Unusual Life

A great example of vernacular architecture from Florida, exact location, unknown.

Bull Dog Cafe

Photo by Joan Romer. On the back lot of the MGM/Disney Studios Park. It was the café that the movie the Rocketeer was filmed.

“Barkitecture” continued here……

The Aurora Ice Museum is the largest year-round ice environment in the world. It is created from over 1,000 tons of ice and snow, all harvested at Chena Hot Springs. Climb an Ice Tower, curl up in a Polar Bear Bed, watch a game of life size chess, or pull up a stool at the Stoli Ice Bar and have a martini pour through a sculpted ice fish into your very own sculpted ice glass.

The Ice Museum is located right outside Fairbanks, AK.

Chena Hot Springs Ice Museum

Chena Hot Springs is also the site of a “Wedding Chapel”. Can you imagine your guests reaction to getting married in a glorified igloo? How cool. The Museum and Stoli Ice Bar and altar

Artist Liz Hickock has re-created San Francisco in Jello. This project consists of photographs and video, which depict various San Francisco landscapes. She makes them by constructing scale models of the architectural elements which she uses to make molds. She then casts the buildings in Jell-O. Similar to making a movie set, she add backdrops, which she often paints, and elements such as mountains or trees, and then she dramatically lights the scenes from the back or underneath. The Jell-O sculptures quickly decay, leaving the photographs and video as the remains.

Elizabeth Hickok

Absolutely AMAZING piece of folk art created by Vladimir Deriugin in Tacoma. Threatened wih lawsuits by the city, he’s put it on the market for $360,000.
Vladimir calls his home constructivist art and said the structure was intended both as an artistic expression and as an advertisement for his sculpture and film business. Read the entire article in the Tacoma New Tribune.

For more photos from different angles, check out KevinFreitas.net

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