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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An Appreciation of Aaron Swartz
Aaron Swartz, an Internet freedom leader, committed suicide yesterday, January 11, 2013, in New York. On this page of his personal Web site, he gives instructions about what to do if he gets hit by a truck. One of the instructions: “Feel free to publish things people say about me on the site”. I have some…
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Community Technology Training + Me
Week-Long Computer Camp for Kids at Wright College This month I taught a course of 15 elementary and high school students in a week-long “computer camp”. We had a great set of people who were eager to learn and well-behaved. On the first day of class we learned about our backgrounds with computers and the…
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Four Short-Burst Videos of Days in London
I think I would have done well in an era of vacation slideshows given in living rooms ( This is not a wheel– it’s a carousel– “It lets us travel around and around and back home again.”) I use Vimeo instead of Kodak. And I crib music and shove as much as I can in a…
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The Hidden Wonders of Brutalist London
I like Brutalist architecture, mainly because it is an expression of human capacity for newness. Having attended the University of Illinois at Chicago, the Walter Netsch-designed “Instant Campus“, I also have a pretty good window into the deficiencies of the raw concrete mode of creating human space. Everywhere I go, I try to see and…
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Heroes / SLDXO
http://www.rdio.com/artist/David_Bowie/album/Heroes_(1999_Remaster)/ heroes-sldxo oh how i wish there was video surveillance on Fairfield a high-resolution capture of our first kiss goodbye by your car an honest lip kiss and i wrapped your arms around my neck the way i like it and i wish there was some godlike director trolling slowly in a boom, northbound with…