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Geneviève Vix in costume as Circe, c. 1907.

Photographed by Lèopold Reutlinger.

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Favorite pictures from last year

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I keep making the same mistakes!

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need to stop stressing about other peoples' egos

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Isolated Buildings of Chicago

In the words of the artist David Schalliol:

The Isolated Building Studies are the visual confluence of my interests in urban dynamism, socioeconomic inequality and photography. By using uniform composition in photographs of Chicago buildings with no neighboring structures, I hope to draw attention to new ways of seeing the common impact of divergent investment processes on urban communities.

Isolated buildings are particularly useful for the exploration of neighborhood transformation and its social correlates because they are immediately recognized as unusual. As urban buildings, their form illustrates their connection with adjacent structures: vertical, boxy, an architecture confined by palpably limited parcels. When their neighboring buildings are missing, a tension emerges: the urban form clashes with the seemingly suburban, even rural setting. Thoughtfully engaging the landscape requires further investigation to resolve this tension: Why is this building isolated? It is from this fundamental friction that the Isolated Building Studies launches.

Images and text via

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Romney Marsh Moon, Winter Solstice, and Nortons Shed by Paul Evans

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Bob Kuhn

“Painting the Wild”

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Reading the wikipedia articles for various ballistic missile warning radars due to current events and it’s striking how convergent evolution caused both American and Russian radars to take the form of incredibly foreboding concrete monoliths.

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Artist: oejerum

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European common frog (Hemidactylium scutatum) By: Erich Sochurek From: Living Amphibians of the World 1966

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St. Thérèse of Lisieux as Joan of Arc, 1895

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