Mona Lisa - She's everywhere you want to be

Here's a picture of a certain, nearly universally known, piece of art, oddly replicated on the window of an abandoned building on the site of the Damen Silos, in Chicago's lower west side.



I'm thinking about this one as a candidate for a convention art show.

This is actually a crop from a larger image that shows a bit more of the building. My thoughts in selecting the portion I want included the following:

*Is there too much bright green grass? Is it distracting from the picture's centerpiece, the Mona Lisa?
*Is there enough of the building present in the frame to provide context for the Lisa's location?
*Does the selection of building that's in the image act as a good frame for the content? I like the vertical brickwork at the top an the horizontal brickwork at the left that provide straight lines in to the middle, but is there too much, or too little?

I may still tweak it some as I look at it. I have a while. I may decide to take more grass out, or crop in on the right just a touch to frame between a couple of window panes. Depends on whether I want the building to seem to go on significantly off the right side of the frame, or if I want the piece to have a definite border on the right.

The more pictures I take, the more I see how much like painting it all is; the very same thought needs to be put into matters of composition and form. I see, too, how distortable reality really is through the lens. It's been a sometimes-surprising learning process.

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It turns out that I misunderstood, or misremembered, what Devin told me. He's working tomorrow, so he can't go anywhere. I'm hesitant about going to abandoned buildings alone, so maybe that won't be happening. I may go down to Chicago anyway and take pictures, or I may stay at the house and work on Ebay. Not quite sure. But I really need to get all of this stuff out of here so I can fully concentrate on things I really want to do. Not to mention have extra money in case my partner has job issues.

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While going through stuff to put on Ebay, I found one more HX4700 iPaq. These are HP PDAs. This one has a 640x480, full VGA screen that be viewed either portrait or landscape. It has onboard wi-fi and bluetooth, as well as 64MB of memory, expandable via either SD or CF card. It's running Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition version 4.21.1088.

I think this will run a VNC client. I thought for a bit about hanging onto it as a control module for my car computer, that I want to construct at some ambiguous future time. But I don't know when that's going to happen. If I really, actually want one when the time comes, I can buy another. murstein picked one of these up from me a while ago and, I think seems to like it.

On Ebay, these are averaging about 100 dollars used, and 150 to 200 new, it seems. For someone I know, I'll take 75, including shipping if necessary. If you're interested, let me know. Otherwise I'll put it on Ebay next Wednesday.

I'm also putting up a lot of 8 iPaq 3850s (old and obsolete iPaqs; ok, even more so) and a Firebox Soho 6 (new in box). serinthia, I'll let you know how much that Soho thing goes for, if anything, so we can split it.)