I’ve been considering collecting pictures of beautiful doors, but look! Look, somebody already is, and better than I ever would’ve! http://beautiful-portals.tumblr.com/
I always want to say magic door, Doctor, and here you are wasting a golden opportunity…
A Little Bit of Magic
This is a 6-inch tall door at the bottom of a tree at Lake Harriet in Minneapolis. People of all ages leave around 1500 notes behind the door every year, and every single one of them is answered. Each reply ends with, “I believe in you.” No one has seen the elf, but he’s known as “Mr. Little Guy”I want to visit this!
Nice writeup at The Tender Blog
And the first swing installation project they were talking about.
Scott’s plea for artistic contribution
Side note: Scott is a the professor of sculpture at Yale and his whole classes voted to do this project. Yale doors are like regular doors but fancier.
Scott’s portfolio as well as a couple other contributing artist’s:
http://www.scottbraun.com/slide.html
A picture of a baby cuttlefish
A local street art site kind enough to say some nice things to me
An art gallery that featured the project on their news blog
Side note: Click that first link to their gallery and check out their current show, the photography of Corey Arnold, a first rate fisherman who also wields a camera— it’s amazing work. Really, he’s awesome.
Laughing Squid was polite enough.
Daily What says it’s the art project of the day. Tomorrow is a macaroni collage.
Oh, an SF art blog. SF has those?
Super Punch points out below my piece that this is far from an original idea.
Nuart calls it Doors of Perception and I regret not using the title.
And lastly, Brooklyn Street Art (they’re national, but based in BK) was sweet enough to email and ask about getting the exclusive rights to the photo essay and/or video of the completed project. They’re great people, so I’m flattered. And they’re the art side of The Huffington Post, so I appreciate the viewership.
Incredible art project here. I wish we had stuff like this in Cardiff!
