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.

  • Methods for Collecting and Analyzing Information About Oneself

    Take a gander at this post over here: https://medium.com/@danxoneil/methods-for-collecting-and-analyzing-information-about-oneself-d74b17916f62#.c34re788x.

  • Some Folders Under PoetryAndTechnology.com

    As is my custom and joy at the end of the year, I am going through some old online material and cleaning stuff up. As is often the case in any reminiscences, the father I go back the more interesting it gets. Before there was easy online storage, I used to put things into subfolders…

  • Language Used in Scoring Cattle

    tl;dr: Here’s a video I made of a cattle show judge, capturing the language he used to score: This September I finally made it to the Wyandot County Fair in Ohio. Shawn-Laree’s mother was born and raised on Fort Royal Farm in Cary, Ohio, and this is the county fair that has been central to…

  • Full Circle on an Art Show at The Cultural Center

    I was going through my computer, managing all of the video I’ve collected over the last few months, and I realized that I had a pretty nifty round trip experience with the Chicago Cultural Center. A few months back, I was walking through the first floor and saw they were setting up a new show…

  • The Mayor + Accountability

    It has been a remarkable couple weeks here in Chicago since a judge forced the release of a video showing the murder of Laquan McDonald. I could link all day/ all night to the pressure for the resignation of Mayor Rahm Emanuel. In the news, in opinion, in the streets. I supported Rahm Emmanuel for election in both 2011…