Blizzard vs Street Painting

If I was at 47 Pianos, I would have awakened to a blizzard forecast.  Instead, I got to the Lake Worth Beach Street Painting Festival before the crowds arrived on a hot sunny day, before the mercury plunges 40 degrees tomorrow!

Check out the tatted artist's socks.

I probably should support the Lake Worth Playhouse more.  It opened in the silent movie era and was nearly demolished during the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane--the fourth worst in the United States--when the Wurlitzer organ went bye-bye.

Several artists prioritized avoiding Forida's bright February sun.

Others coordinated their outfits to create a Sixties vehicle even more iconic than my very own Herr Cucaracha.

The heat didn't seem to bother Marimba Anhelos Del Copal.

Animals are always popular subjects

. . . and beautiful women, too.

Ya gotta love a good pun!

I couldn't tell if this work was political or not.

If so, it and this portrait of Angela Davis were the only ones that sought to enlighten rather than soothe. When I complimented the artist, he exulted "She's still alive!" Unlike so many of the other Black Panthers.

Many of the artists were POC

. . . including green.

Compass, a community center for LGBTQI+ folk needs to up its game, both in terms of deadlines and content.  The festival began yesterday.

I read in the Times this morning that Luke Evans is going to star in Broadway's revival of The Rocky Horror Show.  Hubba, hubba. I caught the original production with the incomparable Tim Curry as Dr. Frank 'n Furter at the Belasco Theater in 1975.

Labyrinth, which I've never seen, is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year.  Bowie's already been dead a decade.

You just know "Golden" is gonna the win Oscar for Best Song this year!

Other pop culture nods included Dawson's Creek and Pluribus.  I like the latter mural a lot more than the angry show itself.

Did you know bikes could be "lowriders" too?  Hot dawg!

I never noticed this mural of the Lake Worth Beach Pier before.  I haven't walked on it since Christine first invited me to visit in 2010. 

Update:

The NYC forecast proved accurate.  Alex, the neighbor who waters my plants, sent me this photo of the view from 47 Pianos Monday morning:

Photo by Alex Ruter

More Street Painting:

Duck Lip Grannies (2025)

Lake Worth's Big Weekend (2024)

Artists @ Work (2023)

Artistic Tanning (2022)

Sweet Invasion (2020)

Tweed, Not Tweet (2019)

Homesteading (2018)