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Unique Folk Art Place – DanTraveling

See Paradise Gardens in this REM video (Radio Free Europe) filmed there. www.youtube.com This Southern Life, Howard Finster’s Paradise Gardens. Jan and I had a chance to stop by Paradise Gardens in Georgia last month on vacation. Wow you have to see this collection of art created by the objects others discarded. It is an amazing place and if you are ever in northern Georgia you should stop by and see it for yourself. In addition to painting REM, Blackhawk and Talking Head Album covers, Howard Finster was the grandfather of religious folk art. Become a fan on facebook, this southern life tinyurl.com dmccoig dan mccoig

25 responses to “Unique Folk Art Place – DanTraveling”

  1. tomken8dy says:
    July 9, 2009 at 10:50 pm

    The problem with your new video idea is that
    people LEARN something.

    You can make silly comedies along with the learning :-) )

  2. WolfDream0xo says:
    July 10, 2009 at 12:14 am

    Leave the highway.turn off the gps..Dan And Crew this is great!

  3. dmccoig says:
    July 10, 2009 at 1:14 am

    Thanks Daniel, always appreciated. Hope your having some fun this summer.

  4. dmccoig says:
    July 10, 2009 at 1:16 am

    Thanks William, I honestly thought of your prolific artistic ability when I read about Howard’s Place. He painted over 10,000 paintings and numbered them all to keep up with his quantity.

    Yes you should get some land and we will come video your work!

  5. dmccoig says:
    July 10, 2009 at 1:18 am

    Hey thanks wolfdreams! Whats a GPS? ha
    we rely more on the Rand McNally! Maybe thats why we find these places, because we are lost!

  6. AtomicUs5000 says:
    July 10, 2009 at 1:36 am

    Wow, that’s incredible. I have not always been this way. I was always artistic, but it wasn’t until about 2 years ago that I started doing so much. I have more in the past year than probably my whole life put together.

  7. whitney6679 says:
    July 10, 2009 at 3:50 am

    love the video it totally rocks thanks guys

  8. evilborg says:
    July 10, 2009 at 7:14 am

    That was odd LOL

  9. PC4TW says:
    July 10, 2009 at 9:32 am

    thank you very much
    good weekend

  10. rylandheights says:
    July 10, 2009 at 9:10 pm

    Great video! Thanks!

  11. CaliTravels says:
    July 10, 2009 at 9:45 pm

    I love southern accents! :) Great job!

  12. Teammarcopolo says:
    July 10, 2009 at 10:25 pm

    Yay for more culture and art!
    Maybe some context up front next time would be good!

  13. wyllieohagan says:
    July 13, 2009 at 3:23 pm

    Thank you very much for making and posting this video.
    American Folk Art is a rich and intruiging artform, and it is a pleasure to see it documented so well here

  14. johnnyboydmusik says:
    July 13, 2009 at 10:52 pm

    thanks for sharing,
    wonderful form of art,
    i was born right here in ga.
    take care…….JB

  15. dmkirwin says:
    July 14, 2009 at 7:05 pm

    Great video, I need to come visit the Gardens, take care. dm

  16. MindsiMedia says:
    July 17, 2009 at 3:41 am

    A great video about a unique place.

  17. Draconis888 says:
    July 19, 2009 at 4:29 am

    Thanks for sharing this wonderful bit of Americana that would otherwise remain in obscurity with us!

  18. AnythingGoesProd says:
    July 19, 2009 at 7:38 pm

    Very cool! Nice work!

  19. byrddesigns says:
    July 22, 2009 at 5:43 pm

    Good job!

  20. dmccoig says:
    July 23, 2009 at 1:45 am

    Ha, Janet laughed when I read your comment out loud… I’ll never loose my nickname now! ha
    Thankis rockkkher

  21. NetGenDesign says:
    July 28, 2009 at 5:19 am

    I love this… I like the idea of doing videos about Southern people. I took some great video of a proprietor at a bed and breakfast in Alabama…I wish I could do something this cool with the clips I have. Awesome!!!

  22. Lcogan says:
    July 30, 2009 at 2:56 am

    wonderful video storytelling. Thanks!

  23. MrSpirit101 says:
    August 18, 2009 at 9:20 pm

    I ve Got 1 of Howards last Pieces , numbered @(45.000.435 works)
    Thats how it reads when he would paint
    45,435,00 on Aug 5th 1999
    ….I think He May Have Reached 47 thousand pieces .

  24. HowardFinster says:
    September 4, 2009 at 5:45 pm

    Great video, amen.

  25. MrBeerman24 says:
    October 11, 2009 at 5:03 am

    I live down the road from Paradise Gardens and recommend a visit !! RIP Rev. Howard!

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