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Michael and John's Excellent Taos Adventure, page 2 |
| Michael made friends with all the dogs in Taos. This one said hello at the Mabel Dodge Luhan house. The best I can figure, Mabel Dodge Luhan was a rich patron of the arts. Her house is now a B & B. A damned nice one! Too nice for us! We were just there to shoot some photos. |
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| Michael against the blue NM sky. Notice in this shot, the top of my shoe does not appear, unlike the one Michael took of me. The difference between an amateur and a pro. |
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| Yet another old war horse. This one a Chevy. |
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This is one of the most funkadellically cool cars I've ever seen. If Pee-Wee Herman wanted to turn a Honda Civic into a rolling piece of art/religious statement machine, this is what it would look like. The person who built this calls it the "Heaven and Hell Car." It is literally covered with beads, decoupaged religious postcards, figurines [some kitschy, tacky stuff, too!] and painted slogans. The bottom line of this Funmobile seems to be: We're all family, we should lighten up on each other, and why be so goddamned serious about everything...including religion? |
| Back view of the Heaven
and Hell Car. I wish I'd written down all the stuff printed on the back. This image is too rough to read any of the stuff, so I'll share with you what I can see from the actual photo this scan came from. The middle red taillight strip says "Doing my CIVIC duty" [CIVIC is already there, courtesy of Honda.] On the left bumper it says: THOU SHALT NOT THIS... and on the right, THOU SHALT NOT THAT. On the right side of the white strip there's the Christian fish symbol. Inside it says: Confucius, Jesus, Brahmin, Buddha, Lao Tse, Allah, all = 1. |
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The driver's side of the
Heaven and Hell Car. The sign at the bottom by the tire says: LOOK HERE TO SEE YOURSELF IN HELL... ...and there's an arrow pointing to a mirror. So I positioned myself in the mirror and took the shot. It didn't feel like hell. Just the opposite. The creator of the Heaven and Hell Car sure knows how to put the FUN in FUNDAMENTALISM! Unfortunately we didn't meet him/her. A crowd had gathered, waiting to meet the creative genius behind the car, but he/she never appeared. Busy shopping, I guess. |
