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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Oba Maja, Poet
Oba Maja Mural Originally uploaded by juggernautco. Oba Maja is a street poet here in Chicago. He stands at the corner of North, Milwaukee and Damen & hawks his wares– photocopies of handwritten poems. One day he told me that someone had done a mural of him at Lake & Damen. Lo and…
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Lee Godie Vase
Here’s a pic of my favorite piece of art: a framed painting by Lee Godie, a legendary Chicago folk artist who used to seel her stuff outside the Art Institute. Here’s text from Carl Hammer’s site, where there is also a ton more images: In 1968, a French Impressionist artist appeared on the stairway of…
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What I Learned on LaSalle Street
1/ Dress Barn is making a big bet on tweed this Spring2/ Icarus is still flying way too close to the sun
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Daydream Cemetary
So I went on a business trip to LA last week and I sat in on a sort of side meeting that I didn’t have to lead and didn’t really have anything to do with. I had a mix of things going on: the mild disorientation of a cross-country fly-in trip, the new-to-me topography of…
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Demolition of Sun-Times Building, January 2005
Originally uploaded by juggernautco. Here are some photos I took from the ground floor and 37 floors above the demolition of the Sun-Times Building in Chicago to make way for the new Trump Tower. Here’s some stuff on the new building from Emporis: * The building was originally planned with a large office section…