Press, Laurie Giardino

PRESS

Herald News

One-of-a-kind memorials

by Bill Ervolino

September 27, 2010

	Welcome to Studio Visit, P.S.1’s new web initiative that offers virtual presentations of artists’ studios. Emerging artists working in the five boroughs and greater New York area are invited to upload video or still images of their studios and work.
April 2010

Chronogram Magazine	written by Brian K. Mahoney
December 28, 2006

Gallery Press Release	by Leigh Ross
November 30, 2006

Herald News Article

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Written by Erik Ortiz

January 2, 2003

Weird NJ	Weird NJ Video - In the Beginning Part 1 Sal's light bulb appears in several news spots on the timeline 2:05, 5:58, 6:30 and 7:08. Weird NJ Video -In the Beginning Part 2 Sal's light bulb appears at 0:56 and again at 1:53.
videos on youtube from the 90's

Weird NJ the book.

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December 28, 2006

Sgobba Monument Works	Tri-fold brochure featuring Sal and Kim's monuments.

NY Times Magazine

Baroque is Back!

July 20, 1997

an article about tombstones and a reference to Sal's monument.

Links to websites that mention the "World's Greatest Electrician" light bulb monument		The Wanderer "a site about ghost towns, abandoned places, places with little known or forgotten history, roadside curiosities, and the occasional tourist trap."
Weird but True Strange and Unusual Tombstones By becauseilive	Get Lit, Stay Lit "Z Best Bulb Blog in Z World" This is a light bulb blog and has a post about Sal's light bulb monument dated Jan 13, 2009.	Weird NJ - Website, Light bulb grave Weird NJ -Google Books, pg 226-227
Art & Architecture of New Jersey "Gravestones - most unusual" The Richard Stockton College of NJ	Lostinjersey Blog Laurel Grove Cemetery	The IBEW: International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 1245
Find a Grave Sal Giardino	New Jersey Cemeteries and Tombstones Google Books, "New Jersey Cemeteries and Tombstones: History in the Landscape By Richard Francis Veit, Mark Nonestied" Kim and Sal are mentioned on pages 255-256.	Monument Photos By Sheena 2.0, Sheena Chi on Flickr
Roadside America Light Bulb Grave of World's Greatest Electrician	De 10 tøffeste gravsteinene - Pondus	Archeology & Material Culture Marker Description, Seriation Exercise Dr. Mullins -Indiana University. Sal's light bulb is pictured.
Headstones to die for by Jimmy Greenfield	Tennessee St. : World's Greatest Electrician -a poem	Panoramio -World's Greatest Electrician at Laurel Grove