I suspect Denny Lawhern (and others) were planted in the BHS and Parks and Recreation – by right-wing Belmont Capitalists – who were afraid of what Beatniks and Lesbians would form groups – and take over Twin Pines Park and control Belmont History. I believe there is no trace of Christine Rosamond Benton – the great granddaughter of Carl Janke – in the BHS. She got evicted – or buried. She is the prime candidate for anyone interested in Feminine Anthropology.
Here is the city form one has to fill out in order r to paint a fire hydrant. Is the rules copyrighted, and the photos with red crosses? If not I clalm them as works of art and will run them by my friends Stefan Ein, the founder of Fashion Moda. He sees me as Fashion Moda – West. I thinking these image’s are worth ten thousand each, and the document, $50,000 because there is no greater image of..
ARTISTIC OPPRESSION
What if all this Art Info – fell into the wrong hands?
Stefan is goung to flup when he sees the numbers on the sodewalk that relate to a map. There is a map thst show where one of his cracks are/
CRACK THE CASE
Hagner can be anywhere – in Belmont! RED EX marks the spot. Do a silkscreen of Ylva. Immortalize her. Gone but not forgotten!. A treasure map of our treasure.
If you have been rejected – save your rejection notice. Send an image to me,…braskewitz@yahoo.com
John Presco
Sidewalk Cracks Define the Beautiful Resistance
I’ve done more to promote Beautiful Resistance, than any writer alive or dead! Did I get paid? Nooooooooooooooo! Indeed, I am the Father of Beautiful Resistance. After The Wiccan Threats From Hell, I wanted to take Belle to New York to meet the founder of Fashion Moda, Stefan Eins, whose images of cracks in the urban sidewalk hung in MOMA and other famous museums.
Stefan was looking forward to meeting Belle and I. The Fashion Moda folks loved the image of Lara Roozemond. I wrote a Musical around the blue bicycle I gave Belle. She begs for another one. I will get her another – if she models for me as agreed! I agree to be put in a cage while Belle poses – nude! She can choose her bodyguard. She will ride nude around the cage getting close to my easel. She is Venus ‘The Tease in a Half-shell. Alley will be in a dog outfit, screaming at me. Her mate will be roaring at me.
Jon Presco
The Story Behind Belmont’s Painted Fire Hydrants
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Sep 20, 2018
Updated Nov 21, 2023
Two of Belmont’s decommissioned ‘Happy Hydrants.’ (Suzie Racho/KQED)
After Ben Hilmer and his wife, Sarah, had a baby, he began taking daily walks with his daughter around his Belmont Hills neighborhood. He called this trek “dad loop.” And on “dad loop,” a fire hydrant caught his eye. It’s painted as a patriotic character, sporting a fading blue hat, and red-and-white striped pants.
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Before long, Ben was noticing more and more of these decorated hydrants around town.
“Belmont doesn’t have an established downtown,” he says. “So the hydrants made it feel like a community. It made me proud to be from Belmont.”
Now he wants to know more about the hydrants. He asked Bay Curious: “Who painted the fire hydrants? And when were they painted?”
The Origin Story
We took Ben to visit his friendly local historian: Denny Lawhern. Denny has lived in Belmont more than 50 years, and he says the story of the hydrants goes back to the early 1970s.
The United States was preparing to celebrate its 200th birthday — the Bicentennial — in 1976. Communities around the country hosted parades, fireworks displays and concerts — and a few towns gave their fire hydrants patriotic makeovers. Belmont was among them.
The idea was inspired by a program called “Paint a Plug For America,” which originated in Indiana.
Denny says Belmont was also marking 50 years of cityhood when residents came together to decorate more than 300 of the city’s hydrants.
“When you decided what colors you needed, you came to my house and I gave you little baby-food jars of three colors, or 20 colors, or whatever you needed,” says Judy King, a longtime volunteer with the Belmont Historical Society.
The hydrants even got a plug on KQED’s television show, ArtBeat:
At Belmont’s History Room in Twin Pines Park, Denny shows us three big photo albums documenting the hydrant project.
“I did a Betsy Ross,” Denny says. “And there are probably four to five Betsy Rosses around town, but all of them are different.”
In the albums are a few designs that definitely wouldn’t get the OK today, including a Chinese man in a coolie hat with a Fu Manchu mustache, and a Native American character called “Chief Running Water.” But Denny says, for the most part, the designs focused on the patriotic.
The Hydrants Today
Over the years, due to age or damage, the army of painted hydrants has shrunk. They were almost wiped out completely in the ’90s, when the 1991 East Bay Hills Fire changed state law. All fire hydrants had to be painted in uniform colors to identify water capacity. But Belmont’s “Happy Hydrants” were saved thanks to SB 1437, a bill signed in 1998. It allowed Belmont to use color-coded reflector buttons and curb markings near the decorated hydrants, instead of covering over their dapper duds.
Today, Denny thinks there are only about 50 to 60 of the more than 300 original painted hydrants left. And most are in rough shape. He says that a lot of the painted hydrants were in front of people’s houses, and that upkeep dried up as families moved away.
There have been a few Independence Day paintings after the Bicentennial, but nothing official. Denny hopes they can get enough interest to repaint them for Belmont’s 100th anniversary in 2026.
Disproving Stefan Eins
Stefan Eins has remarked he employs “science” in his work. Other artists have scoffed. I can not prove this is the case, because there is no such animal as Scientific Proof. One can only attempt to, Disprove, because there may be Proof that has not yet arrived.” I believe Stefan has opened a new door, entered into a new field, made a runway for the arrival of New Proof. We must learn to look. Who would suspect a slab of concrete was the center of so much action.
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While the phrase “scientific proof” is often used in the popular media,[13] many scientists have argued that there is really no such thing. For example, Karl Popper once wrote that “In the empirical sciences, which alone can furnish us with information about the world we live in, proofs do not occur, if we mean by ‘proof’ an argument which establishes once and for ever the truth of a theory,”
Today I went to the Springfield Library to return books I had renewed twice. I have been recovering from an operation and saw a window of opportunity, open, and I went for it. I parked my truck next to the huge slab of concrete where upon was held a chalk festival. I started to walk on, when I stopped in my tracks, and turned.
“Are those rain puddles?”
“The physics of liquid formation are the physics of biology,” he said
For some reason, I brought my camera. A voice told me to. I walked on to the concrete surface – and gasped! I was surrounded by Land Clouds. They were grazing – like sheep. I began to snaps photos. The TIMING had to be right. The rain came in the night. The sun rises in the morning and dries most of the concrete surface. The sun is coming in and out of the right amount of clouds in the sky. The artist, arrives. The observer, is here. The awareness I received from my friend, is…….working? What is working? I considered the science in Mirrors. Then I saw the church steeple. Is this God, Mother Nature, or, Pure Science – at work. Are these God’s random canvases that he lay down so he can execute his Skyscapes – with upside down Trees? To the Creator-Artist, they are right side up!
I had suggested in other blogs, Stefan had somehow shown up at the chalk fest, and did his thing. In an e-mail he said her might show up.
“Who knows?”
Philosophers, such as Karl R. Popper, have provided influential theories of the scientific method within which scientific evidence plays a central role.[6] In summary, Popper provides that a scientist creatively develops a theory which may be falsified by testing the theory against evidence or known facts. Popper’s theory presents an asymmetry in that evidence can prove a theory wrong, by establishing facts that are inconsistent with the theory. In contrast, evidence cannot prove a theory correct because other evidence, yet to be discovered, may exist that is inconsistent with the theory
“This is the ‘Monkey Donkey’ thing,” he said. “It’s monkey rides donkey. Totally random. That in itself is totally amazing. I did this and this happened. This is miraculous to me.”
Is Stefan, God, or Baal? Like the movie ‘The Field of Dreams’ Mr.Eins loves this slab of concrete – and is able to get to it by means of “Another Dimension”‘ But, is this science?
I was totally emersed in thought. If I was deep in the woods, I could not be more alone. I took three photographs of the same pool, and noticed something. Is that a comet? A Jet? A UFO?
Then, they came, these beautiful people. They dispersed onto the concrete canvas. Some had pieces of paper.
“What the hell?”
On walls and window sills, and tucked into neat stacks, are pieces that deal with “the physics of liquid formation,” as he calls some of his earlier work. The pieces were influenced by his long association with leading graffiti artists at Fashion Moda.
He realized that the spots left by quick spray bursts looked lifelike. One resembles a group of tiny, fluorescent pink horseshoe crabs. In another piece, he let green paint flow into white, resulting in a latticework resembling moss.
“The physics of liquid formation are the physics of biology,” he said. “This is a liquid formation. But it is also moss. Same thing. That is why I became an artist, to investigate and find new bounds of knowledge.”
He goes to the narrow hallway and hauls out a slab of plywood onto which he had let brown paint flow.
“This is the ‘Monkey Donkey’ thing,” he said. “It’s monkey rides donkey. Totally random. That in itself is totally amazing. I did this and this happened. This is miraculous to me.”
In this video we have a The New Genesis and prophecy of what is yet to be. What I call amebas, are puddles of water that contains the Life Forms of the Mind. From the remains of a chalk drawing a new dimension is overlayed on a reflecting pond.
What is truly extraordinary, is this series of photos. While taking the third shot, I notice a white streak. I lift my camera skyward and take a clear shot. What is that? Is it a bird? A plane? Or a………Super Moda!
I go to see what these students are placing on the ground. They are clear domes that look like flying saucers. They have landed on my private world. They are taking MEASUREMENTS which key to Scientific Experiments. Tonight there’s going to be a meteor shower. One usually looks up to spot a UFO. But, thanks to Stefan, I learned to see things in a different and new way. For the first time in thirty years, I consider myself an artist. I am going to enter the images I captured in a show. I asked Stefan to enter this blog in his show. http://www.o-t-h-e-r-dimensions.info/
“Houston, the Eagle has landed!”
Our Mars Machines had a close encounter with a comet that is seen at 5:00 o clock in a green glow.
“Comet Siding Spring (C/2013 A1) is seen near Mars (the bright object) as a bluish-green orb at the center in this view of the comet’s extremely close flyby of the Red Planet on Oct. 19, 2014. This image was captured by astronomer Nick Howes and colleagues using telescopes at the Siding Spring Observatory.”
What are the odds that it all came together? These students take a measurement once a month, weather permitting. Humans have a sense of TIME which is a science. The timing is impeccable. Ein’s profile is a annual event.
To behold a moving manmade object crossing a pond high in the sky, is a transcendence. That technology put a man on the moon, and a robot on Mars. These puddles are living paintings, even kinetic sculptures when a slight breeze stirs the surface. Remember, there used to be a store on this site, were humans entered and left with merchandise after exchanging currency, a way of counting and measuring. Two years ago the store was torn down, and artists and astronomers have led the way to return this site to nature and science. But more than that this concrete is a Landing Pad for the Muses. These Muses will take us to other solar systems and we will be identified as UFOs and Aliens. But, when the dust of confusion, settles, they will see us for what we are……………Artists!
“Where are you from?”
“The Museum.”
“Where is that?”
“It is the place we store Other Dimensions and our Time Machine. We can create something from nothing. We can see things others can’t see.”
“Can you teach us how to do these things?”
“Yes!”
FLASH: Los Angeles residents better start making their earthquake-preparedness kits — scientists say there’s a 99 percent chance that a quake will rock the city sometime before 2018.
Using radar and GPS to measure the likelihood of an earthquake, experts from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena predict a 5.0-magnitude shaker — or bigger — for the L.A. area.”
When I saw the video of me following the crack, and coming to a mound of cracks and rubble, I wondered if this was a sign of things to come.
These are the Children of the Future. They have come to Springfield’s Stonehenge to calculate when the next Solstice and Equinox is going to be. Stonehenge is humankinds oldest, and most beautiful monument to Science.
In 1969 I declared myself a ‘New Pre-Raphaelite’. On this day, I found ‘The New Proof Brother and Sisterhood’. Don’t you think it is time to massively fund the Arts and Artists, so they may build a Starship? This is how my novel ‘The Gideon Computer’ ends.
https://earthsky.org/tonight/orionid-meteors-are-debris-from-famous-comet-halley/embed/#?secret=eAFknzAjej#?secret=juMUzQge0ZDate:October 20, 2015Source:Royal Astronomical Society (RAS)Summary:For more than 30 years, scientists have argued about a controversial hypothesis relating to periodic mass extinctions and impact craters — caused by comet and asteroid showers — on Earth.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ceJ9Ps0n1c
We are creatures that live amongst the stars. There is no proof there exist other creatures like us. Have I provided proof we must leave, and found another world, perhaps in a New Dimension?
Jon Presco
The Dragon Born Elijah
I have seen signs in heaven, and on earth. I gazed in a puddle of rain water, and beheld a comet. I inquired of a lost mural, and found an astrologer who takes measurements. She once painted a comet, that was sand blasted away. There is a gun, a comet, pointed at Sophia’s head. The master of symbols is decoding as fast as he can. Now I understand why so many have tried to stop me from seeing what I shall see. Disproving the Born Again Elijah, has become an extreme necessity. Was not Elijah taken up in a Chariot of Fire?
Who will go with?
I am a long-haired Merovingian Comet King who wears a Starry Crown. I have been doing genealogies. I have come to lead the children – home! Only I have solved the riddle of Rosamunde, the Queen of the Franks. She is the mermaid – combing her hair while gazing in a mirror. I descend from her. She born me again in a shower of falling stars.
“The word comet derives from the Old English cometa from the Latin comēta or comētēs. That, in turn, is a latinisation of the Greek κομήτης (“wearing long hair”), and the Oxford English Dictionary notes that the term (ἀστὴρ) κομήτης already meant “long-haired star, comet” in Greek. Κομήτης was derived from κομᾶν (“to wear the hair long”), which was itself derived from κόμη (“the hair of the head”) and was used to mean “the tail of a comet”.[9][10]
The astronomical symbol for comets is (
), consisting of a small disc with three hairlike extensions.[11]
“Do not tell us our world is coming to an end. Kill the messenger!”
Have there been false prophets before me? Perhaps they spoke the truth, on another world, in another dimension?
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“Children Of The Future”
We are children of the future
Wonder where this world is going to, going to
We are children of the future
Wonder what in this world we are going to do, going to do
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