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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These Public Health Illustrations by Jack Davis Are My Current Fascination
Upon arrival at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport this week I noticed a whole slew of 3/4-scale illustrations of people demonstrating proper public health practices. The cardboard cutout-style pieces had a familiar and anachronistic feel— vaguely 70s, full of a whimsy that had been common in public communications but has fallen out of favor. I was…
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Suburban Land Use and the Resurrection: a Photo Essay for Easter Sunday
Recently, through a Google image search I ran on this image, I learned of a building in Wheaton that was repurposed from a factory to a church. Here’s a snippet of a story about the transformation: “Wheaton church transforms old factory into new home“: The original factory was designed by David Haid, the architect behind the…
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New Posters, Austin, SXSW, March 2018
I was in Austin last week for SXSW Interactive. As is my wont, I purchased and otherwise obtained a number of posters.
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Current Book Projects, March 2018
I have been down-low working on a number of book projects, and I want to list them here, if for no other reason than it will force me to work on them harder. Recovery / Hospice: A Memoir This is a chronological account of my mother’s death, covering the 8 weeks from when she fell…
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Art Reaction: Leroi Jones and His Family, Bob Thompson, 1964
Babylon Revisited was the first poem I ever memorized, and loved, and could recite at will. It was horrible /bile- full but the words were beautiful. They flowed from a mouth. Impossible to speak them gentle or slow, so many near-rhymes and walls and spits.