Don's car wash idea
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 01:50PM 
Don's car wash # 1 • click to embiggen
Don's car wash # 2 • click to embiggenIn response to my get with the feelin' y'all, car wash, yeah entry, Don sent me an email with his car wash pictures attached along with the suggestion:
I did the same thing 4 years ago but without the dashboard,and my family thought I was nuts but when enlarged it looked great. No two will ever be alike.
I would like to see others send you some shots from car washes around the world - it would make an interesting book.
That's a great suggestion and all it takes is a little cooperation and effort from the audience out there. How about it? I'll start a Car Wash Gallery (like the Kitchen Sink Gallery) if there is enough interest.
I am certain that together we could create an interesting and somewhat unique body of work that might, indeed, be book worthy. And I don't mean just POD book worthy - with enough effort and imagination this could be book publisher worthy or even gallery exhibit worthy.
Think about for a bit. The picturing possibilities are plentiful - pictures from the back seat, from the front seat(s), out the windshield, out the side windows, out the back windows, with people in the car, without people in the car, car wash workers, car wash buildings inside and out in all kinds of weather, day and/or night ......
Reader Comments (7)
Thanks Mark, like your ideas also, I hope others will jump in it would be a great project.
Are you doing this to drive me crazy?
of course
C'mon y-all and sing it with me…
gravitas et nugalis:
You might not ever get rich
But let me tell ya
It's better than diggin' a ditch
There ain't no tellin' who you might meet
A movie star or maybe even a Indian Chief
AT THE CAR WASH!
The Trophy Wife:
He drives me crazy
OO! OO!
like no one else
OO! OO!
He drives me crazy
and I can't help myself.
OK - you've got my attention - might try this - tho' in rainy Northern California, we don't usually (even need to) wash our vehicle in the winter . . .
Also, I had pulled these lyrics down a few days ago for a show we're planning - "Auto-Nocturne" - but they seem like a nice fit here, too"
"We are drinking beer at noon on Tuesday
In a bar that faces a giant car wash
The good people of the world are washing their cars
On their lunch break, hosing and scrubbing
As best they can in skirts in suits
"They drive their shiny Datsuns and Buicks
Back to the phone company, the record store too
Well, they're nothing like Billy and me, cause
[Chorus]
All I wanna do is have some fun
I got a feeling I'm not the only one
All I wanna do is have some fun
I got a feeling I'm not the only one
All I wanna do is have some fun
Until the sun comes up over Santa Monica Boulevard"
("All I Wanna Do" by Sheryl Crow)
Sounds like a great idea, as soon as the snow has thawed off the roof of the car it will need a good wash. I haven't taken any still images yet in the car wash, I once did a video capture as I wanted to get the audio too, I think car washes are lots of Fun.
We have a blue lit dash in our car so that should be an interesting contrast to your red light.
:-)
http://leaflitter.typepad.com/scottsblog/2008/11/two-from-the-car-wash.html