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Top of the World 2007

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Top of the World 2007
Top of the World 2007, originally uploaded by swanksalot.

Update of this photo of Jeff Zimmerman’s mural
www.flickr.com/photos/swanksalot/4284838/

Now, there is a single story structure (going to be a bank, or a fast food restaurant, or similar) blocking the mural

have to swing by over there, and see what happened.

City Farm

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City Farm
City Farm, originally uploaded by swanksalot.

Division and Laramie, or nearby.

www.resourcecenterchicago.org/70thfarm.html

Schiff Residences building in the background with what look to be wind turbines for generating electricity

Dwell Magazine write-up about the building:
www.dwell.com/articles/all-aboard-concepts.html

Homage to George L. Kelling

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Homage to George L. Kelling
Homage to George L. Kelling, originally uploaded by swanksalot.

Broken window theory in action.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_Windows_Theory

Building owned by the CTA has had a broken window for several years now.

and still has broken windows. You’d think some city official would have noticed by now

Fish head surprise

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Fish head surprise
Fish head surprise, originally uploaded by swanksalot.

Whole Foods Lincoln Park

View On Black

Wonder what John Mackey’s excuse for selling fish1 on the Seafood Watch Avoid list is?

www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/SeafoodWatch/web/sfw_facts…

Apparently Whole Foods sells grouper all over the country (as a brief Google search has informed me anyway)

Footnotes:
  1. grouper [↩]

Random Anarchists

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Random Anarchists
Random Anarchists, originally uploaded by swanksalot.

Don’t mind the blemish in the lower right corner of the snapshot.

From a May Day of years past.

beating their buckets to the rhythm of oppression

How would you prefer airlines to charge you more money?



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Alone Again

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Alone Again
Alone Again, originally uploaded by swanksalot.

or…

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alone_Again_Or

and
icio.us/qvmoag (Allmusic)

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really no connection between this photo and Love’s seminal album, Forever Changes, other than mood. But that’s enough, no?


“Forever Changes” (Love)

The Calexico version is pretty damned good too1


“Alone Again Or” (Calexico)2


“Convict Pool” (Calexico)

Footnotes:
  1. supposedly The Damned also have a version, but I’ve never heard it [↩]
  2. apparently out of print, but superseded by the Convict Pool EP [↩]

Tunnel of Blues sold

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Looks as if I sold another photo to the astute folks at St. Martin’s Press for use as a book jacket photo illustration1.

Tunnel of Blues

I’m not positive about all the details yet, but I think this is the book: Through the Cracks, by Barbara Fister

More details as I get them2…

The photo is of a viaduct on 24th Street between Canal and Stewart, heading towards our Chinese herbalist.

Footnotes:
  1. earlier this year I sold a photo for Luck of the Draw [↩]
  2. like when the publish date is, what the illustration will look like, etc [↩]