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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You Never Know Where Quality Information Will Come From
This is an object lesson for those trying to wrest meaning from short messages published to the Internet. This Twitter user, @ForeverKimK, runs a Kim Kardashian fansite: foreverkimk.tumblr.com/. The user also posted a timely (7:12PM on Dec 26, 2011) photo indicating that there was trouble on the Red Line tonight. The CTA posted a mild…
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On A Walk, Christmas Day 2011
We took a walk in Lincoln Park yesterday in bright blue Chicago. Here are some pics. Bench overlooks barren great garden and waits for lush return. I have no idea what kind of trees these are that produce such bright orange limbs: The sublime blues of Jeanne Gang’s People’s Gas Education Pavilion seem so stark:…
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In Praise of Wolfgang Oehme
This morning I read the obituary of landscape architect Wolfgang Oehme in the NYT. Here’s a snip: For 30 years, Mr. Oehme teamed up with James van Sweden to develop self-sustaining gardens, free of pesticides, that could remain beautiful even as the seasons changed. They planted flowers and bushes not by threes and fives, but…
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Three Window Washers Race to Clean Mies
I work in a complex created by Mies van der Rohe in 1970. This pleases me. This morning I noticed these workers getting started on their day. Maintenance is key.
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Peoples Gas Education Pavilion at Night
I’m somewhat obsessed with this place— one of our great public spaces.