Personal posts
Posts on architecture, obsessions, photography, poems, visits to art exhibits, essays, family, and or things about me organized under art, home, and work.
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Actual Civic Legislation, Actually Being Published, Reviewed, and Debated, Right Here in Chicago
Take a look at this post from the Reader's Ben Joravsky, helpfully subtitled "Mayor Daley proposes watered-down 2016 oversight to replace Manny Flores's oversight compromise". Basically it chronicles a development at City Hall yesterday, whereby Alderman Manny Flores introduced a draft ordinance requiring strict oversight of the activities of the Chicago 2016 Committee, including details…
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DuPage County Fair 2009
Here's a set of photos I took at the DuPage County Fair last month. After spending time on a real farm this summer, and seeing where people prepare cattle for showing at a real county fair, I was curious to see what a county fair in a Chicago collar county looked like. The answer is…
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Fort Royal Fourth of July > Study of a Contemporary American Family Farm
Here’s a photo essay I did about the workings of a successful American family farm in 2009: It’s a pretty good personal document (for the Coppler family– my girlfriend’s wife’s mother’s family) and general document of smaller-scale farming in north central Ohio today. I took these pictures while a tour that her uncle gave to…
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DuPage County Fair 2009 > Jimi Hendrix Painting on Music Fest Ride
DuPage County Fair 2009 > Jimi Hendrix Painting on Music Fest Ride, originally uploaded by juggernautco. There’s some awesome folk art to be had at the carnival. Complete set here.
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Herrick Lake, Wheaton, July 11, 2009
Herrick Lake, Wheaton, July 11, 2009, originally uploaded by juggernautco. A beautiful spot.