Boohbah Barrow

Though the original site is gone, I've found a way for you to get there. The game is playable from a computer (maybe not from a tablet or phone) at Boobah Zone. What's below are just images from the game.

Go to Boobah Zone and let it load. Turn the sound on.

Click the box (made of changing colors and sparkles), and click until they show you the wheelbarrow. Each object out of the box is a link to a different wordless game.

You can help a guy fill it up with apples. I'm sorry the art cut off the very bottom; that's just the way they set it on the screen.

Knitter targets wheelbarrow

Barbara Simmonds linked this with a note on Facebook: "Sharing for Sandra Dodd. This reflects both our interests."

click here to see because the old image was gone and I couldn't find free ones.

The knitting above is by Magda Sayeg. She didn't cover a real, regular wheelbarrow, but a larger, built sculpture of a wheelbarrow. And a giant watering can, for a Spring Show in Worcestershire, UK.

This info is from a site that's not there anymore. All the links on this post were gone!

Magda Sayeg es una joven artista americana que descubrió en el tejido el placer de crear arte. Su movimiento llamado “La Guerrilla del Tejido” ya tuvo varios ataques alrededor del mundo, como México, China, Australia (Sidney y Canberra) Italia (Venecia y Milán), Suecia, Holanda, Alemania, Francia, Inglaterra.

Here's something about Magda Sayeg in English. She's in Austin: (a wordpress blog intro)

Tortilla Flat (1942)

The world is filling with 75th Anniversary Wizard of Oz things, and in one of the special features is a brief scene from Tortilla Flat, because Terry the Terrier (the dog playing Toto) was in it (just a couple of years later). So was Frank Morgan, who had played the wizard.

So here's Frank Morgan, with a wheelbarrow. :-)

Sierra Madre, two wheelbarrows in one yard

In a pretty little edge-of-mountains, near-a-dam neighborhood in Sierra Madre, I saw two wheelbarrows. The second one was harder to spot.

Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena

Pam Sorooshian and I had just been in the "European Art : 17th – 18th Centuries" rooms for a few moments when I said I was going to look for a wheelbarrow. The very next painting I saw had one. Cool!!!



The painting is by Jan Steen, a Dutch artist, in around 1668. Part of the description was "In front of an inn, a hopelessly inebriated young woman is being helped into a wheelbarrow." The title is "De wijn is een spotter," translated to English as "Wine is a Mocker."

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More from the museum's site (added here July 24, 2014):
Wine is a Mocker, 1663-64

The inscription above the door is from Proverbs 20:1, which reads: “Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.” In front of an inn, a hopelessly inebriated young woman is being helped into a wheelbarrow. Although the woman’s low-cut dress and red stockings mark her as a prostitute, her rich and exquisitely delineated clothing indicate a more privileged status. Jan Steen subtly conveys the message that not only are those of superior position as susceptible as the lowly to the sins of drink, but that their disgrace is perhaps more pitiable because of the distance they have fallen.

Karen James, looking, in Japan

At a folk art museum in Fukuoka, Karen James found a model and an illustration. I would say "hand cart," and they're similar to one another. Does anyone know what might be in barrels that size? The captions below are Karen's, from her blog entry Last Day in Fukuoka:

I haven't found any real wheelbarrows, Sandra, but I did find this model one.

And this one illustrated on a wall. Unfortunately there was a poster in the way on the bottom right. I'll still keep my eyes peeled for the real thing.

Playing with the moon

This was being passed around Facebook without a credit, but I looked for it and found it. One image was named Laurent Laveder Wheelbarrow Moon. I don't know what the original name was.

There is an article about the photographer, which I don't know how to find full size, and it's in French anyway, but it's called Playing with the Moon.

(Links changed, but I've brought images from the Wayback Machine.)