I was photographing 49 little mosaics on Luckie Street (see the slide show at the bottom of this post, it's worth it ) and there was Ted Turner in front of the his downtown Atlanta home. I grabbed his hand and wished him a good day. Know what? He looks just like Ted Turner. We're not buds, but I've seem him around.
Mr. Turner lives on top of.....The Tuner Building. It is also the home of many organizations he supports. If you are visiting the Aquarium, have lunch at Ted's Montana Grill. It's a great room.
It's in the Farlie Poplar district of downtown between Peachtree Street and Centennial Olympic Park. They haven't replaced the tornado damaged windows in the round Peachtree Plaza.
It's just across Olympic Park from CNN Center, the Dome, the Aquarium. Pretty handy but I don't know if he visits CNN much these days.
This is the view in the opposite direction, towards the heart of downtown Atlanta. (I've messed with the color on this picture). The red brick building with the little pediment used to be the Playboy Club. The low concrete building in the center of the picture is the back side of brutalist Marcel Breuer’s last building, Atlanta's Central Public Library. I preferred the building it replaced but I don't hate the Breuer as much as I used to.
The Turner Building is across the street from The Tabernacle. It's a rock music venue these days but it rocked just as hard when it was church.
The Tabernacle's facade is impressive and right on the sidewalk.
Great windows too.
Great doors, lantern, and wrought iron.
1910
This part of Luckie Street is just 4 blocks and a nice little stroll if you are downtown...
...and if you do visit, you'll be rewarded with 49 mosaics in the sidewalk.Do try the slide show in full screen.
History of Luckie Street Named after Solomon "Sam" Luckie, an African-American barber killed in a bombing of Atlanta during the Civil War.
Calvin Florian - "PSST Pass It ON" It's a collaborative film project. Mr. Florian showed how a particular film came together. Quite a presentation. We watched an idea develop into a film. We say rough pieces in development. At the end we say a bit of the finished project. A very rewarding 400 seconds.
Roland Krystian Alberciak - "Folding Bike Manifesto" Mr. Alberciak is not only funny, he loves folding bikes. A good combination for Pecha Kucha. I don't like folding bikes any or less. But I do like folding bike enthusiasts more than ever.
Murphy Townsend, MD - “Special ED” Dr. Townsend presented 400 seconds on Erectile Dysfunction. Very impressive, very fast, very professional, very funny. He had nearly all the men and many of the women squirming in their seats about certain urological procedures.
Jake Herrle- "Uganda: Water and Hope" Mr. Herrle showed pictures from his trip to Uganda mostly of folks in refugee camps. Water isn't particularly scarce there; destruction of water supplies is a tactic in their long civil war. The ClearWater Initiative helps.
Theresa Hall - "World Literacy, Local Community" Theresa is a volunteer literacy teacher. She presented work book pages used to teach adult literacy. For example, how do can an "r" affect a vowel. She presented pictures of her hardworking and motivated students. I found that to be quite encouraging and moving.
Lance Ledbetter - "In the Presence of the Past" Lance and April from Dust-to-Digital seat and let me take a picture with them. Lance presented gospel excerpts from "Goodbye, Babylon." Couldn't get the sound quite loud enough for the crowd. Even so, it was a breath of fresh air.
Terry Kearns, April Ledbetter, Lance Ledbetter
Clint Zeagler - "Dali : Dolly" Side by side pictures: Salvador Dali on the left and Dolly Parton on the right. Both cultivate a "tacky" public image for huge talents. Of course, I was always a believer. Clint may start doing triptychs: Salvador Dali, Dolly Parton, and the Dalai Llama
Kalpana Kuttaiah - "Visual Emotions" Each visual emotion was a one-page presentation of pictures and words based on a theme. One was yellow. Another red spheres, candy I guess. Another, curved street lights. The more she presented the more I liked them. I'd like to find these on the web.
-->400 seconds can seem excruciatingly long Things don't aways go perfectly in these presentations: Lack of practice, bad sounds, mussed scripts, material you aren't really "into." The best presentations, don't necssarily don't grab you at first; but they get you by the end. Sort of a tension / release sort of thing, I guess.
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