Artists use old paint for a new look.Byline: RANDI RANDI Random Integer RANDI Recognition and Identification RANDI Research Ambient Noise Directionality Model BJORNSTAD The Register-Guard If you've dropped off any leftover paint lately at Lane County's Household Hazardous Waste Household hazardous waste (HHW) is the term for common household chemicals and substances for which the owner no longer has a use. Exhibiting many of the same dangerous characteristics as fully regulated hazardous waste, HHW is not regulated by the EPA. Collection Center, your cast-off cast·off n. 1. One that has been discarded. 2. Printing A calculation of the amount of space a manuscript will occupy when set into type. adj. also cast-off Discarded; rejected. colors just might be riding around town now as part of a "moving mural" created by one of several local spray-can artists. This idea for giving graffiti painters more legitimate exposure for their talents - and reducing uninvited un·in·vit·ed adj. Not welcome or wanted: uninvited guests. uninvited Adjective not having been asked: uninvited guests art - came suddenly to Eric Munson Eric Walter Munson (born October 3, 1977 in San Diego, California) is a catcher for the Milwaukee Brewers of Major League Baseball. He was the third overall pick in the 1999 amateur draft by the Detroit Tigers, behind Josh Hamilton and Josh Beckett. , a driver for St. Vincent de Paul Vin·cent de Paul , Saint 1581-1660. French ecclesiastic who founded the Congregation of the Mission (1625) and the Daughters of Charity (1633). of Lane County. "I was stopped at a railroad track one day, sitting there and watching all the (graffiti) art going by, and I recognized that there were some extremely talented artists painting those cars," Munson said. "Then it occurred to me that most of the boxes on our trucks at St. Vincent de Paul were really ugly - most of them are old used ones we picked up from Lane County - and we didn't have any money in our budget to rehab them." One thought led to another, "and finally it occurred to me that maybe we could help out local artists and get our boxes painted at the same time," he said. The nonprofit agency has a fleet of trucks that carry metal "boxes" - ranging from Dumpster containers to cardboard compactors - on the back. Munson mentioned his idea to a friend who hooked him up with local artist and photographer Richard Crawford, who has spent years developing projects to bring graffiti artists more into the mainstream. About the same time, Munson also shared his brainstorm with staff members at the county's household waste collection center. Getting rid of the partially empty paint cans is a headache. Aerosol cans must be individually punctured, and all the leftover oil-based paint must go to a facility for burning, said Wende Hitchcock, supervisor at the county's Glenwood solid waste dump. All that takes many hours of work and costs the county $100 per barrel to send away, she said. In contrast, providing Crawford and his artists with can after can of paint made a lot more sense than throwing it away, Hitchcock said. Members of the public also can stop by the Glenwood facility and take the stuff home and put it on their walls. Gunderson Rail Services, which refurbishes shabby railroad cars - including painting out a whole lot of graffiti - also got into the act, donating up to 280 gallons of Burlington Northern green and Southern Pacific yellow paint for the artists to use as primer. "Putting all this the paint to use was beneficial to the county," Munson said. "It was beneficial to St. Vincent de Paul, and it was beneficial to the artists. "To everybody, it looked like a win-win-win situation." It definitely does to artists such as 24-year-old Jonah Jackson, who has created seven or eight large murals through his work with Crawford and St. Vincent de Paul. Besides decorating several pieces of rolling stock rolling stock Any of various readily movable transportation equipment such as automobiles, locomotives, railroad cars, and trucks. Rolling stock generally makes good collateral for loans because the equipment is standardized and easily transportable among , Jackson's also helped paint the "smoking shed," a tiny freestanding free·stand·ing adj. Standing or operating independently of anything else: a freestanding bell tower; a freestanding maternity clinic. metal structure outside St. Vincent de Paul's furniture and mattress factory The Mattress Factory is a museum of contemporary art located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. It exhibits room-sized installation art from across the country and around the world. off Prairie Road. He's currently painting murals on some large fiberboard fi·ber·board n. A building material composed of wood chips or plant fibers bonded together and compressed into rigid sheets. Noun 1. panels on the site that act as baffles to shield neighbors from noise generated by the factory. "I just want people to see my stuff - I want to get better and better and start doing more art, like canvas work Canvas work is a type of embroidery in which yarn is stitched through a canvas or other foundation fabric. Canvas work is a form of counted-thread embroidery. Common types of canvas work include needlepoint, petit point, and bargello. ," said Jackson, who also studies computer networking
Computer networking is the engineering discipline concerned with communication between computer systems or devices. at Pioneer Pacific College. "I've gotten in trouble in the past for graffiti, and I don't want to do that any more," he said. "Now, I call my work 'pieces.' This is more like ego to me. No one else can do exactly what I do." Half shy and half proud, Jackson also confided that the prospect of becoming a father - he and his partner, Cassandra Ligon, expect a baby next fall - also plays into his desire to hone his talents further. "I want to be able to take my baby around someday and point to my work and say, 'See, your dad painted that,' ' he said. RECYCLING OTHER PEOPLE'S DISCARDS You can take paint and other products to Lane County's Household Hazardous Waste Collection Center, but you can also pick them up to use for your own projects. What's in stock depends on what has been dropped off. Check out what may be available: Paint, paint thinners A paint thinner is a solvent used to thin oil-based paints, or as a cleaning agent. Paint thinners include:
How to participate: By appointment only. Call 682-4120 to set up a time, either to donate or pick up items. The center operates between 8 a.m. and noon each Thursday or 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. the second Saturday of each month. (Rules differ for businesses; call for details.) Where to go: Glenwood Central Receiving Station, 3100 E. 17th Ave., Eugene, off Glenwood Boulevard between the Glenwood exit from the I-5 Freeway and Franklin Boulevard. Cost: Free to Lane County residents with the donation of a can or two of food for FOOD for Lane County. CAPTION(S): PAUL CARTER Paul Carter is the name of:
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