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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Open Data Product Idea: “City Worker Worth Modules”
One of the staples of municipal data is the Payroll Database. Long before the Emanuel administration released salary, position, and title information for every worker on the City’s data portal, organizations like the Chicago Sun-Times and the Better Government Association had done the work of requesting and publishing salary information. These databases are usually pretty…
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Wedding Photographer With Subjects, Wrigley Building, July 2011
I find it sublime to capture the capturer.
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Shed in Hilliard, Ohio on the Fourth of July
I kind of love this picture.
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Featured: Fallen trees
Here’s a set of images I took of a couple of trees on the North Branch Trail near Skokie and Morton Grove that fell in epic fashion after last week’s storm. I like to think of the sounds and power that were unleashed in the moment. This old three was in the wrong place at…
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The Sadness of Deferred Maintenance at the State of Illinois Building
I have always loved goofball architecture. I can’t pass a Brutalist structure without stopping to marvel at it. And there was nothing goofier than the State of Illinois Building (160 North LaSalle St.) when it opened in 1985. I went by there the other day and was bummed to see how muffed up the place…