Mick also visited the great High Museum of Art

the work pictured is the "hallelujah door" by Herbert Singleton,
depicting a New orleans jazz funeral

some other works currently on display in the "self-taught and folk art" division...

more of mick's tourism

from the jackson street bridge, best view of the city, constructed in response to
black residents protests after their neighborhood was bi-sected by the new highways,
used now also by daring lovers in the middle of the night, almost no car traffic, just foot traffic

This location also appeared in episode one of The Walking Dead.

piedmont park

...which references the giant falcon sculpture outside the stadium

...the largest free-standing bird sculpture in the world. Standing at 41 feet tall with
a 68-foot wingspan, this 73,000-pound stainless steel behemoth is an engineering
marvel. The sculpture was designed and assembled by 32-year-old Hungarian artist
Gabor Miklos Szoke

(i just looked at his other stuff, all big animals in public spaces, but none as
good as this falcon imo)

Raven you silly bitch, WRONG BIRD!

correction coming in a few minutes

hmm, do you know what? look carefully at the background of the official poster

damnation, that's the facade of the stadium

also, the Woodruff phoenix does not have the jagged upraised wings of the stadium falcon

How devilishly clever of you Rolling Stones

You are referencing both of Atlanta's famous birds at the same time

the shape of a flaming phoenix combined with the jagged stainless steel of the falcon

Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle's aunt

and yes i know there are some people who say the Woodruff statue is
racist because it sympathizes with the suffering of the South, and I know
they want to tear it down, but *trying to calm myself* i really don't
have anything to say to people with hearts so cold

MUST HAVE SLIPPED MY MIND:
Atlanta also has a version made of vegetation in the botanical gardens
(which is closest in shape to the Stones poster, so let's make it the 3rd reference)
and an abstract version

TRIVIA TIME: Why the team name "falcons"? and the answer is "For no sensible
reason whatsoever".  Made up out of whole cloth. Surely there might be one or
two falcons flying somewhere around here, like every other place on God's green
earth, but it makes no more sense than calling them the Atlanta Cheese Steaks,
because i'm sure you can find a few of them around here too. I'll tell you the
real reason, which is that the Naming Committee morons thought the plural of
phoenix sounded funny (pronounced fee-nuh-sees) which it surely does, but it
is not the only plural of phoenix because another name for "phoenix" is "firebird"
and that is who we ought to be, and i suggest it every year and it falls on deaf
ears, but it is the hard truth of who we are: The Atlanta Firebirds