across the street from the Art Institute Lions.
Slightly modified in Photoshop
(really just a test to see if my WordPress software is messed up. My main page doesn’t seem to be updating with new posts even though the individual posts exist)
Category: Photography
Photos on your screen are nice, but photos on your wall are better!
Framed, ready to hang prints, as well as licenses for reproduction in print and online, are available for order from my photography site — click here.
Brunch Omelette with Ramps
wiki entry
Brunch Omelette with Ramps, originally uploaded by swanksalot.
My first time eating a ramp. Yummy.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allium_tricoccum
[quote]
attempted an omelette, but it broke right at the end, so was actually more of a fancy variant of scrambled eggs (with crimini mushrooms, green olives, goat milk mozzarella, Breadsmith rye bread, potatoes, and local farmer’s eggs). Most everything from Irv and Shelly’s Fresh Picks, a farmer’s market delivery service.
The ramps (allegedly Chicago was named from the Potawatomi name for wild onion – Checagou) were delicious. I cooked the white part in butter with my other ingredients, and added the green tops towards the end.
Metaphoric
Tinted in Photoshop
(sign reads: My Love for You is Like a Shiny Heart-Shaped Metaphor About the Sea)
Knuckle Down
Uptown, 1200 block of some street crossing N Broadway. Snapshot out of a car window.
[view large on black at my photoblog: www.b12partners.net/photoblog/index.php?showimage=194 ]
Reflections upon a fragile life
alley in the West Loop
Lobbying vs Good Policy
Drug companies are fretting that their huge advertising budgets won’t be large enough to sell their expensive drugs at the expense of cheaper generics, so are ramping up lobbying efforts.
U.S. drugmakers led by Merck & Co. and Biogen Idec Inc. are stepping up their fight against President Barack Obama’s move to encourage cheaper medical care.
Already the biggest spender on influencing policy, the drug industry is hiring well-known individuals, some with stories of personal battles against disease. They include Tony Coelho, a former House Democratic leader who has epilepsy; Andrea LaRue, counsel to Tom Daschle when he was Senate Democratic leader; and the firm of Democratic fundraiser Tony Podesta, brother of Obama adviser John Podesta.
The firepower shows the drug industry’s resolve to stop Obama from using comparisons of medical treatments to force cuts in health costs. More than half of medical care may be based on insufficient evidence of effectiveness, the Congressional Budget Office said in March. Meantime, the Health and Human Services Department says all medical spending will probably rise this year to $2.5 trillion, or 18 percent of the economy.
“The companies fear that older generic drugs might very well turn out to be better than the newer advertised drugs, which bring in much more of a profit,” said Julian Zelizer, a history and public affairs professor at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey. “In difficult economic times, the drug companies don’t want to take any risks, so they are bringing out the biggest lobbyists in the business.”
[Click to continue reading Merck, Biogen Boost Lobbying to Defy Obama’s Drug Comparisons – Bloomberg.com ]
Pathetic, but will undoubtedly be effective. In these sorts of matters, money usually trumps good policy. Would be surprised if the Obama administration (and 111th Congress) would be any different.
Posing One Way
downtown gawking at the tourists
view large on black at my photoblog:
www.b12partners.net/photoblog/index.php?showimage=197
using Tri X 400 emulation
Trains Coming, and Going
Wellington stop, north side of Chicago
bathed in twilight blue
Public Housing For The Birds
Public Housing For The Birds, originally uploaded by swanksalot.
The more I look at this, it is supposed to be a Chicago Housing Authority birdhouse, complete with fire stained windows, boarded up windows, etc.
Clarke House Museum
Majestic Corn Silo
presumedly corn, though could be some other grain I suppose.
[view large on black: www.b12partners.net/photoblog/index.php?showimage=187 ]
Kodak Ultra Color 100UC (emulation, that is)
Power of Less, The: The Fine Art of Limiting Yourself to the Essential…in Business and in Life
Streams of Whiskey (trucks) Republished
Everyone should have at least one slow-motion shot of traffic in their (flickr) stream, right?
(title in homage to Shane MacGowan of the Pogues, et al)
I complain when my work gets reused without permission, but after Brian Solis of Techcrunch used this photo (with proper attribution), I found at least 5 websites that copied his entire, fairly long article verbatim, republishing it without bothering to link to the original. Theft in other words. At least since the original had a link to my Flickr photo, these thieves link to me as well.
Cruising with Rae Bourbon – Around the world in 80 Ways
A vinyl record shop on N. Clark St., with a slightly soiled recording of Rae Bourbon, called Cruising with Rae Bourbon: Around the World in 80 Ways. How could I not take a photo of it?
35 mm, scanned years ago. I didn’t buy the LP, I was pretending to be a mimimalist then. Also, the album next to it says "Delightfully Continental", but was some unrelated German polka music.
One of these Things is Not Like the Other
anti-Olympic fever! Catch it!
(his sign reads: No Money; No Jobs; No Green Games; No Community Benefit; No Pride; They Play You Pay )
can’t make out the website…
tail end of a Critical Mass bike rally
Forty Year Old Face
when you are 21, for instance, 40 seems a long, long distance away. Then suddenly, you are 40.
photo actually taken the day after, so I’m a bit puffier than normal from being so hung-over.
Luck of the Draw Book Cover
Sold this image1 to St. Martin’s Press to be used as a book cover for a forthcoming murder mystery by Anthony J Cardieri. Hard cover, print run of less than 10,000, scheduled to be released by the end of the year, but I’m still fairly pleased. Received my check today2, on my birthday, so am less maudlin than normal for a birth day.
here is the preliminary mock-up of the cover, which looks like what Amazon.com has listed as well:
“Luck of the Draw: A Crime Novel” (Anthony J. Cardieri)
When Detective Deke Durgess finds himself at the scene of a brutal murder in Lower Manhattan, he has no idea that it’s just the beginning of the most prolific murder spree in New York City history, one where entire families will be wiped out by a vicious killer dubbed The Daily Killer.
The murders are being meticulously committed, with no forensic evidence left behind except for the killer’s callous calling card, a short note left on the body of the victim. The mayor and police commissioner are coming down hard on Deke to make progress, but Deke and his team of detectives and FBI agents are at a standstill until a series of events, and one misstep by the killer, leads them toward cracking the code in the victim selection pro – cess. Believing he knows where the killer will strike next, Deke sets up a sting operation, only to be slapped back down as the killer turns the tables on him, forcing the police department to take a good hard look at its own finest.
Anthony J. Cardieri’s first crime novel is an adrenaline-charged ride through the streets of New York.
About the Author
ANTHONY J. CARDIERI has worked for the city of New York for the past 18 years and currently serves as District Superintendent in the Department of Sanitation. He lives with his wife and three young children in New York City.
Buy a copy! Support the arts! Whoo hoo!!
Footnotes:- the image was of an actual murder that took place about a block from my apartment [↩]
- $800, if you are curious [↩]