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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Wi-Fi Metra West Line Wifi Connections
Near Downtown Elmhurst, originally uploaded by juggernautco. An unscientific take on wi-fi connections while riding westbound from Ogilvie Metra station toward Elburn, wherein I take screenshots at random times during the trip just to see what’s what (i.e. how people name their networks, what businesses are where, and how to find a travel agent to…
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New Project: 10 Bucks for the Sign
10 Bucks For The Sign So I have this idea for a project for about 15 years but I’ve never executed on it. Instead of actually doing it, I’m going to publish it here as a piece of conceptual art. “10 Bucks For The Sign” is an art & economics project as follows: * If…
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Pentagon – Military Analysts – TV Network Collusion Story is Still Nowhere
Two Sundays ago I read pretty much the best, most researched, most stunningly dead-to-rights piece of investigative reporting that I had ever read. The New York Times, out of the blue, published "Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand", which chronicled, in a devastatingly detailed 7,000 word report, the nefarious and direct connections between what retired…
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Mexico’s Virtual Kidnappings
Now that’s a telephone threat. Exploiting Real Fears With ‘Virtual Kidnappings’ – New York Times. The twist is that little Pablo or Teresa is safe and sound at school, not duct-taped to a chair in a rundown flophouse somewhere or stuffed in the back of a pirate taxi. But when the cellphone call comes in,…
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Steve Walters / Screwball Press > Daley Posters
Steve Walters / Screwball Press > Daley / 1968 Double Print, originally uploaded by juggernautco. I love the work of Steve Walters. When they write the books about the (continuing) silkscreen poster movement in Chicago, he is Chapter 1 in all of them. I have three pieces of his that riff on the same big…