{"id":19877,"date":"2014-05-01T09:53:43","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T16:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movinginsider.com\/?p=19877"},"modified":"2019-07-24T12:30:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T19:30:05","slug":"mobile-art-gallery-in-a-moving-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/01\/mobile-art-gallery-in-a-moving-truck\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Art Gallery in a Moving Truck"},"content":{"rendered":"

U-Haul trucks are best known for bringing people and their belongings to their new homes, but in photographer Kevin Dowling’s story, a U-Haul truck brought him something more: success<\/em>. Most artists will tell you that success in their industry requires great talent and great timing. This combination, plus a U-Haul truck all played a part in Kevin’s story. Check out his story below:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YrVzaBeX9pc&feature=youtu.be<\/p>\n

When it comes to renting a moving truck<\/a>, remember there are more uses than one with a U-Haul truck. Kevin turned his moving truck into a mobile art gallery in\u00a0an\u00a0hour and a half, using rope, binder clips, clamp lights, and a surge protector. By running rope<\/a> from the front end of the truck to the back, he was able to clip his prints to the rope using binder clips. For lighting, he duct-taped clamp lights to the ceiling running into a surge protector.<\/p>\n

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With his mobile art gallery up and running, Kevin parked his moving truck in front of a popular bar and the rest was history. Read the whole story here<\/a>. Below are some of the images he sold to an unexpected buyer:<\/p>\n

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Have you done something creative with your moving truck? Tell us below!\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

U-Haul trucks are best known for bringing people and their belongings to their new homes, but in photographer Kevin Dowling’s story, a U-Haul truck brought him something more: success. Most artists will tell you that success in their industry requires great talent and great timing. This combination, plus a U-Haul truck all played a part […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":20026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,220,6,194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-moving-2","category-movingfun","category-moving-fun","category-moving-trucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19877"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51087,"href":"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19877\/revisions\/51087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}