Jaco Pastorius Park Mural Project by Ciccio

[aaronamccoy]

he made hendrix look like ronald mc donald

[ShareTheSphere]

jaco did not look like an imbecile caveman.

This "artist" should work as a car repairman or something , not art of this magnitude

[RobRobiArt]

I was contacted to assist on this mural in June 09 but the Artist could not agree with those who had hired him. They told me he disapeared and asked me to finish the mural. Asking me to come in for many meetings for months on end during the summer 09 and Fall and beyond , i'd made a rendering of their new desires finally when they allowed me to begin a new concept .

[RobRobiArt]

Mainstreet (who planned the mural and hired Ciccio) told me for 8 months that I would be painting this mural. I made several concepts based on thier ideas - the final one they loved when i brought it in. I learned once again that endless talk can be a great sign of wasted time. Mainstreet wasted lots of my time making strange promises about this Mural project. Anyway , my layout of their chosen figures can be seen on my site - link on my profile here.

[RobRobiArt]

In the end , i hope it comes out great. I just wish they hadn't wasted so much of my time making endless unsolicited promises and showing no accountability for their constant neurotic blunders and yeah that includes the big B.

[broundog2]

I believe Gregory should do the mural.

[arturcarneiro]

they decided it wasn´t good enough. And i Agree, is wasn´t, the details not good, and it was´nt a good representation of Jaco, and look at the trumpet?? I think it would be good to a school work, but not for a thousand dollars Mural.

[MissTeenPaki]

@arturcarneiro - try over $20,000 . This is a case of incredible incompetemce on the part of those who hired a person whos website shows that he has no experience in portrait or figure or musician art. Nothing against Mr. Ciccio the artist here but this type of art is not his genre. Unfortunately those who work at 'Mainstreet' seem to have no experience at all in the real world of actually getting projects done right . It will be interesting to see if they fail the 2nd time.

[RatchetGUN]

I have to go there... R.I.P Jaco love u man... This is an amazing thing to do for him ^_^ deserves this and more :)

[RatchetGUN]

What happened at the end? :'(

[love4me21]

@RatchetGUN at the end they painted over it saying it was to cartoonish, they did however paint something else that looks more like jaco but at the same time they did not allow him to finish the mural

[bassmickeyd]

From what is understood is that Bob Bobbing from JPI decided it wasn't good enough and had it destroyed. He was also very much against the idea for the park from the beginning. Whether he put up the money to have it painted over or not isn't known, but it is know he's the one to put up the stink. ..... And it has left a stink all over him.

[teajayphoto]

Who made the decision to undo all of his work? What was thier motivation? Was he given any notice? What is going to happen now?

[bassmickeyd]

It seems JPI, Jaco Pastorius Inc. head spokes person Bob bobbing says JPI ownes the rights to any 'likeness' drawings made of Jaco and decided the artist rendition did not live up to his 'likeness' indicator and so I'm suspecting with the threat of a lawsuit forced the city of Oakland Park to paint over the mural. The city said they had no problem with the mural only problem they had was with Bob Bobbing, which many can contest to.