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Entries associated with the tag "YouShoot":

April 25th - 5:26 p.m.

Part of a great transit series by keith-e.

April 24th - 7:15 p.m.

Yes, that's two pictures in a row from John Talley. He's good.

April 8th - 7:16 p.m.

Happy spring, gentle reader. Photo by Joseph Palmer.

April 3rd - 8:28 p.m.

You should really check out more of dainelei 's photos (1, 2, 3, 4).

March 21st - 6:14 p.m.

Paige Morgan


At the end of What Jesus Meant, Garry Wills comes to Good Friday. He writes, “Dark and mysterious as is the whole matter of the Incarnation and the Passion, perhaps a single thing can help us think of them.” And then Wills relates a simple personal anecdote. His young son woke up one night crying. He had had a bad dream, a nightmare. When Wills asked what was troubling him, the little boy said that a nun in his school had told the children that they would end up in hell if they sinned. “Am I going to hell?” the little boy asked his father. Wills writes, “There is not an ounce of heroism in my nature, but I instantly announced what any father, any parent would: ‘All I can say is that if you’re going there, I’m going with you.’”

--John M. Buchanan, Fourth Presbyterian Church (126 E. Chestnut), "If You're Going, I'm Going With You"

See also: "Good People" by David Foster Wallace. 

March 7th - 2:50 p.m.
Two of my favorite local photographers, Lauri Apple (vid; proprietor of FoundClothing and Stick Figures, True Stories) and David Schalliol (vid), are part of a show Saturday at Cafe Latakia. Schalliol's Isolated Buildings Studies is an amazing series. Here's a good writeup of it.
March 5th - 8:15 p.m.

By Katherine of Chicago, proprietor of City of Destiny. Her preservation-oriented collection 1001 Buildings to See Before They Die is a briliant idea; her Flickr pool generally is just an amazing chronicle, particularly of demolished buildings and places I'm curious about but don't have the guts to explore, eg. I guess I have guides and chronicles on my mind today.

February 26th - 6:03 p.m.

Pavel Trebukov; I like his post on yoga and airport laptop use. Also, check out Gapers Block's Rearview today. David Schalliol is amazing.

February 19th - 5:18 p.m.

These two shots by David Schalliol seemed to go together.


February 14th - 6:28 p.m.

Regular Flickr contributor Chris Diers has an elegy for the store pictured below, Aiko's Art Materials at 3347 N. Clark, which is closing in April. It was started in 1955 by Aiko Nagane, a Seattle native and Art Institute grad; she passed away in 2004, and a scholarship at Columbia College was started in her name.

February 7th - 6:31 p.m.
February 7th - 1:46 p.m.

Cody Pomeroy has a great set of photos from a 2003 pro-war rally and a 2004 anti-war rally. The best of them kind of ruined my day, because I think it explains a lot.

January 29th - 10:33 p.m.
January 28th - 12:32 p.m.

Robert Loerzel

Update: A commenter writes "Chicago streetcar ticket? You sure? That looks a lot like a regular, but old, paper bus transfer they used to hand out." Loerzel suggests the ticket comes from circa 1935, based on the book he found it in. Assuming that's true, I'm guessing the Chicago Surface Lines notation means that it's for one of the trolley buses on display here.

January 24th - 5:13 p.m.

Eric Holubow. His personal site has more great pics and a clever URL.

January 23rd - 4:08 p.m.

By Strass; there's a story behind it that broke my heart, no less because I was listening to the jaw-dropping Sanctus from Mozart's Great Mass, which opens Thursday at the CSO, when I came across it. On a lighter note, I enjoyed this workplace photo and its tags. Going to go do some boring technical stuff now to clear my head.

January 21st - 4:46 p.m.
January 15th - 7:05 p.m.

Wow. Photo by Lisa Zielke. See the full-size pic for the full effect.

January 15th - 5:02 p.m.

A great photo by only-connect, but it's the title ("Nissan Dorma") that kills me.

"None shall sleep! None shall sleep! Even you, o Princess, in your cold room, watch the stars that tremble with love and with hope. . . ."

January 15th - 2:58 p.m.

Photos by Evan M. Butterfield, "part of a work-related project to create abstract black-and-white images."







January 11th - 5:15 p.m.

Have a nice weekend. 

Lucy Jodlowska

January 8th - 1:59 p.m.
January 7th - 3:16 p.m.

Nice "found fisheye" shot that captures the Hot Doug's experience.

Erica Barraca

January 3rd - 10:18 p.m.
January 3rd - 2:55 p.m.

Photo by Camera Obscure. Her footcentric pictures are both wry and moving. Having spent a couple Christmas Eves in the hospital, I found these two pictures heartbreaking.

January 2nd - 10:49 p.m.

Pauldub

Also, check out his shots of the new Montrose Brown Line station, with environmental graphics by Jason Pickleman.

November 12th - 5:37 p.m.

Update: Didn't realize this is a work by Erika Rothenberg at the MCA.

Lauri Apple

November 6th - 8:10 p.m.

Lovely diptych of a band called Voodoo and Valentine by Erica Barraca. I also like this black-and-white, sort-of-diptych of her grandfather.

 

October 25th - 6:59 p.m.

Patrick O'Neil.

He writes: "One dumpster lid closes, another wood frame is upholstered. The birth of a comfortable piece of furniture is a wondrous thing. 'Tis the cycle of interior design."

October 25th - 1:43 a.m.

Photo by katherine of chicago. Near Roosevelt and Austin; I lived near Roosevelt and Oak Park for a couple years, so I can vouch for this photo's authenticity.  
October 19th - 7:57 p.m.
On Monday I featured a pic by Carey Primeau of Jacob Riis Elementary. Here's another by katherine of chicago; more pics of Jacob Riis here. Why is it being torn down? Because. The blog Ecology of Absence has a good post on the school's destruction.