Category: Photography

from my archive. Chicago Botanic Garden, I believe.

Lake Michigan

I’d always believe Seymour Hersh over Dick Cheney any day of any month of any year

Chicago police boat cruising near Orleans and Wacker Drive.

RIAA attempts public shame as an adjunct to suing music lovers.

Republished (online only, I hope, since Le Monde didn’t ask):
www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2009/05/12/piratage-info…

Blagojevich street art, May Street and Hubbard underpass

Finally ran into our “beloved” ex-governor, Rod-o Blago. I had heard he was making appearances all over town, so was on the look-out.

roll your own here
www.losanjealous.com/nfc

forgot why I posted this: must have a reason (other than just Truth)

early morning at Belmont Harbor

[view large on black at my photoblog: www.b12partners.net/photoblog/index.php?showimage=200 ]

I keep meaning to get up early enough to get more photos of dawn sunlight coming up over Lake Michigan, but fail. By nature, I go to sleep after midnight, so dragging my lazy ass out of a warm bed is difficult.

This was one of the few times I managed the Herculean feat of leaving the house by 5:30 AM.

Alley door, post-processed with Pantone 292 filter

(joke is only funny if you are familiar with the Magnetic Fields album, 69 Love Songs)

Haymarket Riot memorial

This replaced the old Haymarket Riot Memorial¹

Happy May Day!

Footnotes:

1. which replaced an older memorial that was blown up by Bill Ayers and crew [↩]

Lake Michigan

or rather, foolish hearts

more archive diving: this sunrise over Lake Michigan taken after the L.A.T.E. (Long After Twilight Ends) Bike Ride.

www.lateride.org/

If I wasn’t so lazy (busy, old, whatever), I’d be awake more frequently at this magical time. The light is spectacular coming over Lake Michigan.

Marshall Fields, Evanston
www.winthropproperties.com/evanstongalleria/history.htm
The landmark, art deco building, designed by Graham, Anderson Probst & White Architects of Chicago, was completed in 1929 and survived both the depression and the WW II. The store is a smaller replica of the famous Marshall Field’s State Street store in Chicago and a twin of the store in Oak Park. It was one of the first two Marshall Field’s department stores located outside the Loop the other being in Oak Park. Many of the original working drawings have been used during the current and previous updates to the building. The store closed in 1987, and the building was turned into commercial spaces on the first floor and loft apartments on the upper four floors.

No matter what the sign reads…

[Selenium emulation]

there were two groups of “hug Givers”, but I didn’t see any successful hugs. For me, I don’t really like to be touched by strangers unless circumstances merit the contact