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...most notorious moment in Spaces history came when he redid a living room for a Seattle couple who asked that he not alter the wife's beloved brick fireplace. It was like waving a maroon, dark green and oatmeal flag in front of a bull. "'Don't paint the fireplace!'" he recalls. "Fine. I won't paint the fireplace." He built a screen around it instead, and the wife duly burst into tears. "[The screen] wasn't earth shattering," he insists. "But her shrieks were...
There is a color palate that lets readers know exactly which shades this face paint-goop comes in. The first three hues—indistinguishable to the human eye—are for three separate shades of Caucasian skin. They are called “pale,” “buff” and “naked”. Not exactly the color I see when I’m naked, but whatever, no need to get testy. My eye rapidly scans the color chart to find that the “darkest” color listed...
...Devon Guillery, a junior at West Roxbury High School, divided his mural with a street: on the right side are pristine white houses with doghouses and porches, and on the left, a boarded up housing project. In the foreground, two young men walk by gazing pensively out of the painting. “I decided to paint what I’ve seen,” he said. “I know both these worlds...
...group’s second mural, the Rodney King story told in hieroglyphics, provoked citywide controversy when Boston police objected to the depiction of the beating. As a compromise, the mural crew agreed to paint a second mural depicting better relations between officers and the community...
...berries in the trees. But all was not well at this collision of concrete and Mother Nature. “They eat the berries and decide to poop on the cars!” laughs April Tavares, a Harvard Parking Office employee. But for the car owners whose paint jobs were bearing the brunt of these aerial bombardments, this was no laughing matter. At $450 for a spot for one year, car owners paid for convenience, not corrosion from the surprisingly acidic starling droppings. The parking lot’s users decided to take action and filed a complaint with...