>
Image of a radio

Join The Big Something's
Flickr Group

Roy Tanck's Flickr Widget requires Flash Player 9 or better.


PeakRadarLink

Ticket hours: 9a-5p Tues-Fri
on the phone or at the studio

Saturday, September 11th - 8pm

KRCC and A Music Company Inc. present Mose Allison
Location: Armstrong Hall, Colorado Springs, CO ( map )
Tickets KRCC member tickets on sale at the KRCC studios for $24 and, general public tickets available for $30 through the AMusicCompanyInc.com www.amusiccompanyinc.com $50 VIP ticket includes meet and greet, food, drink and choice seating. $35 day of show ticket prices for everyone.

Monday, October 11th - 7pm

KRCC presents an evening with NPR's Scott Simon
Location: Armstrong Hall, Colorado Springs, CO ( map )
Tickets VIP meet and greet passes, and general public tickets ~ON SALE SOON~

July 24, 2009

A Naturalist’s Guide to Gas Rigs

Artist Streeter Wright has been paying his way through Colorado College for the past five years by working as a roughneck on the gas rigs in Western Colorado. The schedule is grueling: 14 days of 12 hour shifts followed by 14 days off. While he’s working, Wright takes pictures of the people, tools and machinery on the rigs, which he then transforms into detailed pencil drawings on small pieces of vintage notebook paper he found in his grandparents’ storage locker. The resulting 34 drawings shown here have the look, feel and attention of a naturalist’s sketchbook discovered in an old trunk—a guidebook to the culture of the rigs. In this audio-slideshow, Wright walks us through a world that few outsiders ever visit.

Subscribe here and get The Big Something Every Weekday.
Subscribe here and get The Big Something DIGEST Every Friday.
Filed under: Art!,Interviews,Local History — Noel Black @ 2:00 am
About Noel Black and The Big Something
Comments (14)

14 Comments »

  1. absolutely gorgeous.

    Comment by marc huebert — July 24, 2009 @ 2:20 am

  2. Brings back memories I still have all my fingers. When I was a roughneck in west texas during the boom of the 80,s. I did a series of paintings and drawings when I was in art school many moons ago nice work.

    Comment by james slic — July 24, 2009 @ 6:19 am

  3. WOW…..very cool!! Great drawings!

    Comment by CoLo — July 24, 2009 @ 6:30 am

  4. nice stuff! what software did you use to create this btw?

    Comment by bill — July 24, 2009 @ 7:34 am

  5. Gorgeous drawings Streeter! I hope to see these hanging together someday soon.

    Comment by Daisy — July 24, 2009 @ 8:37 am

  6. Excellent work.

    Comment by Hal — July 24, 2009 @ 9:26 am

  7. Thanks for the glimpse into this hard world. I grew up in Grand Junction and my parents still live there, so when I drive home (especially at night), I see the flames of the natural gas sites. This gives me a different perspective. Thanks for sharing.

    Comment by Liz Arnold — July 24, 2009 @ 9:54 am

  8. @4 We use a program called SoundSlides for Mac. There is a PC version, too. http://soundslides.com/

    Comment by Delaney Utterback — July 25, 2009 @ 1:11 am

  9. beautiful, intimate drawings. a world few of us even knew existed.

    Comment by tobi — July 26, 2009 @ 11:32 pm

  10. Impeccable, inspired work. It made me cry. It stabbed me in the heart. Where have you been hiding? What phenomenal talent you have!! Brilliant artistry. Give us more. Thank you, thank you!!

    Comment by Diane Cox — August 30, 2009 @ 7:31 pm

  11. Fo shizzle, bra.

    Comment by harper — September 8, 2009 @ 9:53 pm

  12. streeter you are such a man! (in a really beautiful way) (really beautiful drawings)

    Comment by blaise — October 19, 2009 @ 9:20 pm

  13. [...] KRCC’s The Big Something. Streeter Wright is a student I was just talking to at Tutt Library. His drawings of the people and [...]

    Pingback by Bevedog » Blog Archive » Streeter Wright — April 9, 2010 @ 7:17 am

  14. Jim DIne’s got nothing on you Streets! Great stuff.

    Comment by matt — May 11, 2010 @ 10:59 pm

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URL

Leave a comment