8.21.05
Over budget and behind schedule (big shock there) the shiny new Cloud Gate is (partially) revealed.
Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Polished "Bean"
8.21.05
Over budget and behind schedule (big shock there) the shiny new Cloud Gate is (partially) revealed.
Cowpie Blues Festival 2005
8.13.05Shagbark Farm. Alaska, MI.
Pardon my self idulgence, but a little side note...I asked Penny to marry me from this same stage about two hours after this picture was taken.
She said yes.
Water Fall
8.12.05The green neon obscured by the falling water is the sign for Dublin's Pub on State where it crosses Rush Street.
Champs!
8.10.05The Hotel League 2005 summer softball season came to a glorious finish with the Sutton Place team (that's me holding the ball...#1 WOOOOO!) claiming victory after their stunning 11-9 victory over the two-time defending champion Hyatt.
Lifeguard Daydream
8.08.05While most people daydream about being at the beach, and the seagull daydreams of all the fish in lake Michigan, I saw this lifeguard staring dreamily toward the skyline.
The Chessplayer
8.07.05
Yes, I know that Chessplayer should be two words...but it's my picture and I'll call it whatever I damn well please. There's something about this pic that reminds me of the Picasso painting The Old Guitarist (1903). Is that egotistical of me?
Monarch in the Park
8.02.05.Perhaps inspired by this butterfly (and knowing a little about the process of cocooning and rebirth) I've decided it's time for a new look. Not for me, but for the site.
The images will now be larger and come with clever (or maybe not) titles. Any input on the look of the site, the pics themselves or anything else you have on your mind is greatly
Thursday, August 11, 2005
Monday, August 01, 2005
7.22.05
There's an old saying: the mirror never lies (neither does the camera), but it can distort. While not as well known (or as large) as Cloud Gate (the "bean"), this piece near pn Illinois just east of Michigan Avenue is an interesting (and lonely) piece of public art. Not everyone can be a rock star.
Sunday, July 31, 2005
Tuesday, July 19, 2005
Friday, July 15, 2005
I'm going to take the occasion of my 38th birthday (as it's just passed midnight and is now officially the 15th) to write the following disclaimer:
Looking back over the last week or so I realized one of the problems with waiting a few days to post a series of backlogged photos - sometimes I post them out of order. The fact that I put July 1 after July 2 in no way indicates that the space/time continuum was altered for a week during the summer of 2005, but is, rather, indicative of the fact that I can be, on occasion, disorganized, scattered, lazy, and that I’m bad with numbers.
Looking back over the last week or so I realized one of the problems with waiting a few days to post a series of backlogged photos - sometimes I post them out of order. The fact that I put July 1 after July 2 in no way indicates that the space/time continuum was altered for a week during the summer of 2005, but is, rather, indicative of the fact that I can be, on occasion, disorganized, scattered, lazy, and that I’m bad with numbers.
Thursday, July 14, 2005
7.13.05 Great-Great Grandparents
Ok, I didn’t actually take this picture. But this blog is a record of (mostly) digital photographs, and digital photography can be about more than just convenience.
These are my mother’s great-grandparents. The photo she gave me was decades old, filthy, and…oh yeah – torn in half. With my relatively cheap (and under-powered computer and inferior software versions) I was able to splice it back together, clean up the largest scars and return it to the B&W glory it was created in.
And I printed it all on my $99.00 Canon Mp360. (4 by 6 and 8 by 10.)
A picture that would have soon been lost (it’s literally crumbling) is now stored on my hard-drive and in cyberspace, ready to be printed at anytime, for generations to come.
7.12.05 Egg Drop Soup with Howard Zinn
Taken at Y2K Chinese and Sushi on Diversey.
I've been reading a lot of non-fiction lately and I'm working on Howard Zinn's Declarations of Independence. I didn't care much for politics (and all that it entails) until the election of 2000 (shortly after turning 33.)
I still read a lot of fiction, but now I feel can't read enough about everything from history to policy to ideology...and I have a lot of catching up to do. I recently finished David Brock's Blinded by the Right.
My currently waiting list includes Chomsky's Power and Terror and 9-11, the Clinton biography First in His Class and his memoir My Life, Stephanopoulos’ All Too Human, and Atlas Shrugged.
7.11.05 Stolen From Eng. 55
I'd noticed recently that firehouses had been opening their hydrants and letting water pour into buckets and eventually over into the nearest gutter. I was thinking, "What a waste of water." Then I was told it was for passing dogs, and I thought, "What a great use of water." It’s been a warm summer and dogs need drinking fountains too. It's like a doggy powder room...they can sniff for other dogs, take a piss, get some water and wash their paws all at the same one-stop location.
7.10.05 Sunday in the Park
This summer has been hot and humid (the driest since the 1930's), and in Chicago that means hazy. Chicagoans are used to extremes in weather, and there's no way we're staying indoors in July (we'll be inside plenty from October through May).
This is a more "traditional" shot: skyline, leafy green trees, the aesthetically pleasing zigzag of boaters, reflection on the lagoon and ducks in neat, symmetrical rows. And it fits the 20-year rule.
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