Author Archive
November 24, 2016 by tomdalzell
Holiday Field Trip – Laurel Skye – Out of the Rubble
Happy Thanksgiving from Quirky Berkeley. It is a holiday and so we continue with our holiday tradition of taking a quirky field trip. Ready??? Reminder though – click on a photo to get full screen. All these demand it. Take you time. Click them! My second stop when in Eureka was in Arcata at the home […]
November 19, 2016 by tomdalzell
The Disappearing CIL Mural
Plans exist to demolish the original headquarters of the Center for Independent Living at 2539 Telegraph and to build a “car-free” 5- to 6-story, 70-unit mixed-use complex on the site with about 6,100 square feet of ground floor commercial space. The Berkeley Center for Independent Living opened in 1972, guided by a philosophy of disability that holds: Disabled […]
November 12, 2016 by tomdalzell
Small World on Fifth Street – The Rocks Fall Up
The first thing I noticed in front of 1422 Fifth Street were the stacked stones They may be called cairns, I’m not sure. A cairn is a human-made pile or stack of stones. There are lots of them here. Somebody has got the balance thing down. And then I noticed the trapezoid-ish raised-bed sand-box-not-sand. […]
November 5, 2016 by tomdalzell
Conny Bleul’s Not-Public Art
I have previously posted on Conny Bleul’s public art. You will recognize what I am talking about, either from her murals at the Berkeley Marina or the folk art in front of her home on Marin, just below Colusa. Here I will show you some of her non-public art. Mostly. There are a few […]
October 30, 2016 by tomdalzell
Reduplication – Simple List
For the Reduplicators playing at home, here is a simple A to Z list of the terms collected so far, excluding the adult/rude terms. There are currently 513 words and phrases on this list. I am happy to add any that you suggest. The Reduplicator who asked for the simple list is probably better […]
October 29, 2016 by tomdalzell
Ken Stein’s Berkeley Buttons
Berkeley was once all about buttons. I too was once all about buttons. When I left the United Farm Workers in 1980, I had one of the best collections of United Farm Workers buttons around. Photos of my collection can be seen here. It’s all about me! I recently posted about Ken Stein’s collection […]
October 22, 2016 by tomdalzell
Rogue Little Libraries
If you hadn’t seen a Little Free Library a year ago, you probably have by now. Little Free Library is an international organization that started in 2009. The deal is – you buy a little structure, pre-made or to be assembled, to serve as a free book exchange. By the summer of 2016, there were […]
October 15, 2016 by tomdalzell
Ken Shapiro’s Suspended Airplanes Joy
Cars in the air and planes from the ceiling suspended. Planes with wingspans of 8 and 10 feet. Quirky to da max. You will find the cars in the air and planes from the ceiling suspended at Precision Peoples Car Repair, 1346 San Pablo at Camelia. The man behind Precision Peoples and the planes is […]
October 8, 2016 by tomdalzell
Tyler Hoare: The Bay as Gallery
Here is the current work of Tyler Hoare that you probably know the best. These large airplane sculptures are what we know best of the work of Tyler Hoare. Until recently there was a third such work to be seen in the garden courtyard of NIAD in Richmond: This triplane will soon be shown […]
October 1, 2016 by tomdalzell