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Rutabaga o’Lantern

Saturday, October 29, 2011

In honor of my Gaelic roots, I carved a rutabaga this year. It takes some doing (scooping out the guts isn’t as efficient as it is with a pumpkin), but the end results are creepily worth it. STAY AWAY, EVIL SPIRITS!

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Street Art… or Crazy Herniated Homeless Guy’s Shopping Cart?

Thursday, October 27, 2011

You make the call…

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George Grant Elmslie

Saturday, May 14, 2011

More here.

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Shepard Fairey Installation on the Grand Avenue Underpass

Thursday, May 12, 2011
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I Hate Taggers

Thursday, May 12, 2011

Within a week of a trellis being set up in front of the Chicago Motor Club Building (more info here), a tagger took advantage of the cover and scrawled who-knows-what-the-hell on the facade. While not an “important” building, it’s a nifty little Art Deco gem, tucked away in an infrequently visited corner of Michigan Avenue. […]

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Ghost Signs!

Friday, March 18, 2011

Ghost signs found on Dempster and Bronx Ave. in Skokie. I’m sure many, many photographers have snapped shots of these already, but I finally got around to doing it yesterday. Love the old alphabet phone numbers! And most of you young ankle-biters probably have no idea what Green Stamps were.

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Photo Every Few Days 2011, #50

Monday, February 28, 2011

The party’s over…

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Photo a Day 2011, #37

Wednesday, February 9, 2011
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“Good”

Monday, January 17, 2011

Sturgeon’s Law states that 90 percent of everything is crap. Kelly’s Corollary adds that 99 percent of that remaining 10 percent is simply good. In art, good is largely preferable to bad, save in the case of something being “so bad it’s good”… but that’s another matter. Good is enjoyable, intelligent, savory, and consistently acceptable, […]

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Latest Shadow Box

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Every item Nate noticed, picked up, and handed to me over the past three years during our walks.

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