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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NYT Archive > Hellen Keller
Here’s a great obituary for Helen Keller, with excerpt: Despite the celebrity that accrued to her and the air of awesomeness with which she wassurrounded in her later years, Miss Keller retained an unaffected personality and acertainty that her optimistic attitude toward life was justified. “I believe that all through these dark and silent years,…
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God Bless Tom Cruise
Now I don’t often write about current affairs here, preferring to stick with original ideas and goofball documentation over bloggy links and comments. But I have to post about Tom Cruise and Alessandra Staley‘s take on his lecture of Matt Lauer yesterday. I really think she’s on to something. And he went way off on…
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My Father’s Desk
My Father’s Desk – 1 Originally uploaded by juggernautco. In honor of Father’s Day, here’s a look at the desk of my father, who passed away in January. Here’s a larger look and another one.
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Richard Koppe: 15 Drawings
koppe_cover Originally uploaded by juggernautco. Here are scans of a limited edition piece by underappreciated Bauhaus guy Richard Koppe. I bought this for $3 in a garage sale in the Western suburbs of Chicago. There is very little info on the internet or even at the library about Richard Koppe. He hung…
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My Father’s Books
jj_books_3 Originally uploaded by juggernautco. My father passed away earlier this year. I took these photos of the bookshelf in his office. Here’s a larger resolution of this one, which includes such selections as Gardner’s Art through the Ages and In Search of Certainty. Here’s two more high-res including The Road Less Traveled…