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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New Art from Glorita at Clark and Lake
Earlier this month I bought a couple of pieces of art from an artist who often sells their stuff on the street near one of the corners of Clark and Lake in downtown Chicago. Here’s the two new pieces:
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Toward a New Model for Corporate Governance
There is something wrong with the way we build large, consumer-focused technology companies. Uber lost $21B in value because it lacked ethics and created a business by systematically breaking local law in its largest markets. Twitter helped elect a despot because they cared more about engagement numbers than building a safe product. Facebook shipped advertising…
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New art: Sandstone “Chicago”
Last night I purchased this piece in Millennium Park just north of the skating rink: When I saw him, with a number of pieces splayed in front of him, he was finishing up with another client, giving her his number so she can contact him when she gets back home. I asked him my stock…
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This Weather is Murder on Poster Glue.
Yesterday was a big day for me, poster-wise, and today the walls continued to act exactly like the sky today. I harvested four more posters by T-Money from damp walls all over Wicker Park.
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It Was a Five-Poster Day.
I collect posters. Here’s some of them. As a collector of posters, sometimes I do things that are not quite legit, like taking posters off walls for events that have not happened yet. This doesn’t make me happy, but I rationalize it to myself by saying that I am an archivist with a vision. I…