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stormdogI posted a ton of pictures on Facebook. I don't know why. Escapism? Recapturing the feeling of calm and focus I sometimes have when doing art? Wanderlust? In any case, so those of you not on Facebook can see them, here they are!
It started with a wish to go take more photos at Lincoln Park Zoo...
Then I posted things from Baltimore, New York City, Washington DC, Pennsylvania, Mexico, Kenosha, Toronto, New Orleans, Fermilab, the Keweenaw Peninsula, Syracuse, Fort Worth, Minneapolis/St. Paul, St. Louis...
Kuma. He was a very very goodboi.
Ludington, Michigan harbor at dusk from the SS Badger.
The Breakwater at Port Washington, WI.
Somewhere in rural Illinois.
Me, by Posicat.
Grain elevator (I think) in Savanna, Il.
From the Kinzua Bridge in Mount Jewett, PA.
The Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC.
DuPont Circle Fountain, Washington DC.
Gateway Arch, St. Louis, MO.
I don't know why I'm posting all these photos. Maybe I want to be somewhere else. Maybe it's how calm and focused I sometimes feel while photographing.
I should leave work and go home now.
(And then I left work and went home yesterday.)
Marcie and I on a park bench in St. Paul, MN. Peppermint Patty is in the background.
Huh; so that's how I looked before I stress-ate myself into a 45-pound weight gain. None of that clothing fits me anymore. Well, except that hat and shoes.
I want a view camera for work like this. Even just a 4x5 press camera would be so much fun to play with.
This is the St. Paul city hall. This is a picture I show people when I talk about how I feel like Art Deco merged into Art Moderne which then was a progenitor of Brutalist work. I feel like this has a few elements of all of them.
I love public art. This is Monumental Kitty in Detroit.
And then I wrote "I don't even know what I'm doing right now."
And then I posted more photos.
More public art. This is Louis Torres' Beer Can House in Fort Worth, TX.
And my mother.
The steel mills of Hamilton, Ontario.
Danae took me out to see them the first night I was visiting there with her. She knows me.
The Michael Lee-Chin Crystal in Toronto, ON.
Post-modern architecture is so funky. I dig it.
If you'd like to make a call...
Toronto subway station.
A martial arts demo at the Ginza Festival in Chicago a few years ago.
I keep thinking think looks like the finishing move in a game of Street Fighter II.
Midwest Buddhist Temple Taiko performing with Ho Etsu Taiko at Ginza Festival 2014 in Chicago.
Bas-relief on Penn Station, Baltimore OH. Look how the allegorical woman has a winged train wheel in her hand. I *love* this shit. (I say that in the most affectionate way possible. Allegorical sculpture and art is one of my favorite things.)
"Forms in Transit" by Theodore Roszak in Flushing Meadows Park, Queens, NYC. This is one of my favorite pieces of public art; I just love it for so many reasons.
The Unisphere, in Flushing Meadows Park, Queens, NYC.
This was built by US Steel of Gary, Indiana for the '64 world's fair.
Cleopatra's Needle in NYC's Central Park.
I was in awe of this monument that was carved by hand 3500 years ago by people who may literally have thought their king was a god. And there it is; history almost close enough to touch.
Like the Ishtar Gate panels I've seen in museums, I could have looked at it for hours, lost in thought.
Workers at Mississippi River Lock and Dam no. 12 at Bellevue, IA.
Wind turbine pylon at sunset along the Wisconsin-Illinois border.
Wheel window in Union Station, Indianapolis, IN.
September sunset in Syracuse, NY.
Stairway in Lincoln Park, Syracuse NY.
I loved this park. I walked there a lot while I was living nearby.
Rolling door on a building at Fermilab, Batavia, IL
Wilson Hall atrium, Fermilab, Batavia, IL.
Fourth of July fireworks at Grayslake, IL, 2014.
A basketball game at Jol Ja, a Zapatista village and school in rural Chiapas, Mexico.
Clouds over San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico.
Road signs at Oventik, a caracol [a Zapatista governmental unit] that is essentially the public face of the Zapatistas.
The Delaware Mine in Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula.
The fountain in Jackson Square, New Orleans, LA.
Marie Laveau's House of Voodoo, New Orleans, LA. Conde Nast bought the rights to use this in an online travel article about New Orleans.
Spanish moss on a French Quarter balcony.
Fall leaves at Green Ridge Cemetery, Kenosha, WI.
My dad teaching at Indian Trail Academy in Kenosha.
And then Facebook decided to stop showing image previews in my posts, and I figured people probably aren't going to bother licking links with no images, so I stopped posting photos. Probably just as well; I should theoretically be doing other things.
It started with a wish to go take more photos at Lincoln Park Zoo...
Then I posted things from Baltimore, New York City, Washington DC, Pennsylvania, Mexico, Kenosha, Toronto, New Orleans, Fermilab, the Keweenaw Peninsula, Syracuse, Fort Worth, Minneapolis/St. Paul, St. Louis...
Kuma. He was a very very goodboi.
Ludington, Michigan harbor at dusk from the SS Badger.
The Breakwater at Port Washington, WI.
Somewhere in rural Illinois.
Me, by Posicat.
Grain elevator (I think) in Savanna, Il.
From the Kinzua Bridge in Mount Jewett, PA.
The Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC.
DuPont Circle Fountain, Washington DC.
Gateway Arch, St. Louis, MO.
I don't know why I'm posting all these photos. Maybe I want to be somewhere else. Maybe it's how calm and focused I sometimes feel while photographing.
I should leave work and go home now.
(And then I left work and went home yesterday.)
Marcie and I on a park bench in St. Paul, MN. Peppermint Patty is in the background.
Huh; so that's how I looked before I stress-ate myself into a 45-pound weight gain. None of that clothing fits me anymore. Well, except that hat and shoes.
I want a view camera for work like this. Even just a 4x5 press camera would be so much fun to play with.
This is the St. Paul city hall. This is a picture I show people when I talk about how I feel like Art Deco merged into Art Moderne which then was a progenitor of Brutalist work. I feel like this has a few elements of all of them.
I love public art. This is Monumental Kitty in Detroit.
And then I wrote "I don't even know what I'm doing right now."
And then I posted more photos.
More public art. This is Louis Torres' Beer Can House in Fort Worth, TX.
And my mother.
The steel mills of Hamilton, Ontario.
Danae took me out to see them the first night I was visiting there with her. She knows me.
The Michael Lee-Chin Crystal in Toronto, ON.
Post-modern architecture is so funky. I dig it.
If you'd like to make a call...
Toronto subway station.
A martial arts demo at the Ginza Festival in Chicago a few years ago.
I keep thinking think looks like the finishing move in a game of Street Fighter II.
Midwest Buddhist Temple Taiko performing with Ho Etsu Taiko at Ginza Festival 2014 in Chicago.
Bas-relief on Penn Station, Baltimore OH. Look how the allegorical woman has a winged train wheel in her hand. I *love* this shit. (I say that in the most affectionate way possible. Allegorical sculpture and art is one of my favorite things.)
"Forms in Transit" by Theodore Roszak in Flushing Meadows Park, Queens, NYC. This is one of my favorite pieces of public art; I just love it for so many reasons.
The Unisphere, in Flushing Meadows Park, Queens, NYC.
This was built by US Steel of Gary, Indiana for the '64 world's fair.
Cleopatra's Needle in NYC's Central Park.
I was in awe of this monument that was carved by hand 3500 years ago by people who may literally have thought their king was a god. And there it is; history almost close enough to touch.
Like the Ishtar Gate panels I've seen in museums, I could have looked at it for hours, lost in thought.
Workers at Mississippi River Lock and Dam no. 12 at Bellevue, IA.
Wind turbine pylon at sunset along the Wisconsin-Illinois border.
Wheel window in Union Station, Indianapolis, IN.
September sunset in Syracuse, NY.
Stairway in Lincoln Park, Syracuse NY.
I loved this park. I walked there a lot while I was living nearby.
Rolling door on a building at Fermilab, Batavia, IL
Wilson Hall atrium, Fermilab, Batavia, IL.
Fourth of July fireworks at Grayslake, IL, 2014.
A basketball game at Jol Ja, a Zapatista village and school in rural Chiapas, Mexico.
Clouds over San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico.
Road signs at Oventik, a caracol [a Zapatista governmental unit] that is essentially the public face of the Zapatistas.
The Delaware Mine in Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula.
The fountain in Jackson Square, New Orleans, LA.
Marie Laveau's House of Voodoo, New Orleans, LA. Conde Nast bought the rights to use this in an online travel article about New Orleans.
Spanish moss on a French Quarter balcony.
Fall leaves at Green Ridge Cemetery, Kenosha, WI.
My dad teaching at Indian Trail Academy in Kenosha.
And then Facebook decided to stop showing image previews in my posts, and I figured people probably aren't going to bother licking links with no images, so I stopped posting photos. Probably just as well; I should theoretically be doing other things.
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