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.

  • Compare and Contrast: A Moment in Time on CTA-Focused Twitter Accounts

    Here’s the most recent tweet from @cta, the official Twitter account of the Chicago Transit Authority, posted seven hours ago: $1B investment to upgrade stations & infrastructure for Red Line just announced by @GovernorQuinn @ChicagosMayor & @cta Pres. Claypool Here’s the most recent tweet from @ctatweet, the unofficial Twitter account of the Chicago Transit Authority,…

  • Retention Pond Nature in Autumn

    Nature near expressways– the attempt to control flora and fauna near the strict rules of auto travel– has always been a photographic interest of mine. And Illinois autumn is spectacular to me. Here’s a set photos I took on Friday morning before Caleb’s class Halloween party. The location is just my style– a pretty large…

  • Bridges Are Not Just Metaphors

    Bridges Are Not Just Metaphors

    They are conveyances.

  • Proud To Be Part of the Independent Public Media Project

    I’m on the board of the Chicago Instructional Technology Foundation, a non-profit corporation that provides instructional programming to schools in Chicago area using frequencies (here’s our Educational Broadband Service License – WLX630) reserved by the FCC for delivery of educational programming via an EBS system. As an EBS company, we’re a part of an exciting…

  • Remembering The Summer Fair, Backwards From Autumn

    I like to think of myself as a photo documentarian. I see what exists and seek to take canonical, representative images of it. For the past three years I’ve taken a set of photos at the DuPage County Fair. Fairs are so flush with theater and sugar. Is there anything better than the 4-H Club?…