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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Civic Infrastructure
I was struck by this pairing on 31st Street in Long Island City. Fresh flowers with a sign written on a USPS envelope warning people not to place garbage on the curb between Wednesday and Sunday or they will receive a $100 fine. We all find our ways with the sacred and mudane.
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The promise of civic data, modernized, and elevators.
Starrett-Lehigh Building, at 90, Prepares for Its Future https://nyti.ms/34bBFSX There’s an odd cache to having a sandwich in one’s bag, and there is a confluence of four of my interests colliding into one on March 7th, 2022 in New York. This building used to have three truck elevators which are very uncommon and which I…
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My Catholicism
Sunday Mass, St Francis of Assisi Church on 31st between 6th and 7th. The singing through masks. The scent of incense, starting on your knees for Lent. People want to tell you who they are and you can’t out run God. This is my local parish when I travel to New York City, which is…
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My Opponents: Coronavirus. Unofficial Collab (Leon Thoughtsky x City of Chicago x DXO x CDC)
I admire Leon Thoughtsky— he’s one of the most thoughtful and prolific Arte Agora artists working today who is “exposing absurdity in the American dialectic one hand painted poster at a time”. In early September I encountered this piece:
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On The Same Day: Odierno y Bani-Sadr
Today’s New York Times holds two obituaries that bookend the highs and lows of Saddam Hussein.