Saturday, May 10, 2008
Art Car Parade 2008
Here's what was going on in Houston today. The Art Car Parade has been going on for a long time and it gets fancier and fancier every year. I went with Kristy. I brought my digital camera and she brought a Holga, which, as she put it, "has the better built in," so she's pretty convinced her photos will be ... better. I'm not letting that deter me, however, from posting what I got. Besides, Kristy also brought a digital.
The photos are really in reverse chronological order just because I am too lazy to resort them. By the way, it was hot as Houston today. Hence the beer. Appropriately, we were drinking Lone Star.
A couple of close ups of the details on some cars.
Mother and daughter volunteers and a "driver" of a diesel tractor that was tricked out as an art truck.
One car had a hole all the way through it and another was a disco ball, covered entirely with glass. Driving near it on the freeway must be fun.
The parade ended at a new park in Houston, where these girls were having a fairly inappropriate time. The dental car had literally everything associated with dentistry (except maybe the gas).
It's Texas, and we like our livestock big here.
Yep, that's a port-a-potty on wheels.
Two of my favorites. The people on the missile car were allegedly housewives from Crawford, Texas, perhaps celebrating the Jenna Bush wedding. The giant head was the Opera Car. the guy in the mouth was actually a singer with the Houston Grand Opera and he was pretty awesome.
The doubleheader car was just that: each half has a steering wheel and an axle that moved. The car could go in virtually any direction. I'm hoping this won some sort of engineering award.
1 comment:
"hot as Houston" is my new favorite phrase.
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