tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-994600616469428502024-03-14T04:45:06.875-05:00the art of constructionRRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01376970788328253048noreply@blogger.comBlogger508125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99460061646942850.post-7351527492138069892016-11-07T18:50:00.002-06:002016-11-07T18:50:26.150-06:00River Basins in the USA<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Daily Mail has a great feature about a series of maps of river systems in the USA. <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3860062/The-veins-America-Stunning-map-shows-river-basin-US.html" target="_blank">The feature is available here</a>. </div>
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For local reference I added locations for Standing Rock, North Dakota and St. Louis, Missouri - locations within the greater Mississippi River Basin.</div>
RRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01376970788328253048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99460061646942850.post-7175391704346841732016-04-17T19:34:00.001-05:002016-04-17T22:09:13.230-05:00In the David Foster Wallace Archive: Part 1/3<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I returned from Austin a few weeks ago and while there was
able to spend 5 hours examining various documents in the David Foster Wallace
(DFW) archive at the Harry Ransom Center (HRC) of the University of Texas. And
so, I was also able to examine hand written drafts, heavily notated typescripts
and other fragments from the birth of <b><i>Infinite Jest </i></b>(IJ). Wow. I hope this
short essay will transmit a sense of the humanity and process of Wallace as
writer and man. I paged through books
from his personal library w/ his marginalia inscribed; I chose books that I
have some familiarity with: <b><i>The Moviegoer</i></b> – Walker Percy, <b><i>Against
Interpretation</i></b> – Susan Sontag, and <b><i>The Fire Next Time</i></b> – James Baldwin.
Pretty cool stuff, which we can imagine indicate the portions of the texts he found
most salient – especially the hand written notes in the Percy, which he taught,
at Pomona, I believe.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Showing images from the things I reviewed would be ideal,
but doing so would require time and money to acquire copyroght permissions I do not have. I will, however, show a
few examples of similar items (in appearance, if not content) so the physical
gist can be understood. It should also go without saying that nothing I write
here could in any way be construed as the result of an authoritative study of
the archive. It is just a glimpse of my own introduction to a fragment of the
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There is a whole set of rules, which seem pretty much
appropriate for such a place, that must be followed to do archival research at
the HRC. I had to create an account with ‘logon’ username and password. I
emailed staff ahead of time to make sure there were no unknown obstacles to stall
or prevent access to the material. The archive staff was and is very helpful.
Upon arrival one must watch a short video on handling archival materials, photography
requirements (as a research and note taking aid one is allowed to use a cell
phone camera to photograph documents to refer to in the future - this privilege
also requires a solemn vow to not share the images), copyright rules and so on.
I was only allowed to bring into the archive reading room my phone or a
computer and pencil and paper provided by the HRC. Lockers are provided for
other belongings. Once issued a pass for the reading room, entry is gained, I
was shown how to call up material by computer and request boxes containing
catalogued folders of manuscript and typescript matter. I also requested a few
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table between the researcher work tables and the librarians. One is only allowed to
take one folder from an archive box at a time to the work table. Several books
can be brought to the work table simultaneously. And this I did with some reverence
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few breaks in a conference I was attending, a strategy had to be developed
would enable me to get to know DFW a little bit and to get a small sense of the
evolution of IJ. Photographing pages became key. I decided to concentrate on materials that
were, as best I could tell from the catalogue notes, from parts of the book that are arranged in
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I have 50 photographs, of mostly whole pages of hand written
manuscript and/or annotated typescript. Some are different iterations of the
same scene. Upon returning home I
identified the pages in the current print edition that correspond to the
material in the manuscript pages. Here
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<li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">There is a cover to writing sent to his agent,
Bonnie Nadell, titled ‘First Two Sections’ and then on the next line ‘Infinite Jest’
and this work does not start in Tucson in the Year of Glad.</span></li>
<li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">This cover clearly indicates </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">the document is “INTENDED ONLY FOR THE RETINAS
OF PEOPLE TO WHOM IT’S EXPLICITLY SENT”</span></li>
<li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">This is followed by a section titled ‘Preliminary
Throat Clearings’ in type, but with a handwritten ‘Cut?’ at the top. It
features the dedication (which still exists, though slightly modified), an
epigraph from Blake’s Marriage of Heaven and Hell which reads: ‘Sorrow brings
forth’ and definitions of addict and addiction from the Oxford English
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<li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">The scene that starts this part/beginning of the
typescript is found on P37, with Hal going his father, James Orin Incandenza
(JOI) who is disguised as a ‘professional conversationalist.’ </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">This gets pretty interesting as I also came
across, what I presume to be an earlier incarnation of the scene, in which the ‘Hal’
character is called ‘David’ and it is putatively dated, April 1, 1974. DFW was
13/14 that year.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Another typescript has the year of this episode
taking place in the Year of the Perdue Wonderchicken, which is the scratched
out and then the Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar is inked in and then, that is scratched
out and finally the Year of the Tuck’s Medicated Pad is written in and that is what
appears in the final text.</span></li>
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Vernacular’ that begins on P37 with ‘Wardine say…’ looks to have been earmarked
for the Year of the Whisper Quiet Maytag Dishwasher. However that was crossed
out in pen and the Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar was written in in blue
ballpoint ink – which is the year of subsidized time that now appears in the
text.</span><span style="font-family: "symbol"; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">What is still more interesting, imho, is another
version of the same scene titled ‘Las Meninas.’ It is essentially the same
thing, but on the bottom of its typed second page is an indication that it was
written while he was in grad school at the University of Arizona.</span></li>
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attache. From the material I observed he went from one quarter to one half ‘ethnic
Arab’ as the drafts proceeded.</span></li>
<li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">On the back of a typescript page are handwritten
sentences which appear in modified form in the middle of P35. It is a
description of the teleputer and the medical attache’s relationship with it.
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RRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01376970788328253048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99460061646942850.post-13778598090075705072016-03-07T19:45:00.000-06:002016-03-07T19:46:18.960-06:00From the Notebooks of Paul KleeLook here: <a href="http://www.kleegestaltungslehre.zpk.org/ee/ZPK/BF/2012/01/01/001/">http://www.kleegestaltungslehre.zpk.org/ee/ZPK/BF/2012/01/01/001/</a> for more. Below are a few samples I really like.
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RRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01376970788328253048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99460061646942850.post-87998972543079803732016-03-06T15:55:00.005-06:002016-11-03T19:27:06.592-05:00All the Art is on the Streets - Spring 2016As Principal Photographer of <a href="http://www.alltheartstl.com/">www.alltheartstl.com</a> I invite you to enjoy our Spring 2016 issue:
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Here is the Delacroix, which is based, in part, on his field sketches.<br />
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Here is a 'spotlight' from the Kemper: <a href="http://kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu/files/spotlight2.07.pdf">http://kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu/files/spotlight2.07.pdf</a> that talks about various influences on Bearden, including Matisse and others. Anyway, as I walked from Wash U.s Picasso to the Bearden I was struck by the woman in the background on the right. It really reminds me of how Picasso moved the black woman in Delacroix's composition to the 'rear' of the composition. Or, I'm seeing things.</div>
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<br />RRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01376970788328253048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99460061646942850.post-13758841043978993932016-01-27T22:28:00.001-06:002016-01-29T11:35:01.461-06:00Kota, Contemporary Art, and HistoryThere is a powerful and beautiful exhibit at The Pulitzer Arts Foundation. It is titled:<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Since Mike Brown was killed on August 9, 2014 I have read numerous books on racism, the school to prison pipeline, sundown towns and the great migration. I have read histories of race relations in St. Louis, numerous articles, newspaper stories and I've spent a fair amount of time on the street. Among the many things I've learned is that the history we present in schools, mainstream media, and in art institutions is not commensurate with all too many of the facts of the lived experience of many, if not most of my fellow Americans who happen to be black. Their story need not be told by me; plenty of black folks do a fine job of putting the information on the table for all of us to read. I've shared reading lists elsewhere. Left Bank Books has a good one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Still, my heightened interest in the inadequacy of our representations of history, vis-à-vis race, was piqued by the Kota exhibit at Pulitzer Arts. Seven weeks ago I posted an image on IG from the exhibit with the following comment: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I have an opinion about the matter, but I simply don't 'know' enough to voice it as more than an invitation to discussion. To that end I was grateful for the event Pulitzer Arts hosted called The Ethics of Study, The Pulitzer's curator and an art historian from SLAM presented/lead a discussion that did not bring up the issues <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">from</span> my IG post, but the issue was not ignored during our questions and discussions either. The Pulitzer's Director of Public Projects <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">shared that they added</span> more explanatory material to the exhibition hand outs while acknowledging that a different range or scope of thought about origins, etc. might have been of value from the onset. I respect and appreciate this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">However, </span>I remain bothered that a big chunk of reality is given short-shrift in the 21st Century. Howard Zinn's work and that of others is no longer hard to find. We know there is another side to the coin and, especially after the Ferguson Uprising, it seems to make no sense to ignore <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">all<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> that is known</span></span> if a person or an institution wants to maintain credibility. This article: </span><a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201507200657.html" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 24.2px;" target="_blank">Central Africa: Price of Kota Sold in Paris Is Interesting...</a>is worth a read for another perspective on the 'Kota market' and the problematic issues of provenance.</div>
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Browsing through Phaidon's monograph, <a href="http://www.phaidon.com/store/art/theaster-gates-9780714868806/" target="_blank">Theaster Gates</a> I came across this image from a glass slide he rescued from deaccession by the University of Chicago. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is referred to as a 'wooden idol.' The times, I suppose have changed. I posted this on Twitter and Gates (w/ whom I worked on a Rebuild Foundation project in St. Louis) re-tweeted it. It seemed to tie western views of African history from the past to the present. Only the names have changed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: inherit;">These are quotes from Zora Neal Hurstan's essay </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-weight: bold; text-align: -webkit-center;"><a href="http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma01/grand-jean/hurston/chapters/how.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">How It Feels to Be Colored Me</span></a><span style="font-size: 15.21px;">. </span></span><span style="font-size: 15.21px; text-align: -webkit-center;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The essay was published in 1928, perhaps near the time of the glass slide above was made. </span></span><span style="font-size: 15.21px; text-align: -webkit-center;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I first read about her in Rampersad's biography of Langston Hughes. She was a pivotal and inspirational figure of the Harlem Renaissance.</span></span></div>
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RRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01376970788328253048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99460061646942850.post-3343780455514267822015-12-15T20:29:00.002-06:002015-12-15T20:32:37.339-06:00A Little Documentary on Sunflower+ Project<br />
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<span class="splash-text">Next is </span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://moenvironment.org/17-food-and-farm/299-local-foodshed-interactive-map?utm_source=State+of+MCE%27s+Food+and+Farm+Program&utm_campaign=Year+End+Food+and+Farm+Email&utm_medium=email" target="_blank">The Interactive Local Foodshed Map</a> hosted by the Missouri Coalition for the Environment. Here is a screenshot of the map - browse around the website for yourself and connect w/ all food things local.</span><br />
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Per Panelist Roseann Weiss there are 16k artists in St. Louis! It is/was a complicated conversation about the state of things now with some good examples of directions to take in the future. A knowledgable panel and moderator provided an important insights into the state of things - one of the them being an art scene that is almost as segregated as the city.</div>
RRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01376970788328253048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99460061646942850.post-61041484785051278982015-12-02T20:11:00.001-06:002015-12-02T20:13:37.547-06:00Sunflower+ on St. Louis on the Air TomorrowFrom: <a href="http://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/thursday-seen-fields-sunflowers-old-north-and-delmar-organization-behind-them">http://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/thursday-seen-fields-sunflowers-old-north-and-delmar-organization-behind-them</a><br />
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If you took a drive this fall in Old North, along Delmar near Union, or in Dutchtown near Virginia and Liberty streets, you’ve probably seen vast fields of sunflowers waving at you as you pass by. Who is behind these projects to brighten up vacant lots across St. Louis?</div>
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On Thursday’s “St. Louis on the Air,” Richard Reilly, one of the founders of the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SunflowerProjectstl/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #168dd9; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Sunflower + Project</a>, will join host Don Marsh to discuss the project. The Sunflower + Project was started in 2013 by Reilly and Don Koster, an architect and senior lecturer at Washington University, after winning the <a href="http://landlab.wustl.edu/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #168dd9; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Sustainable Land Lab</a> competition in 2012 in the partnership between Washington University and the city of St. Louis.</div>
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While the flowers themselves have withered, the project will live on in Old North during the dreary winter season with the raising of “Sustainability Flags.” They will go up on Saturday, Dec. 12. We’ll learn about this and more on Thursday.</div>
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Reilly is also the <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/rrconstructor" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #168dd9; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Energy Programs Manager for the Earth Ways Center at the Missouri Botanical Garden</a>. What questions do you have for him about sunflowers, gardening or vacant lots in St. Louis? We’ll ask. Email <a href="mailto:talk@stlpublicradio.org" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #168dd9; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">talk@stlpublicradio.org</a> or tweet us at <a href="http://www.twitter.com/STLonAir" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #168dd9; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">@STLonAir</a>.</div>
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RRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01376970788328253048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99460061646942850.post-28590853564915568212015-12-01T15:38:00.000-06:002015-12-01T15:39:36.874-06:00All the Art - Winter is Here...The Winter 2015 issue of All the Art is on the streets now. It is available, for free, at local libraries, galleries and neighborhood hubs. It cal also be read on line: <a href="http://www.alltheartstl.org/">www.alltheartstl.org</a> Grab one and keep up to date on the local art scene. FWIW I serves as Principle Photographer.<br />
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Founders Sarah Hermes-Griesbach and Amy Reidel do a great job pulling everything together while encouraging a wide range of contributors/writers to document ALL THE ART going on.<br />
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RRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01376970788328253048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99460061646942850.post-34809108187797093722015-11-30T19:37:00.004-06:002015-11-30T19:37:57.985-06:00Catching Up On Reading<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Since August of 2014 I've done a lot of reading, spent a fair amount of time on the streets of St. Louis and re-committed efforts related for social sustainability and against racism. The history is chilling. The faces of the lives carrying the burden of this impact are unforgettable.<br />
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Here is a basic reading list - but this should also include Gordon's <b><i>Mapping Decline</i></b> and Alexander's <b><i>The New Jim Crow</i></b> as well.<br />
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In a blog about art, architecture and sustainability a commitment to fight racism might seem, to the casual observer, to be a bit strange.<br />
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Studying the "New Urbanism" one finds all the factors for sustainability present 100 years ago in North St. Louis: Mixed income, walkable, live/work, parks, public transit and more. What happened? Middle class white folks didn't want to live with middle class black folks. This set in motion law, policy and practice created and implemented by the white power elite that discriminated against people of color and created the "Delmar Divide."<br />
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Read, learn, and work - for all,RRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01376970788328253048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99460061646942850.post-8782799336340885192015-11-28T11:29:00.001-06:002015-11-28T11:29:23.608-06:00I'm BackIt's been a while. Many changes, new foci and new projects. More in the fullness of time.RRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01376970788328253048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99460061646942850.post-3251359202981605242013-07-04T18:35:00.001-05:002015-11-29T12:04:36.685-06:00Sunflower+ On Our Nation's Birthday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />RRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01376970788328253048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99460061646942850.post-24047485393822283462013-06-26T22:20:00.000-05:002015-11-30T19:17:48.464-06:00The Golden Ratio in Art, Architecture and NatureI have read books on the subject and traveled the world to see examples of the ratio expressed in great art and architecture. It is always fascinating to see - and it is far more common than one might realize. Here are a few images, links, and a video about the subject. Enjoy.<br />
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<a href="http://jwilson.coe.uga.edu/EMT668/EMAT6680.2000/Obara/Emat6690/Golden%20Ratio/golden.html" target="_blank">The Golden Ratio in Art and Architecture</a> is a web site by Samuel Obara is a great overview of the math with examples and visuals that provide quality demonstrations.<br />
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Check out these images that express the ratio:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #3c4349; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.90625px;">The U.S. Department of Energy's Building America program strives to develop integrated energy systems that dramatically reduce annual energy use and peak energy loads in existing and new homes while also improving overall building quality, comfort, safety, and durability.</span><br />
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We're also working on signage for the site, developing our web site, and developing a program to share with interested tour groups.RRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01376970788328253048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99460061646942850.post-59096370188074676032013-06-15T12:19:00.000-05:002013-06-15T12:19:23.771-05:00Trim Castle, County MeathThe oldest Norman castle still standing in Ireland. 800 year old masonry work is pretty remarkable. We took a tour that made its way to the roof of the castle keep, the chapel, food stores and more. Some might recognize the place as one of the sets used in 'Braveheart.' Photos by me unless captioned otherwise.<br />
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<br />RRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01376970788328253048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99460061646942850.post-25027683112962662022013-06-11T16:03:00.000-05:002013-06-11T16:03:10.258-05:00The Long Room, Trinity College, DublinIt is no secret that I love buildings and books. One of the great combinations of the two is the Long Room in the old library of Trinity College, Dublin. I just returned from the place and here are a few images from my visit.<br />
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<br />RRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01376970788328253048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99460061646942850.post-57332166355778894402013-05-19T20:00:00.000-05:002013-05-19T20:00:03.764-05:00Sunflower+/Land Lab GroundbreakingBusy times since I last posted. Here are some pix from the last week or so:<br />
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<br />RRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01376970788328253048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99460061646942850.post-70057684108111262662013-05-05T10:40:00.000-05:002015-11-30T19:14:08.798-06:00Sunflower+ Project: StL UpdateThe weather has been problematic but our team has found ways to make progress on the farm as well as on site. The seedlings (as shown in <a href="http://riles-files.blogspot.com/2013/04/starting-seedlings.html" target="_blank">previous post</a>) are in progress and now we have some things going on at the site as well.<br />
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Last week saw the delivery of the first load of reclaimed foundation stone which will be used for our retaining wall/seating area.<br />
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Yesterday we started the layout and shot the grades for the excavator that will be coming on Tuesday morning.<br />
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We'll also be working on setting up time-lapse photography for the site, setting up a project specific website and continuing to communicate through facebook and twitter as well. Please fin the project on twitter: @SunflowerStL on on facebook at: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/SunflowerProjectstl">http://www.facebook.com/SunflowerProjectstl</a>RRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01376970788328253048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99460061646942850.post-43900615851948816382013-05-04T21:28:00.000-05:002013-05-04T21:28:08.112-05:00Rebuild RevisitedAlmost 2 years ago I organized the installation (pix below) next to the Rebuild Foundation's building on Mallinckrodt. The project was based on the shadows the building cast on the adjacent lot as shown in this image:<br />
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I laid out the lines (see above) of the shadow with students working on the site as a way to commemorate their time on the site. The lot is, I believe, owned by the city and occasionally mowed with some kind of tractor. The bricks which rise/rose above the grade have not fared well. Here are some more images from 2 years ago and the present.<br />
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<br />RRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01376970788328253048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99460061646942850.post-86244428899713532372013-05-02T19:45:00.003-05:002013-05-02T19:45:50.043-05:00Color, Sales, ServiceMarketing, products, color and decision making. Check out this graphic <a href="http://blog.marketo.com/blog/2012/06/true-colors-what-your-brand-colors-say-about-your-business.html" target="_blank">from</a> :<br />
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I have all kinds of thoughts about who/what is served by such things and what it all might mean, but I will leave to the individuals stumbling across this to draw conclusions as he or she sees fit.RRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01376970788328253048noreply@blogger.com