Snowpocalypse Now
The Groundhog’s Day Blizzard of 2011, in Chicago. Mostly in Rogers Park.
Media
Like the new theme?
As you can see, I’ve implemented a new WordPress theme on ye olde weblog. It’s a custom-built layout, with a fair amount of typography from the open-source “Alibi” theme, supplemented with some fancy font faces from Google’s font api. I think it looks cleaner and more modern. What’s your opinion?
Language – Kinetic typography
A fine, fine piece of work.
Powers of Ten
This video is great. I particularly love it that it zeros out in Chicago, just south of the Loop, by Lake Michigan. Full-screen this baby, and sit back and enjoy.
Ways to ensure I will ignore your media.
Here’s a short list of key words that will guarantee I will ignore your TV show, movie, etc. From the producers of ‘Scary Movie’ Tyler Perry’s _________________ From the writers of ‘Two and a half men’ “It will warm your heart” “Just how far would you go to find true love?” “This generation’s (something interesting … Read more
The scene at the Greek festival
Taken tonight at about 8:30, at the corner of Halsted and Jackson, in Greektown. Not the friendliest street festival I’ve ever seen, but summer is wrapping up.
The map room
Here we see maps hung in the preview room before our rare books and manuscripts auction. Nice display, eh?
Purpose, not just profit
This comes my way via Anna Tarkov. First of all, the content is excellent; a look at what motivates each of us to do our best work, and surprisingly, why money is usually not the best motivator. But also, the whiteboard cartooning animation is just awesome. Mad props to the person that put this together.
Creative destruction
I recently acquired two small oil paintings in an auction. I paid very little for them. They’re nice enough paintings, and certainly a deal for how little they cost, but they’re not exactly in the style of my home decor. So naturally, I got to thinking, maybe a fun thing to do would be to … Read more
Tony Allen at Millennium Park
Perhaps not the most exciting video ever, here’s a quick, 45-second look at the environment at Millennium Park yesterday evening, during a free show by legendary Afrobeat drummer Tony Allen and his band. Once again, shot with Motorola Droid phonecam. This one is hosted on Youtube, because I wanted to get an idea of quality … Read more