Ever find yourself standing in line waiting for your food, when suddenly you look at nearby tables and see something like this?
I didn’t think so. For a minute, I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me. This was a burger joint, where you expect formica tabletops or worse. I thought it was fake mosaic at first, but it was the real thing. Since the place was mostly empty, I was able to shoot five more tables in addition to the Twinkies above….
Levis jeans
Woodstock
This one took me a minute to figure out. It’s the logo for MTV.
The Rolling Stones
Nestlé’s Quik
I do love finding touches of whimsy in unexpected places. Glad I had the iPhone with me.
Hope your weekend was memorable….
{carole}
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These are really amazing!
Thoughts . . . the juxtaposition of “Woodstock” with the others interests me. “Woodstock” is something of a symbol of the counterculture. “Twinkies” is one exemplar of the culture that the counterculture was countering. Same for “Quik”, but maybe not as much, but both were/are corporate giants that easily symbolized the prevailing culture. “Levi’s” was an example of the (corporate) culture making big bucks off people who wanted to be counterculture; to fit in, one had to conform to the non-conformists and be sure to wear Levi’s jeans. And there’s The Rolling Stones: just repeat what I just wrote but replace jeans with rock-n-roll-on-wax, and voila — big corporate bucks rolling in from counterculturists’ pockets. “MTV”? — very sure there’s no longer the same counterculture any more, since we’re 20teens and no longer 1960s — fifty years now??? — but other than that pesky detail, merely update the wax and there ya go!
Oh — as for the photography, superb choice of subject, great photography as usual. Thanks, Ms. Pearl.
I too thought the choice for designs was very interesting. Would love to find out who the artist is and more about him/her. They’re definitely into nostalgia.
How fun! I love the colors and the mosiac designs. I can relate to a few of the design except MTV and Woodstock. Too young for Woodstock and not allowed to watch MTV. How was your lunch?
Lunch was fantastic, Jeanne. It was the cheeseburger with sweet potato fries that I posted a while back.
Nice photos !
Thanks for stopping by. Your photos are really wonderful.
What a nice touch, so original. Thank you for sharing these.
I almost forgot I took these, Caroline. Taking a photo every day tends to make for quite a pileup sometimes. 🙂
I want a table like those!
I think I do too!
How cool is that? So creative. You can find creativity anywhere – even a burger joint – if you keep your eyes open. Thanks for sharing these photos!
Happy to do it. 🙂
It’s art for the sake of art. I love it.
So true. I emailed the owner for the artist’s name. Hopefully I’ll hear back, because I’m really curious now.
What cool tables – I love stumbling across things like this 🙂
It was truly a wonderful surprise.
Your sunflower shot is beautiful!
Adore these! I’m doing a “coffee” themed series of paintings for a cafe and now am considering a stained glass look….thanks!
Always happy to provide any kind of inspiration. I look forward to seeing your work.
For some reason, I’m craving a Twinkie now….
I know! I had to stop looking at that table. Swore I’d never eat another one many years ago.
What amazing arts.I like all of them.:)
Cool. 🙂