HOARE: The best piece I've ever done is the next piece I do. And when Mother Nature would wash one away, he'd put another in its place. SHAPIRO: Not just biplanes, either - he built human figures, sharks, Viking ships, a UFO with battery-powered Christmas lights. After years of showing in conventional galleries, he began installing his sculptures on pier posts in the 1970s. SUMMERS: He moved to Berkeley in 1965 and set up a studio in the basement of an old Victorian home. He said he always wanted to come to California, especially after hearing the song.īOBBY TROUP: (Singing) Get your kicks on Route 66. SHAPIRO: Hoare was born in Joplin, Mo., along Route 66. It was all fake paperwork that UC Berkeley had bought it, the city of Berkeley bought it. HOARE: And one of the people with us I left on shore with the paperwork. SUMMERS: Hoare explained that he didn't have a gallery to store his growing collection of sculptures, so he made the bay his gallery - without asking for permission.
We got two boats, ladders and made a pontoon and started out in high tide. And as Hoare clicked through slides on a projector, he described the placing of his very first plane. He invited Hoare to the gallery for a talk a few years ago. SHAPIRO: Matt Reynoso of The Compound Gallery knew Hoare for years. MATT REYNOSO: He would sculpt these large planes out of stretched canvas, wood, plaster, all kinds of found materials, and he would throw on, like, boots and, like, put a figure in it, and then he'd put them out on the pier posts in the bay. Tyler James Hoare was the man behind those sculptures, and he died on January 31. But for decades, a smaller spectacle has persisted along the East Bay shoreline - whimsical sculptures of biplanes, like the Red Baron, perched on pier pilings, flying above the water. I haven’t used the voice control much but it did work a few times when I got it but the speaker is cheap quality and is really loud when it turns on or completes an actionĬONS: the only cons I have for it is that there seems a quiet grinding noise when the light is on rotate but the music easily drowns it out And sometimes the remote doesn’t work every time it might be faulty or it might just be me being stupid(haven’t figured it out yet).The Golden Gate Bridge may be the most iconic monument on the San Francisco Bay. I’ve got a large bedroom with a high ceiling (almost 40Square meters) and it covers the whole room, I’ve had it in the middle of the room on the floor and it still covers the whole room when I have it in the corner on my bedside table. Lasers are stationary but can pulse in brightness. The remote is really useful, you can select it to stay on 1 specific color (blue,red,green,white) or it can slowly cycle through them and it can mix the colors (blue and green, red and green, ect) you can change the speed and brightness which most of the projectors do. I brought a 2in1 start night projector about 2 months ago ( black UFO looking light) and it works really well. I was recommending it to a friend recently and it seems like since it’s an older product, people who have issues now have a harder time getting company support which is also a bit of a downside.
The way it’s mounted makes it adjustable, so that’s kind of nice for positioning where we want the projections to be but I think most of them are like that. Doesn’t appear to have any kind of timer for it we just plug it in & turn it on & off as needed. The fan on the Laser Star has gotten a little louder over the years, but it’s not awful just like a white noise machine and it only turns on manually with a switch. Looking at the options available now, as much as I love it, I wish I would’ve had the cheaper Bliss Light option when I bought it bc they seem to be pretty much the same thing and the Bliss Light looks like it might have a little more coverage for a room (that’s just based on other photos I’ve seen tho!) I’ve owned the Laser Star projector for the last 10 years or so and it works pretty well, just basic for what it is.
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