The Rock (100k images x 6)

Someones Camera ^ | 11/9/03 | 11/9/03

[ChadGore]

These were all painted on one rock...

The artist, whose name is on the first photo, did an impressive job.

The photos were taken along Hwy. 25 South of I - 80 and North of Greenfield Iowa.

[ChadGore]

bump

[Rightly Biased]

BTTT

[ChadGore]

Bump to the artist, whoever he is.

[ChadGore]

bump

[Lazamataz]

I thought this was going to be about that goofy black rock the Muslims worship.

[ChadGore]

Re: I thought this was going to be about that goofy black rock the Muslims worship.

lol . . *This* rock you can respect, because it's been earned. :)

[ZinGirl]

Awesome

bump for all who served and are serving....THANK YOU!

[ChadGore]

Re: bump for all who served and are serving....THANK YOU!

Agreed, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARINES

[Impy]

Wow. Awesome work.

[ChadGore]

I googled the artists name and got this:

From: http://www.popasmoke.com/visions/image.php?source=3814

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The artist is Ray "Bubba" Sorensen II, 24 years old, living in Greenfield IA. He paints something like this every year for Memorial Day! Our country needs millions more young Americans with Ray Sorensen's spirit. I received these from one of my former Cobra pilots in HMA-369, now Col USMC (ret'd). I wanted to thank the artist so I used a little ingenuity and tracked him down in 3 phone calls. I looked up the Ray Sorensen name in Iowa, using switchboard.com and found 3 listings. The 2nd call was his grandmother, a very nice lady. Once I explained my mission, she gave me his parents' home phone, explaining that Bubba was probably not at home right then. When I called anyway, he answered the phone. We had a nice conversation. He was unaware that the photos were on the Internet and probably been sent around the world by now. I thanked him for all of us and told him how much we appreciated his work. He, in turn, thanked me (us) and told me how much he appreciates the vets. OO-ooooo-raaah-hhh!!!!! Semper Fidelis, Ron Osborne

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The young painter is Ray "Bubba" Sorensen II in Greenfield IA. email bubbalca@hotmail.com; phone: ***-***-****

Phone number redacted.

[DUMBGRUNT]

http://www.greenfieldiowa.com/patriotic_rock.htm

Patriotic Rock

The Patriotic rock, located at the Schildberg Construction - Jefferson Quarry and painted by Ray "Bubba" Sorensen. The rock was a local graffiti rock for twenty years for the surrounding schools. Out of respect, the local students have not defaced the painting in the past five years since Bubba has been painting his tribute.

"I love my country, and I do it out of respect for the veterans." Quoted Ray "Bubba" Sorensen.

Bubba draws a sketch of his idea on paper and then draws the design by free hand onto the rock. This takes him anywhere from one to three weeks to paint and he has been doing it for five consecutive years. Bubba is interested in military history and gets his ideas from books, movies, previous artwork and images by other artists.

The rock is located on Highway 25, just 1 mile south of Interstate-80 near Greenfield, exit 86.
If traveling from Greenfield junction 25 & 92, take Hwy 25 north 12 miles.

[ChadGore]

Amazing bump

[ChadGore]

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[RedBloodedAmerican]

I thought it was going to be just another WWE Smackdown thread. Nice paint job, though!

[ChadGore]

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[ChadGore]

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[kakkatekoi]

Kakkate koi? Hmmm, I like that.

[ChadGore]

LOL ! Great Nick ! :)

Bring em on ! :)

[ChadGore]

A short WAV File of "Kakkate Koi!" from an old japaneese video game can be found here.

[kakkatekoi]

Sorry, couldn't get through...

[RosieCotton]

Ping!

G'nad - I know you had posted some pictures of this rock in the HH...seem to recall you knew a bit more about the author and the history of it?

[tutstar]

very cool...

[ChadGore]

bump

[ChadGore]

Thanks for the ping.

[toomuchcoffee]

Where's the aclu? How about the du? What about the greens? Why is this rock allowed to be desecrated by paint and American values? I expected to see about ten blackshirts with cans of red paint, surrounding the rock while, in the background, giant squirrls hold rallies to defend this rock's rights...

[ChadGore]

Re: "Where's the aclu? How about the du? What about the greens? Why is this rock allowed to be desecrated by paint and American values? I expected to see about ten blackshirts with cans of red paint, surrounding the rock while, in the background, giant squirrls hold rallies to defend this rock's rights...

LOL! classic! They may even make things up, like "The seperation of patriotism and state" . . lol

[ChadGore]

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[TexasCajun]

WOW! Nice work.

I sure hope this is on private property and is being protected as much as possible, ya just know some brainwashed liberal kid is already plotting to tarnish this great image.

[ChadGore]

It is, from what I read, on private property . . Schildberg Construction - Jefferson Quarry.

[P.O.E.]

Awesome!

[tutstar]

ping

[Ferret Fawcet]

Wow. Puts a lump in my throat. Thanks for posting

[ChadGore]

Re: Puts a lump in my throat.

Yea, it kinda hit me too.

[Free_at_last_-2001]

Where's the ACLU? - this must be removed it..it ..could be offensive to some innocent terrrorists!

[Free_at_last_-2001]

Woops didn't see yours first!

[ChadGore]

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[VOA]

Great "folk art"...and to think I almost didn't click in as I thought some wrestler
was the subject of the thread!

[ChadGore]

Re: and to think I almost didn't click in as I thought some wrestler was the subject of the thread!

Please ping a few friends to the thread, if you can. It would apear that you're not the only one who thinks it's about the WWE star.

[ChadGore]

Should this rock be moved into the plaza of the rebuilt WTC ?

[ChadGore]

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[VOA]

ChadGore, maybe you can ping the Admin Moderator to add a better description to the thread title...

[ChadGore]

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[ZinGirl]

another THANK YOU FOR SERVING OUR COUNTRY BUMP

[doug from upland]

Spectacularly heartwarming.

[ChadGore]

bump

[ChadGore]

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[Rightly Biased]

I am glad to
Bump to the top of the messages page for ChadGore!!!!

[ChadGore]

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[Rightly Biased]

So your sayin' "Bump to the top?"

as far as you know?