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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Aftermath of Car Crash on Randolph at Michigan Avenue
Here are some pictures from a car accident this morning. Here’s a news article that may contain descriptions of this scene: http://chicago.suntimes.com/news-chicago/7/71/310185/gov-rauner-unhurt-loop-crash-involving-motorcade. Click any of these images to see them in higher resolution and download them for use. They are licensed as Creative Commons – Attribution.
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Uber and the Open Government Data Movement
Yesterday was something of an odd watershed for the open government data movement. Uber, the private transportation giant that has done, in the main, whatever it damn well pleases in cities all over the world (though there has been a growing regulatory backlash) announced a data sharing partnership with the City of Boston. There is…
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On Joining the Board of Directors of the Sunlight Foundation
Today the Sunlight Foundation announced that I, along with three others, have joined their board of directors. Snip: the Sunlight Foundation announced that Sue Gardner, Allison Fine, Mark Horvit and Daniel X. O’Neil would join its board of directors. “As we begin a new chapter here at the Sunlight Foundation, we are thrilled to add these four…
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Why I Take Pictures
Earlier this week, my youngest son played in his middle school basketball championship game. I got there early, and was setting up my camera. The JV game was finishing up, and it got pretty dramatic. The game was tied at 26. The visiting team— a set of sixth and seventh graders from a small league that…
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New Conceptual Art Project for 2015: COLLABORATION STOCK PHOTOS
Stock photography is abysmal. Over the last decade or so, I have attempted to change this fact in a couple of concrete ways: I have published more than 35,000 photos to Flickr licensed under Creative Commons with all my stuff I have maintained a Tumblr called Chicago Stock Photographer with what I perceive to be…