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| The corn cob towers. |
This is the first time I've posted to the Chicago Neighborhoods Project in years. I stopped because I found trying to keep up with several types of social media was too time consuming. I am most active on Twitter at @ChiNeighbor. I have been tweeting videos of the city. I also feature snippets of Chicago Tribune newspaper articles from 1893 about the city and the World's Fair.
My longer term project is tentatively called "Tarot in the White City: Instructions, History and Advice from Chicago." I envision this as a book as centered around the amazing research about tarot that emerged in the early 1890s. Part of this knowledge has gone back into obscurity. For fun, I've designed a way to read tarot with a set of dominoes, a partial deck of playing cards, and a partial deck of modern tarot cards.
Visual Journal of the Fantastical City
As for photography, I've taken a new interest in shooting black and white (actually, silvertone) photos. I am exploring what is real and what is not. How the image of the city is constructed through our thoughts. Always there is an element of dreams to what we see. |
| The beer garden along the Riverwalk. |
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| The autumn season. Shadowy figures crossing Wabash. |
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| Corner clock on the Palmer House Hotel. |
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| The Vietnam Veterans Memorial along the Riverwalk. Wedding couple on far left stairs. |
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| The canopy of lights at the Palmer House Hotel. |
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| Doorways of the Chicago City Hall/Cook County building. |
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| The Riverwalk. |
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| The entrance to the Blue Line along the underground tunnels of the Pedway. |
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| Vending machines and snacks in the Pedway. |
