Archive for the ‘sculpture’ tag
Alien Hoopsters 6 on 6
Sculpture found somewhere near Northwestern Hospital (aka Chicago Memorial, if you’ve ever seen the movie, The Fugitive). Flipped around in Photoshop because they wanted to play full court.
Note: aliens use multiple balls/goals, so their game is faster moving than the NBA. Sort of like 3-D chess as played on Star Trek.
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decluttr
from my archives, circa 2005
Madonna of the Splinter – Vatican Museum, 1993
of course, no idea about the real artist/title. Sculpture carved of wood.
Scanned from a 4×6 print.
really need to retrieve my negatives from Austin – would love to scan from the originals
Darwin Fish Prototype
sure looks like the Darwin Fish (the answer to the Jesus fish often found on car bumper-stickers)
Mosque of Suleiman the Magnificent 1557 Istanbul, Turkey.
from the Chicago Tribune building, of course.
Sculpture on Randolph Street
Forget the exact building, business is defunct I believe
not sure if this compass rose is there anymore
Three Sides to Every Story
detail, sculpture
Skokie, I think, but I could be mistaken.
Ring a Ding Ding
Lincoln Park. Probably (based on style) by Pat McDonald who also did this piece
and here is a closeup taken more recently
Reading Around on May 12th through May 14th
A few interesting links collected May 12th through May 14th:
- Ivory sculpture in Germany could be world's oldest – The Boston Globe – "BERLIN – A 35,000-year-old ivory carving of a woman found in a German cave was unveiled yesterday by archeologists who believe it is the oldest known sculpture of the human form.
The carving found in six fragments in Germany's Hohle Fels cave depicts a woman with a swollen belly, wide-set thighs, and large, protruding breasts."It's very sexually charged," said University of Tuebingen archeologist Nicholas Conard, whose team discovered the figure in September."
- High-end Bicycles | Dailyxy.com – (Photo courtesy of swanksalot on Flickr)
- Chicago Reader Blogs: Chicagoland – Local News – "This has historically been one of the advantages of the newspaper model – you can use profitable bottom-feeding to float much less popular beat reporting that's only of interest to a small audience. But as newspapers move to the Web, courting the social networking audience and zeroing in on the traffic generated by specific stories, I'm terrified that reporters on such beats will feel pressure to abandon them.
I am impressed that the Trib, which is upending its business model as quickly as any major media organization and has been pilloried for some elements of that, is doubling down on local watchdog info, going so far as to court the FOIA-filing crowd."
