Single barrel, since 1753.
A birthday present 1 via Whole Foods.
Shot with my Hipstamatic for iPhone
Lens: Melodie
Flash: Off
Film: Kodot XGrizzled
I should get more of this, was pretty damn tasty
Footnotes:- last spring [↩]
Author: swanksalot
Always good to have a second user look at things
Seth and Santa 1976
Embarrassing photo of me, age of 7, sitting on Santa’s knee at Eaton Center in Toronto.
Slightly color corrected in Photoshop, but I don’t have the original to make a better scan.
My mom adds:
You didn’t want to do it because you said you were too old. But I made you, just for the photo.
…for your holiday laugh of the season…
Talking Heads Chronology
Talking Heads Chronology, originally uploaded by swanksalot.
Excited to watch this.
Shot with my Hipstamatic for iPhone
Lens: Watts
Flash: Off
Film: DreamCanvas
www.davidbyrne.com/film/TH_Chronology/index.php
Chronology pulls together live performances from across Talking Heads’ career. It starts with their earliest days at CBGB and The Kitchen in New York City in the mid-seventies, through their breakthrough years in the late seventies and on to global success in the eighties. They completed their last tour in 1983 although they would continue to make very successful albums throughout the eighties before officially breaking up in 1991. The DVD concludes with their “reunion” performance of “Life During Wartime” on their induction into the Rock `n’ Roll Hall Of Fame in 2002.This deluxe version is packaged in a hardback cover with a 48 page book containing photographs and an unexpurgated Lester Bangs essay written as a review of the “Fear Of Music” album for The Village Voice in 1979 but only ever published in a heavily edited version.
Still one of my favorite bands…
Electric Sparking Power
West Loop
just another sunset placeholder…
Haze over West Loop
Haze over West Loop, originally uploaded by swanksalot.A good portion (half? maybe more) of the photos I’ve posted to Flickr were taken in this area.
uploaded in slightly larger size than usual:
www.flickr.com/photos/swanksalot/6315763068/sizes/o/in/ph…
supposedly, this made Flickr Explore 1 sometime last night. Cool! According to BigHugeLabs Flickr Scout, currently #463 of November 5, 2011.
Footnotes:- best 500 photos uploaded on that particular day, across all of Flickr [↩]
Beaux-Arts Stacked
Smokestack of the Chicago & North Western Railway Powerhouse.
The Powerhouse remains today as the best-surviving building associated with the Chicago and North Western Railway, one of the city’s most prominent historic railroads. The building is a utilitarian but grandly-scaled example of the Beaux-Arts architectural style, noteworthy for its giant round-arched windows and fine cream-colored brick walls laid to resemble rusticated stone. The Powerhouse provided electricity and steam heat to the original terminal, standing passenger cars, and other nearby railroad facilities for over 50 years.
webapps.cityofchicago.org/landmarksweb/web/landmarkdetail…
On Clinton and Milwaukee Avenue
Fashionable Mohawks
Fashionable Mohawks, originally uploaded by swanksalot.
SoHo, somewhere, London
Never Say Never!
Shot with my Hipstamatic for iPhone
Lens: John S
Flash: Off
Film: Kodot XGrizzled
Hubbard Street, West Loop
Foreign Policy
by remote.
Actual title/artist unknown.
Hubbard Street alt-gallery, Fulton Market.
Waltzing for Dreams of Red Nights
playing with faux toy cameras instead of working
Yizkor (of sorts)
Not the right candle, but all we had at hand in the house.
The thought is what counts as we remembered all our family and friends (and others) lost to the great cleanser of death.
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html
Shot with my Hipstamatic for iPhone
Lens: Watts
Flash: Off
Film: Kodot XGrizzled
bonus, to remind us to celebrate life too, my cat, The Pope (Tampopo) crashed the shot…
A Metaphor Of Our Own
Alley, Chicago’s Loop
Raining Down at the Pawnshop
Shot with my Hipstamatic for iPhone
Lens: Melodie
Flash: Off
Film: Pistil
rain, rain, rain, rain, rain…
WordPress on my mind
Strangely enough, even after all this time, I still think about blog posts I should write, even if I never get around to actually writing them. Usually right as I am about to sleep, or just as I am waking up.
This isn’t one of those posts – I am instead testing out the newish WordPress iPad tool.
My photo site is progressing nicely, but there is some sort of problem with the thumbnails (Masonry).
Marty is visiting his mom, and isn’t able to fix this at the moment.
Perpective maintained
Shot with my Hipstamatic for iPhone
Lens: John S
Flash: Off
Film: Ina’s 1935
River North