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| photo by Kevin Surbaugh |
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| photo by Kevin Surbaugh |
Artist: Daniel Johnston
When my wife and I arrived to see this mural were disappointed someone had defaced this famous mural. You can see my wife unintentionally in the 2nd shot of this famous Austin mural.
Brief History:
In 1993 Johnston was commissioned to paint a mural of the Hi, How Are You? frog (also known as "Jeremiah the Innocent") from his 1983 album cover on the side of the Sound Exchange record store located on the corner of 21st and Guadalupe in Austin, Texas (the "Drag"). At the time, the frog image had recently become nationally recognized from media images of Kurt Cobain wearing a "Hi, How Are You?" t-shirt during Nirvana's promotion of their 1991 album Nevermind. The building remained unoccupied until 2004 when a Mexican grill franchise called Baja Fresh took ownership and decided to paint over the mural. Diego Gonzalez Joven, an international student from The University of Texas at Austin convinced the managers and contractors to keep the mural intact, later that year it became a sushi and Thai restaurant called Crave. In Spring 2008, a Jeremiah the Innocent collectible figurine was released in limited runs of four different colors.
As of June 2010, a biopic about Johnston's life featuring Gabriel Sunday of My Suicide is in production.
March 1, 2012, Brooklyn based photographer Jung Kim announced her photo book and traveling exhibition project with Johnston, a collaboration 4 years in the making. It is cited on the project's Kickstarter campaign page that the photo book and first exhibition will launch at SXSW 2013 in Austin, Texas, hosted by Louis Black who was an early supporter of Johnston.
- Wikipedia
From Wikipedia
The actual image un-defaced can be seen in the Wikipedia quote. Hopefully this mural gets repaired soon.
it's sad but no one respects anything anymore....
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