#8220;Smart, funny, intelligent MAN looking for a positive relationship.&#8221;  Everybody (women) who walked by the house wanted to talk to this guy!  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"364\" height=\"287\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/yulelog\/mossman.jpg\" \/>  Next up, this guy with his Harlequin Calf, er, Harlequin Great Dane, caused a stir.  The dog was more painted than some of the art.  I wonder if his human has a snow-shovel-sized pooper-scooper at home?  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"449\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/yulelog\/mossdog.jpg\" \/>  Some artists brought their own models for live drawing:  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"559\" height=\"342\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/yulelog\/mossmodels.jpg\" \/>  And some decided to draw directly on the sidewalk, irrespective of models, transience, permanence, or material gain:  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/yulelog\/mosssidewalk.jpg\" \/>  I liked this last one, Michelangelesque bodies on the floor instead of the ceiling.  The car tire-tracks add a particularly modern, insouciant touch.    The people-watching was the best part of the afternoon.  I kept wondering what happened to that chatting couple <em>and<\/em> what the relationship between the man holding the sign and the man being designated was&#8230;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday was the annual Moss Street Paint-In here in Victoria. Moss Street is around the corner from my house, so even I didn&#8217;t have an excuse not to go. It was a lot of fun: tremendous crowds, the art was a mixed bag (Miles Lowry stood out), and there were a couple of life-moments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yulelogstories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}