Spreading confusion over the internet since 1994
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I took Spoke Together All In A Rush on March 29, 2013 at 06:12AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on October 06, 2016 at 10:13AM
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I took Overlooked In Haste on July 23, 2016 at 06:18AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on September 16, 2016 at 10:00AM
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I took Things Go Back and Forth on May 21, 2013 at 11:58AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on August 24, 2016 at 11:38AM
I had one for many years, but it got sat on and squished one drunken night (might even have been me, but probably not). I never got around to replacing it until today.
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I took M. Hohner Special 20 – Key of C on August 19, 2016 at 07:03AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on August 19, 2016 at 01:28PM
Broadway, Chicago
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I took Free Soap on December 31, 1996 at 06:00PM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on August 16, 2016 at 09:02PM
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I took Colleen and George, Castle Rock Trail on July 01, 2016 at 04:07AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on July 05, 2016 at 08:06PM
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I took Evening Full of Cold Facts and Warm Grins on April 17, 2013 at 03:04PM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on May 14, 2016 at 03:54PM
In November 2008, LLILAS celebrated the arrival of a special work of art on campus. The Universidad Veracruzana, one of Mexico’s most prominent universities, presented the institute with a colossal Olmec head, a replica of the iconic sculpture known as San Lorenzo Monument 1, or El Rey.
The original, now housed in the Museo de Antropología in Xalapa, Veracruz, is considered a signature piece of pre-Columbian Olmec culture and a world-class art object that represents New World civilization as emblematically as the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacán or the ruins of Machu Picchu. One of seventeen colossal heads still in existence, San Lorenzo Monument 1 was found by noted archaeologist Matthew Stirling in the 1940s. His discoveries, and those of other archaeologists in Mexico during this time, unearthed for the world the culture of the Olmec, an ancient civilization that flourished in southern Mexico 1500-400 BCE and significantly influenced later cultures such as the Maya and Aztec.
The replica that now sits at the entry to LLILAS and the Benson Latin American Collection is made of solid stone and weighs 36,000 pounds. It was sculpted by Ignacio Pérez Solano, a Xalapa-based artist, who has spent his career exploring the history of the Gulf Coast and Mesoamerica. Pérez Solano meticulously reproduced San Lorenzo Monument 1 inch by inch, recreating the powerful lines and imposing features of the original work.
Pérez Solano began creating replicas of Olmec heads under the initiative of Miguel Alemán Velasco, who as governor of Veracruz from 1998 to 2004 endeavored to make Olmec culture better known beyond the borders of Mexico. Reproductions of other colossal heads can be found at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and the Field Museum in Chicago, among other locations. Miguel Alemán Velasco was present for the dedication ceremony at LLILAS on November 19, 2008, which also featured remarks by UT President William Powers and his counterpart, Raul Arias Lovillo of the Universidad Veracruzana. Fidel Herrera Beltrán, current Governor of Veracruz, also spoke, as did Olmec scholars from the U.S. and Mexico.
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I took El Ray – Giant Olmec Head on July 20, 2014 at 08:41AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on April 10, 2016 at 10:25PM
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I took Others Will Go On on April 25, 2014 at 12:48PM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on April 09, 2016 at 10:40AM
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I took Will You Leave For A Thousand Years? on April 23, 2014 at 09:45AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on April 09, 2016 at 10:05AM
Founded in Chicago in 1878 by a group of investors including John R. True, this company became a major producer of terra cotta trimmings used by the construction industry. By the early 1890s, when Northwestern Terra Cotta employed approximately 500 men, annual sales approached $600,000. By 1910, its large plant at Clybourn and Wrightwood Avenues had about 1,000 workers. The popularity of placing terra cotta moldings on building facades peaked in the 1920s, and Northwestern Terra Cotta led the way, in Chicago and around the country. Around this time, the company opened plants in St. Louis and Denver. Beginning with Louis Sullivan earlier in the century, prominent Chicago architects like Frank Lloyd Wright had extensive contracts with the company. Included among the many landmark Chicago buildings for which Northwestern supplied extensive decorative moldings were the Civic Opera House, the Chicago Theater, the Wrigley Building, and the Randolph Tower. Northwestern’s operations in Chicago declined alongside the construction industry during Great Depression and never returned to their 1920s levels. In 1965, Northwestern Terra Cotta Co.’s only remaining plant, in Denver, closed.
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I took As Though Nothing Was Wrong on April 19, 2014 at 07:38AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on April 03, 2016 at 11:04PM
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I took Thought It Wouldn’t Matter on February 20, 2016 at 09:55AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on February 24, 2016 at 06:27AM
(The sculpture is called Progress Lighting the Way for Commerce)
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I took You Wanted To Disappear on September 12, 2009 at 05:14AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on February 19, 2016 at 09:27AM
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I took Snowy Evening Under the El Tracks on February 01, 2011 at 06:06PM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on February 03, 2016 at 10:30AM
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I took You Cannot Truly Escape on August 11, 2011 at 04:44AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on February 02, 2016 at 01:28PM