West Loop
from my 2008 photo archives
Author: swanksalot
Always good to have a second user look at things
Office toys
Mostly used to harass my cats
Shot with my Hipstamatic for iPhone
Lens: John S
Film: Float
Flash: Laser Lemon Gel
So far, this is the best Mini RC helicopter I’ve found: ‘Air Hogs R/C Havoc Heli – Navy’
Amazon:
http://bit.ly/5896u6
Golden Rail
Rail and shadows in my house, early morning light.
from my 2005 photo archives
Reading Around on January 21st
Some additional reading January 21st from 09:11 to 10:24:
- The Importance of Active Leisure | Happenchance – Photo Credit: swanksalot (and this post is written by a different Seth)
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- Gangsters & Speakeasies: Buildings of Historic Chicago « AllPropertyManagement.com – The speakeasy, 1920’s icon. When prohibition began, outlawing the sale of alcohol in the United States paved the way for criminals like Al Capone to come to fruition. And if you think prohibition stopped alcohol, well, then… the word naive comes to mind. Alcohol, if anything, was more rampant in the 1920’s. Want to make something that’s already fun even more popular?? Make it taboo. The “speakeasy” was the slang term for an establishment that illegally sold alcohol during these times. Some were seedy bars, others were extravagant nightclubs filled with the rich and famous. The Green Mill Jazz Club, still open today, was a popular speakeasy back during prohibition and at one point even owned by Jack McGurn, a right hand man of Al Capone. photo credit: swanksalot
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- • Fabriquer la ville durable au Maghreb et en Méditerranée : entre épreuves et modèles. – Illustration : swanksalot, « Solar Panels. Chicago Center for Green Technology », Flickr, 19.6.2008 (licence Creative Commons).
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Reading Around on January 20th
Some additional reading January 20th from 12:07 to 17:38:
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Stuart Carlson – 2010-01-18 – Satan’s tools, Pat Robertson and Rush Limbaugh - DIY Refrigerator Care Saves Money, Keeps Refrigerator Alive Longer – Saving Money – Lifehacker – Pippen becomes famous for his refrigerator love
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Devotion to CTA is tattooed on her foot – CTA Tattler – This woman loves maps so much — and the CTA — that she has the rail system map tattooed on the top of foot.
- Open Letter From OK Go – OK Go – Fifteen years ago, when the terms of contracts like ours were dreamt up, a major label could record two cats fighting in a bag and three months later they’d have a hit. No more. People of the world, there has been a revolution. You no longer give a shit what major labels want you to listen to (good job, world!), and you no longer spend money actually buying the music you listen to (perhaps not so good job, world). So the money that used to flow through the music business has slowed to a trickle, and every label, large or small, is scrambling to catch every last drop. You can’t blame them; they need new shoes, just like everybody else. And musicians need them to survive so we can use them as banks. Even bands like us who do most of our own promotion still need them to write checks every once in a while.But where are they gonna find money if no one buys music?
Reebie Scarab – Kodachrome
Detail of the Chicago Landmark, Reebie Storage Warehouse, Clark Street.
view bigger:
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some history:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reebie_Storage_Warehouse
www.cityofchicago.org/Landmarks/R/ReebieStorage.html
from 2009 photo archives
YMCA 1928
Pippen in Meat Locker
every time I open the refrigerator, Pippen comes running. Usually he just flops in front of the door, this time he leaped up into the meat and cheese drawer. Nut-ball.
Lots of fun smells I suppose.
Republished:
lifehacker.com/5452142/diy-refrigerator-care-saves-money-…
Reading Around on January 18th through January 20th
A few interesting links collected January 18th through January 20th:
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Change of Subject: W.W.R.D? — What Would the Republicans Do? – [Republicans]
now control the U.S. Senate, 41 votes to 59.The Democrats, based on this one very notable setback, seem poised now to attempt a strategy of retreat and appeasement, exactly as is being demanded by their harshest critics on Fox News. Evan Bayh, Barney Frank and the coalition of the pouty and lily livered seem to think voters in the fall will be drawn to the sight of their fluttering white flags.
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Chicago Transit Authority urges commuters to report photographers | Photography is Not a Crime –
The Chicago Transit Authority is so “committed to safety,” that it is urging commuters to report people committing “excessive photography/filming.” The sign posted inside the train stations places photographers on the same level as, say, a non-CTA employee walking the tracks or an unattended package or “noxious smells or smoke.”
In other words, it accuses photographers of being possible terrorists or just suicidal maniacs.
The problem is that these signs not only encourage commuters to dial 911 when seeing someone taking photos, which will tie up real emergencies, it contradicts the CTA’s own policy on photography and videography within train stations
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- Econundrum: 10 Eco-Apps for Your iPhone | Mother Jones – Econundrum: 10 Eco-Apps for Your iPhone
Progress is Inevitable
Cadillac Palace Theatre – fisheye
faux-fisheye that is.
from my 2007 archives
Odds and Ends infrared version
Before and after utilizing a faux-infrared effect in Photoshop. Sculpture Garden, Skokie.
from my 2006 photo archive
Reading Around on January 10th through January 17th
A few interesting links collected January 10th through January 17th:
- New York Times Ready to Charge Online Readers — Daily Intel – The argument for remaining free was based on the belief that nytimes.com is growing into an English-language global newspaper of record, with a vast audience — 20 million unique readers — that, Nisenholtz and others believed, would prove lucrative as web advertising matured. (The nytimes.com homepage, for example, has sold out on numerous occasions in the past year.) As other papers failed to survive the massive migration to the web, the Times would be the last man standing and emerge with even more readers. Going paid would capture more circulation revenue, but risk losing significant traffic and with it ad dollars.
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- The Climate Killers : Rolling Stone – The Climate Killers Meet the 17 polluters and deniers who are derailing efforts to curb global warming: Warren Buffett
Rupert Murdoch
Jack Gerard, President, American Petroleum
Rex Tillerson, CEO, ExxonMobil
Sen. Mary Landrieu, Democrat, Louisiana
Marc Morano, Founder, Climate Depot
Sen. James Inhofe, Republican, Oklahoma
David Ratcliffe, CEO, Southern Company
Dick Gephardt, CEO, Gephardt Group
George Will, Commentator, ABC
Tom Donohue, President, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Don Blankenship, CEO, Massey Energy
Hack Scientist, Fred Singer, Retired physicist, University of Virginia
Sen. John McCain, Republican, Arizona
Rep. Joe Barton, Republican, Texas
Charles and David Koch, CEO and Executive Vice President, Koch Industries -
- Everything That Ever Happens Is Good News For The Republicans, Corporate Media Insists – In the Senate, two Democrats will retire but six Republicans will join them. In the House, GOP retirements outpace Democrats 14 to 10.
Survivor – Halation style
Google Chrome for OSX weird bug
can anyone smarter than me tell me why the “Email Page Location” is greyed out, and there is no keyboard shortcut to email a link to a webpage?
What is the keyboard shortcut supposed to be? Maybe some other app is using it already?
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seems lame of Google to use a keyboard shortcut that is already taken, if that’s the reason