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The Hong Kong Willie Story
Tampa Art Galleries坦帕藝術畫廊
Famous Etsy Artist of the 60's in the now. Etsy的著名藝術家的60個在現在。 Acclaimed Florida folk artist, living the life of using objects for many uses.美國佛羅里達州著名的民間藝人，這種生活的使用對象的多種用途。 Look at the travels of life.看看旅遊生活。
Tampa Art Galleries,Tampa Art Gallery, Hong Kong Willie Etsy Art gallery坦帕藝術畫廊，坦帕藝術畫廊，香港威利Etsy的藝術畫廊
Artist Born for this time, Lived on a landfill as a child.藝術家出生的這個時候，住在一個垃圾填埋場的一個孩子。 Reuse Became the way of life.重用成為生活的方式。 To read the story from the inception of the Name Hong Kong Willie.要閱讀的故事從開始的姓名：香港威利。 Famed, by the humble statements from the Key West Citizen, viable art from reuse has found its time.著名的，由簡陋的報表中基韋斯特公民的，可行的藝術從時間找到了它的重用。 To Live a life in the art world and be so blessed to make a social impact.讓自己的生命在藝術的世界，是如此幸運，使社會影響。 Artists are to give back, talent is to tell a story, to make change.藝術家們回饋，人才是講一個故事，使變革。 Reuse is a life experience.重用是一種生活體驗。
Hong Kong Willie Art Gallery In Tampa: a reuse Etsy Art Gallery.香港威利畫廊在坦帕：重用Etsy的藝術畫廊。 Artist Kim, Derek, and Joseph.藝術家金，德里克，約瑟夫。 Reuse artists that have lived the life and are meant for the green movement in the world.重複使用的藝術家的生活和居住，目的是為綠色運動中的世界。 A gallery that was born for this time.一個畫廊的誕生為這個時間。 Artists living a freegan life, art that makes a social statement of reuse.藝術家生活在freegan生活，藝術，使社會語句的重用。 Media that has a profound effect in making the word green, truly a movement of reuse in the world today and in the future.媒體具有深遠的影響作出字綠色，真正做到了運動的重用，在當今世界和未來。
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**Best Place to Buy $1 Kitsch to $10,000 Folk Art Best of the Bay Award 2007 **最優的地方購買1美元媚俗至10,000元民間藝術的最佳的海灣獎 2007
Hong Kong Willie.香港威利。 The name of the artist.藝術家的名稱。 In 1958 his mother took Hong Kong Willie to an art class. 1958年他的母親帶閎空威利一個藝術類。 The name started then.這個名字開始，然後。 An art teacher when doing crafts out of Gerber baby bottles, made a statement, in Hong Kong reuse was common.一個藝術老師在做手工出格柏奶瓶，發了言，在香港重用普遍。 At that time he thought this was very interesting.當時他以為這是很有趣。 His father had low-land, at that time landfills were common also.他的父親有低的土地，當時堆填區也很普遍。 The county had told Hong Kong Willie's father, it was safe, but as we now know this was not so.全縣已告訴香港威利的父親，這是安全的，但正如我們現在知道這是不是這樣的。 Something can come from bad to be good.從壞的東西可以來為好。 Hong Kong Willie the name came from that art teacher impressing on that young mind that objects made for one use could be for many other uses.香港威利的名字來自這個美術老師在這幼小的心靈中留下深刻印象的對象作出一個可以利用許多其他用途。 Hong Kong for the neat concept.香港整潔的概念。 Willie for an American name.威利一個美國名字。 So for many years Hong Kong Willie had a life of reuse.因此，對於許多多年，香港威利有生命的重用。 Hong Kong Willie saw forms in a different light, His life now was meaningful, knowing this was and would be his life.香港威利看到了形式不同的光，他現在的生活是有意義的，知道這是和將是他的生命。 Art made from found objects, making less of a footprint on this world.藝術製成的發現物體，從而使較少的足跡在這個世界上。 Art and art teachers, HOW IMPORTANT.藝術和美術教師，多麼重要。 For the ones that have, and the ones who have not.對於那些有，和那些誰沒有。 Media can be found.媒體可以找到。 Now 50 years later, we know now being green is important.現在 50年過去了，現在我們知道綠色是重要的。 We need to look at this very carefully.我們必須非常仔細地看看這個。 Our children and our world need a different understanding.我們的孩子和我們的世界需要一個不同的理解。 Objects can be used in many different ways.對象可以被用在許多不同的方法。 Hong Kong Willie the tons of objects in his life that have been used, without much change, So for that art teacher what she did for my life.香港威利噸的對象在他的生活已被使用，沒有太大變化，因此，對於什麼是美術老師是為我的生活。 Thank You.謝謝你。 I still have the Gerber baby bottle till this day.我仍然有嘉寶嬰兒奶瓶，直到這一天。 Hong Kong Willie.香港威利。
Hong Kong Willie Key West Artist and Tampa Tourist Attraction.香港威利基韋斯特藝術家和坦帕的旅遊景點。 Hong Kong Willie: Group of artists telling how to use objects for many different purposes.香港威利：集團的藝術家告訴如何使用對象為許多不同的目的。 Looking outside of the box, learning to find solutions in a positive way.看外面的框，學習找到解決辦法，以積極的方式。 Complaining without a solution is like trying to wake a dead man.抱怨沒有辦法解決的，無異於喚醒一個死人。 Nothing is going to happen.沒有什麼事情發生。 The solution to leaving less of a foot print on this earth is left to each one of us.在離開該解決方案少一個腳印留在這個地球上每一個我們。 Finding the positive side and focusing positive energy is change for the good.尋找積極的一面，重點是積極的能量變化為好。 Hong Kong Willie has for many years looked outside of the box.香港威利多年來一直看著外面的框。 Take a look at the other story told by University of South Florida on ways to change and the social impact we all can make.看看這個故事告訴其他南佛羅里達大學就如何改變和社會影響，我們都可以做。 To live and help and not complain and spend that energy to leave less of a foot print is a good thing.為了生活和幫助，而不是抱怨，花較少的能量離開一個腳印是一件好事。
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New Tampa Patch
By Tristram DeRoma
The Story Behind the Eye-Catching Art at I-75 Exit 266 Tampa Florida
Famous Recycling Artist
Joe Brown, better known as "Hong Kong
Willie," makes art with a message at his home/studio near
While attending an art class in 1958 at the age of 8, Legendary Recycling Artist, Joe Brown recalled being mesmerized by the lesson. It involved transforming a Gerber baby bottle into a piece of art.
“The Gerber bottle had no intrinsic value at all,” he said. “But when (the instructor) got through with me that day, she made me see how something so (valueless) can be valuable.”
By the time class was over, Brown learned many other lessons, too, such as the importance of volunteerism, recycling, reuse and giving back to the community. He recalled being impressed by the teacher's volunteer work in Hiroshima, Japan, helping atomic bomb survivors.
"One of the last words she ever spoke to me about that was, ‘When I left, I left out of Hong Kong,’ ” he said. After turning that over in his young brain for awhile, he decided to use it in a nickname, adding the name “Willie” a year later.
You've probably seen Hong Kong Willie's eye-catching home/gallery/studio at Fletcher Avenue and Interstate 75. But what is the story of the man behind all those buoys and discarded objects turned into art?
Brown practiced his creative skills through his younger years. But as an adult, he managed to amass a small fortune working in the materials management industry. By the the '80s, he left the business world and decided to concentrate on his art. He spent some years in the Florida Keys honing his craft and building his reputation as a folk artist. He also bought some land in Tampa near Morris Bridge Road and Fletcher Avenue where he and his family still call home.
Brown purchased the land just after the entrances and exits to I-75 were built. He said he was once offered more than $1 million for the land by a restaurant. He turned it down, he said, preferring instead to make part of the property into a studio and gallery for the creations he and his family put together.
And all of it is made of what most people would consider “trash.” Pieces of driftwood, burlap bags, doll heads, rope — anything that comes Brown’s way becomes part of his vocabulary of expression, and, in turn, becomes something else, which makes a tour of his property somewhat of a visual adventure. What at first seems like a random menagerie of glass, driftwood and pottery suddenly comes together in one's brain to form something completely different. One moment nothing, the next a powerful statement about 9/11.
One Man's Trash ...
Trash? There is no such thing, Brown seems to say through his art.
He keeps a blog about his art at hongkongwillie.blogspot.com. He also sells his creations through the Website Etsy.com.
In his shop, he has fashioned many smaller items out of driftwood, burlap bags and other materials into signs, purses, totes, bird feeder hangars and yard sculptures.
He sells a lot to the regular influx of University of South Florida parents and students every year who are are at first intrigued by the “buoy tree” and the odd-looking building they see as they take Exit 266 off I-75.
Brown Sells More Than Art
Of course, the real locals know Brown’s place for the quality of his worms.
If there’s one thing that Brown knows does well in the ground, it’s the Florida redworm, something he enthusiastically promotes, selling the indigenous species to customers for use in their compost piles. Some of his customers say his worms are just as good at the end of a fishing hook, though.
“To be honest, what made me come here is that they had scriptures on the top of his bait cans,” said customer John Brin. “Plus, they have good service. They’re nice and they’re kind, and they treat you like family.”
Though Brin knows Brown sells them mostly for composting, he said they are great for catching blue gill, sand perch and other local favorites. He also added that he likes getting his worms from Brown “because his bait stays alive longer than any other baits I’ve used.”
For prices and amounts, he has another blog dedicated just to worms.
Of course, many people also stop by to buy the smaller pieces of art that he and his family create: purses made of burlap, welcome signs made of driftwood, planters and other items lining the walls of his store.
He’s also helped put his mark on the decor of local establishments too, such as Gaspar’s Patio, 8448 N. 56th st.
Owner Jimmy Ciaccio said that when it came time to redecorate the restaurant several years ago, there was only one person to call for the assignment, and that was his good friend Brown.
"I’ve known Joe all my life, and we always had a good chemistry together,” Ciaccio said. "He’s very creative and fun to be around, and that’s how it all came about.”
Ciaccio says he still gets compliments all the time for the restaurant’s atmosphere he created using the “trash” supplied by Brown. He describes the style as a day at the beach, like a visit to Old Key West. “They’re so inspired, they want to decorate their own homes this way,” he said.
It’s that kind of testimony that makes Brown feel good, knowing that others, too, are inspired to create instead of throw away when they see his work. He simply lets his work speak for itself.
“Somebody once told me to keep telling the story and they will keep coming," he said, "and they always do."
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