A couple weeks back, I went to the East Bay to check out the Albany Bulb with my friend Larry, who lives in nearby Richmond. The Bulb is a wild area of landfill and overgrown bushes jutting out into the bay just north of Berkeley, strewn with broken pieces of concrete, metal and other detritus. There is a lot of graffiti and street art and sculpture there; also a fairly sizable population of homeless people. Here are just a few shots from that excursion. As is my wont, I took a few hundred pictures on our walk, and I'm still only about two-thirds of the way through processing them.
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Wow, great stuff! I have to get out there one of these days.
ReplyDelete...reminds me of the old driftwood sculptures between Emeryville and the bridge (but with a lot more variety). Remember those?
ReplyDeleteI remember them well, Tom. I think the first time I noticed them was a trip up here in 1968, and I enjoyed them every time I saw them after that. What's great about the Bulb is that there is a spot with some similar sculptures, made mostly of driftwood and whatever else was at hand. It really brought back the feeling of the Emeryville pieces.
ReplyDeleteI need to get back there myself, as there were a lot of shots that I missed due to poor planning and operator error (which I won't go into now). Maybe we can make a day of it, with my friend Larry as tour guide.
Oh, and speaking of Larry, he's famous right now, with a picture he took on the Jesus of the Week site.
ReplyDeleteHurray, Larry!