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San Jose Utility Box Art A California City At The Bottom of San Francisco Bay
Utility box art is a form of street art whereby utility boxes on city streets are painted or otherwise covered in artwork. [from wikipedia]
"Blossom Fish" Utility Box Art "Downtown" Utility Box Art "Portrait of a Reader" Utility Box Art "The All Seeing Eye" Utility Box Art "Tree" Utility Box Art Other Pedal To The Metal San Jose Utility Box Art
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"Blossom Fish" Utility Box Art, Artist: Ivy Nguyen, School: Mt Pleasant High School, Sponsor: Silicon Valley Community Foundation, San Jose, California

A fish (pl.: fish or fishes) is an aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animal that lacks limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups.[from wikipedia]

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"Downtown" Utility Box Art, Artist: Unknown, San Jose, California

Downtown is a term primarily used in North America by English speakers to refer to a city's sometimes commercial, cultural and often the historical, political, and geographic heart.[from wikipedia]

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Other Pedal To The Metal, Utility Box Art, Artist: Unknown, San Jose, California

Street Smarts is an American game show that featured two in-studio contestants trying to predict the outcome of interviews of people who were found on the street[from wikipedia]

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"Portrait of a Reader" Utility Box Art, Artist: Mira Pinto, School: Santa Teresa High School, Sponsor: KBM Hogue and Steinberg Hart, San Jose, California

The idea that communication directly from those who first discovered an idea is the best way of gaining understanding is Adler's argument for reading the Great Books; that any book that does not represent original communication is inferior, as a source, to the original, and that any teacher, save those who discovered the subject he or she teaches, is inferior to the Great Books as a source of comprehension.[from wikipedia]

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"The All Seeing Eye" Utility Box Art, Artist: Audrey Torres-Padilla, School: Del Mar High School, Location: Office of Cultural Affairs, San Jose, California

The All Seeing Eye is the ninth jazz album by saxophonist Wayne Shorter, recorded on October 15, 1965, and released on the Blue Note label as BLP 4219 and BST 84219 in 1966.[from wikipedia]

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"Tree" Utility Box Art, Artist: Unknown, San Jose, California

In botany, a tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, usually supporting branches and leaves. In some usages, the definition of a tree may be narrower, including only woody plants with secondary growth, plants that are usable as lumber or plants above a specified height. In wider definitions, the taller palms, tree ferns, bananas, and bamboos are also trees.[from wikipedia]

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San Jose Utility Box Art, Artist: Jane Ferguson, A California City, At The Bottom of San Francisco Bay

In the United States, anonymous work is legally defined as "a work on the copies or phonorecords of which no natural person is identified as author.[from wikipedia]


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