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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Husband Without the Hassle
Husband Without the Hassle Originally uploaded by juggernautco. I always like seeing goofball names for businesses. They always seem vestigal to me, harking back to a less cynical, pre-ironic economic time period. Here’s a handyman/ maintenance business in the western suburbs of Chicago called "Husband Without the Hassle"
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The Difference Makers
One of the fundamental things I’m interested in with my /obits/ obsessions is what type of contributions to the world are worthy of publishing the day after you die? One type is the improvement. It’s one thing to be Charles Richter and come up with the Richter Scale. It’s another to improve such things incrementally,…
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New Website: housingfroth.com
I started this site rigjt
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Raleigh, North Carolina: Architecture of Fayetteville Street
I traveled to Raleigh, North Carolina quite a bit for business last year. Here’s an annotated look at some of the downtown architecture in Raleigh. Here’s a pretty detailed take on the area in question. And here’s a crazy-detailed architectural survey of Raleigh from 1992.
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Lockport, IL, September 2003– Canal Building
Lockport, IL is a cool little town founded in 1830. It is one of those key cogs in the rise of commerce that is easy to forget. I spent a couple hours in Lockport in September 2003 before an appointment. Here are some pics. Here’s some text from their city website: Lockport’s rich canal heritage…