© 2013 Michael Fiveson
Found in my home town is a man who I have a personal connection with. No, we are not both geniuses, and I would be lucky to have been his chauffeur or friend. We share the same birthday, which has always been a weird and misplaced sense of pride for me. And what a fantastic mural someone created. How they do that, paint big, while being close?
Mike's Look at Life 
I have a poster of Einstein in my classroom. Several years ago a student asked who he was and without thinking long about it I said, “My Dad” and pointed out the similarities: wild hair, facial foliage, and eccentricity. We now have to clarify which Dad I am talking about about in my classroom. Thanks for the great picture Mike.
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You remain the man, Ivon. Good morning, sir.
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Good morning back Mike.
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Fantastic done..it’s art.
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Agreed.
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great graffiti find.
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Some kind of great work, eh.
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Very nice.
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And huge too.
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Yes, how do that do such a huge painting up close? The question of the day.
Wow, you look pretty good for being born in 1879.
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Thanks. Ah the things I have seen in my long life.
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🙂 I like your photo very much for few reasons . First : it is a very good shot and a very good work . And then I like graffiti , like Einstein even if sometimes it is too complicated for me ,and well what I like very much here are comments and your answers .
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Thank you for all of that Anisja. I think the art is amazing and must have been a project that took some time. Hope your day was good.
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A fellow pisces! Good man 🙂
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I swim with you!
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That s a fine piece of art 😀
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That’s what I was thinking too 🙂
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Wow – that one is stunning, Mike. Instantly recognisable too. I hope you won’t mind if I re-blog this for some of my UK followers.
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Honored Andy and always good to hear from you.
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Reblogged this on LensScaper and commented:
This is a stunning mural of a famous man. It deserves a UK audience – so here it is for you all, courtesy of my good friend Mike Fiveson
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And Andy I am in very good company having you as my friend. Thank you.
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That is some awesome graffiti!
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Ain’t it though? I suspect that it was endorsed by the city so technically I don’t think it qualifies as graffiti 🙂
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Awesome mural and capture, Mike. Oh, and happy belated birthday 🙂
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Thanks Scott. I agree, the mural rocks.
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I hope the tagger finds his niche!
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I’m thinking he (or she) has. I suspect this may have been done with the support of the city, since it is downtown and would have taken some time to do.
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I hope there are women taggers though for some reason it seems like a male driven past time to me?
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Yeah, I would guess you are right although in real cities (NY, for example) there must be female taggers. I imagine it’s gogglable 🙂
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I wonder….I would…in a second but I would struggle with the arrest professionally : )
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Having done murals, the way you know what you’re doing up close is to have it planned out before hand. For me, it’s much less improvisational than working on a canvas. Usually, I walk through all the steps in my mind before I even approach the wall.
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VERY good information to have. I think it is an amazing process and truly an incredible art form. Thank you.
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A wonderful mural, and an equally wonderful capture!
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Thanks, Alex.
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Fantastic, indeed, and I think I understand your misplaced pride. I share my birthday with legendary Russian ballerina, Anna Pavlova, which I’ve always been very pleased about, not because I followed in her ballet-toed footsteps in any way, but because she had a cream meringue dessert named after her.
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HA! You are hysterical Lorna. A dessert named after her!
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I love the mural. I have a photo of another mural made of him that I found in Tel Aviv.
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It is nice to meet you, Shimon.
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that is great art! thanks for sharing
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🙂
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Einstein was a hero of mine and I always subscribe to his aphorism “Imagination is more important than knowledge” as I try to live by that saying. He appears everywhere, even here: http://jmnpixels.com/2013/04/05/einstein-cycling/. As to painting big upclose, well, I think they do it by numbers, you know, create numbered squares from a photograph and then fill it in, somehow!
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Yes, he was a brilliant and interesting person for sure. Thanks for the look and comment.
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