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Ass Press stories are links of last resort for me, they are usually so generically written. Won’t miss using them, if I can think of it.
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“Drudge Retort asking it to remove seven items that contained quotations from A.P. articles ranging from 39 to 79 words.” Ass Press can bite me.
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Corpoarate Media sucks, the Full Monty version for Scott McClellan
Author: swanksalot
Always good to have a second user look at things
Chris’s Billiards
store for lease, but I want that sign (poor use of apostrophe and all)
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Heathrow bound 1994 double exposure
Heathrow bound 1994 double exposure, originally uploaded by swanksalot.
Ahh, to be young again…
Your humble photographer about to leave London, combined with an inadvertent double exposure of some gravel pit outside of Austin Tx. A scan of a 35mm print, circa 1994, when I was 24 going on 65.
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links for 2008-06-14
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Sports vs. Indie Cred. The debate continues. I know when I cared more what people thought of me, I wouldn’t watch sports on principle, as if anyone gave a fuck.
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Unexpected death
Choose Your Angle
from last year’s archives. I almost cropped out the wall on the right, but decided I liked the additional perspective.
South Loop somewhere
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Navy Exchange
A recycling yard for Navy scrap
Somewhere on the north branch of the Chicago River (Skokie?)
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links for 2008-06-13
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awesome – needed this script as was getting annoying opening Office 2008 files in Eudora
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Just sad, really, that people watch Faux News
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interesting and funny, a perfect combo
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The local Korean supermarket (Super-H) has at least 50 varieties of Kimchi, but I didn’t have a camera on me at the time.
Abstraction in Yellow and Red
Slow shutter speed, and a slight twist of the lens yielded this firework abstraction
Fireworks, Navy Pier, 2007.
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Glittering Green
from last summer. The Chicago River really does usually have this color.
Chicago Police patrol the Chicago River
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links for 2008-06-12
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Attend Anger Management Classes often?
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David Stern has a major headache on his hands. Conspiracy theories are extremely hard to disprove once they lodge in public consciousness.
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how to artificially boost one’s site traffic – use terms on this page
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More bullshit for a photographer: “It’s not the first case of illegal censorship by a department that says “shoot first, hand over film later”
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I’m on record as approving the 50 State strategy. Here’s one more reason why
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“Created anonymously by a group of professional animators in about 1929, the silent short Eveready Harton in Buried Treasure is a gleeful exploration of the penetrative arts.”
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idiots, Congressmen, but I repeat myself
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Will the Kings vs. Lakers Game 6 be yanked from NBA Classics? Too much speculation otherwise, I’m guessing. Plus too much YouTubery these days, better not to give source material.
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Paul Pierce is a tough MoFo, no doubt. Knee injury was not faked, that’s not in character for him.
A Semblance of Peace
Still digging through my archives. Found this shot of an architectural detail I liked. I think the photo was taken on Wells Street because the next photo in sequence was of House of Glunz Wine Shop (Wells and Diversey).
All apologies to WB Yeats
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links for 2008-06-11
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Curt Schilling’s observations on Game 2 of NBA finals reveals that Kobe is still playing 1 on 12. Can’t be fun to be a Laker, unless you tune him out.
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“high-profile Boston University professor is prominently mentioned in the latest look at the phenomenon of “Obamacons” — well-known conservatives, many of them Republicans, who have publicly declared they will vote for Democrat Barack Obama.”
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I hope Lieberman gets stripped of all committee assignments, soon.
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This game made me sick, which is why the allegations are plausibly true
Netflixed: Baraka
Hope this film is interesting as it sounds.
The relationship between humans and their environment is the subject of this mesmerizing visual study from Ron Fricke, the cinematographer and editor of Koyaanisqatsi. The images — which Fricke gathered from 24 countries — range from the daily devotions of Tibetan monks and whirling dervishes to a cigarette factory and time-lapse views of the Hong Kong skyline. Diverse world music accompanies the visuals.
[From Baraka]
and from Larisa Moore
The word Baraka means “blessing” in several languages; watching this film, the viewer is blessed with a dazzling barrage of images that transcend language. Filmed in 24 countries and set to an ever-changing global soundtrack, the movie draws some surprising connections between various peoples and the spaces they inhabit, whether that space is a lonely mountaintop or a crowded cigarette factory. Some of these attempts at connection are more successful than others: for instance, an early sequence segues between the daily devotions of Tibetan monks, Orthodox Jews, and whirling dervishes, finding more similarity among these rituals than one might expect. And there are other amazing moments, as when sped-up footage of a busy Hong Kong intersection reveals a beautiful symmetry to urban life that could only be appreciated from the perspective of film. The lack of context is occasionally frustrating–not knowing where a section was filmed, or the meaning of the ritual taking place–and some of the transitions are puzzling. However, the DVD includes a short behind-the-scenes featurette in which cinematographer Ron Fricke (Koyaanisqatsi) explains that the effect was intentional: “It’s not where you are that’s important, it’s what’s there.” And what’s here, in Baraka, is a whole world summed up in 104 minutes
Big Bottom (Lounge)
[Lake Street El to Somewhere Else – probably taken at 1100 West Lake, give or take]
Big Bottoms drive me out of my mind! – [Spinal Tap, if you forgot.] Anyway, of special interest as 1375 W. Lake is stumbling distance from me (or one El stop away if the weather is crappy).
Bottom Lounge (1375 W Lake St.) just opened. No, seriously, I’ve friggin’ been there man. And golly, is it big—well, bigger than I imagined. So impressively large is this new live music venue that ‘lounge’ seems totally inappropriate as a part of the name. Lounges just aren’t of this size, even in truth-stretching clubspeak. Though it’s not quite as deep in the live room, it reminds me of Washington D.C.’s Black Cat (the newer one), in that the bar feels like a rocker hangout that thrives regardless of what is happening in the live room.
The entryway is bigger than some condos I’ve been in, and there’s a spacious high-ceilinged bar there with vinyl booths. The live room (with its own absinthe-serving bar) is well proportioned. The generously-scaled stage looks made to accommodate multiple Mucca Pazzas simultaneously (a scary thought), and the sound system runs through a pro-size (Midas Verona 40×8) mixing board in the front of house. I haven’t heard a band, only DJs, through the system—I was at the final night of the Our Way of Thinking mod festival with Tony the Tyger and The Dust Junkies spinning obscure mod rock and Northern soul. The sound wasn’t overly loud, and it was clear enough to get the mini-dress-and-tight-suit set out on the dance floor and close to the Nexo Alpha speakers.
[Click to see a photograph and more info at Time Out Chicago: The TOC Blog Big Bottom (Lounge)]
Probably not quite as cool as the Lounge Ax (which was also stumbling distance from me, back in the 90s), but still good to note. I can’t say I recognize any of the acts currently listed, but that doesn’t even matter. Just happy something interesting landed at that spot and not another freaking condo building.
links for 2008-06-10
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“assume Barack Obama does not have to worry very much about dominating the NBA vote. If 80 percent of southern Ohio was composed of professional basketball players, we would be out of Iraq by 2010.”
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The end result would be DVRs that are unable to record some broadcasts.
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SEO overview, which is a buzzword people are confused (sometimes) about.
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a stupid name if you askme
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I’ve never really learned much Applescript, but I use other’s scripts on a weekly/daily basis. I hope it isn’t dropped in support of Java.