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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Logan Square Land Use: Mega Mall Block Through Time — Emptiness, Movie Theaters and Auto Dealerships
Lately, after having been schooled by architecture & design educator Jen Masengarb on the topic, I have had a mini-obsession with Sanborn Fire Maps in Chicago. She obtained a set of maps for the area around my apartment in Logan Square for 1896, 1921, and 1950 and helped me (and some other nerds) analyze these…
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Picturing Pitching O’Neils
I like to take pictures. I like my children. I like it when my children pitch. I like talking pictures of my children pitching.
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Life is Cinematic
Children play in an enormous puddle while adults play soccer near Lane Tech. Storm rolls in over construction site as well.
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Flora of Laguna Beach
Last week Shawn-Laree and I were in Laguna Beach, CA and I took as many shots as a I could of the amazing oceanfront fauna. Here's the whole set. Correction: this, of course, is flora, not fauna. Thanks, Kathleen!
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War Plane and Tank in West Chicago, IL (Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6791)
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