Archive for September, 2008

fire!

September 26th, 2008

fire tree

I’m home in Vermont after a three-day jaunt to the midwest, and look what happened while I was gone! The woods are aflame.

I carted State By State on my trip with me, which Read the rest of this entry »

postmodern post in chicago

September 23rd, 2008

Photo 289

This is me on the stage of the auditorium at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where I will imminently be giving a lecture. Out front, they have a computer set up with my blog on it. So I thought I’d make the blog be about the event.

I would like to have posted a picture here of the blog on the computer outside the auditorium. But I couldn’t manage that because I don’t have my camera cable, and my computer, with its magic internal camera, is all hooked up for the presentation. But I was able to use the magic computer camera  to take this picture of me and the auditorium screen, which WAS projecting the camera image of me…but it got washed out at the moment the photo was captured.

Could you follow that?

Is anyone at the SAIC looking?

just in time for the depression!

September 18th, 2008

WPA art

Am I imagining it, or does there seem to be a lot of nostalgia lately for New Deal programs? A friend just sent me this beautiful postcard of a poster created for the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project. There was a show on tv the other night interviewing old guys who’d been part of the Civilian Conservation Corps.

And today State By State: A Panoramic Portrait of America is released. This is an anthology Read the rest of this entry »

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