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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I Do Not Believe That Mies Van Der Rohe Would Be Pleased With These Lines
Mies van der Rohe was a badass. He made buildings with crisp continuous lines and geometric perfection. His constructions make my insides ripple in pattern w/o even knowing it. He was highly interested in lines being extended from exterior walls through interior floors and plazas. For instance, the lines of the post office on south…
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Baseball Begins, 2012.
Last week we went out to Seven Gables for the first informal workout of 2012. Felt good.
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Needed: A “Remove Recent Incident” Button on Google
Remember when weather radar reports used to reference “ground clutter” near the antennae— the clump of color that looked like it was rain, but wasn’t? We seem to have that same problem in search engine results for items that pop high in the news— ground clutter focused on recent events that stop us from having…
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Revisiting Trut in Light of Jason Russell, This American Life, and Mike Daisey
In 1997, long before Stephen Colbert ever had a show on cable, I wrote an essay for Emigre Magazine wherein I coined the term “trut”, which is the mutable concoction of facts employed for an ulterior purpose. Vote it up on Urban Dictionary, plz. Editor Rudy Van der Lans was putting together Emgire 41, “The…
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Protected: New Photos Series: Tolva on Stages
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