I guess at some point this is going to get old.

I guess at some point this is going to get old.
Originally uploaded by suttonhoo

Just. Not. Yet.

Sunday morning, hiking Chautauqua.
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cairn

cairn
Originally uploaded by suttonhoo

Posting by cameraphone from just under the Flatirons, Boulder, CO

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the view from here

the view from here
Originally uploaded by suttonhoo

Moved in over the weekend. Start the job today. Only part that blows was putting mr. hoo on a plane for Chicago so that he can get the house sold.

Patience.

And good morning.

Posting by cameraphone from Boulder, Colorado.
My new home.

did you know...

did you know...
Originally uploaded by suttonhoo

... that Powell's name is spelled "Wesley" not "Westley", dear U-Haul?

Loading the moving van. Heading West soon, into Wesley's territory.

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steelroots

steelroots
Originally uploaded by suttonhoo

Took a break from packing and uprooting all that is with a brief walk through the Morton Arboretum this afternoon.

Came across Steve Tobin's Steelroots installation -- the best thing the Morton has installed in an awfully long while. Actual and abstracted root structures executed in steel anchor into the landscape.

Soothing somehow, and strong. Deep roots surfaced; reminders of why they matter anyway.

Recommend it. Both the rooting and the walk.

Now: Back to packing.


Originally posted by cameraphone, then updated.

singular distinction

Those Who Understand - Explored
Originally uploaded by inneri

According to Unicef, only two countries have not ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which prohibits the use of soldiers younger than 15: the United States and Somalia.

From Children Carry Guns for a U.S. Ally, Somalia in today's New York Times

hoops

holga.

colorama

The Eastman Kodak Company has donated its archive of Colorama images — the huge panoramic photographs that were displayed as advertisements in the Main Concourse of Grand Central Terminal for four decades beginning in 1950 — to the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, the museum announced on Friday. Coloramas, towering backlighted transparencies that were 18 feet high and 60 feet wide, were promoted by Kodak as “the world’s largest photographs.” More than 500 were publicly displayed, for runs of three weeks each.

They often contained idealized depictions of American daily life, usually showing a Kodak camera being used to photograph a family, activity or beautiful scene. The archive gift includes display images of all Coloramas, including those that were never displayed, along with research documents, negatives and other prints and files. An exhibition of 36 Coloramas, focusing on the 1960s, will be on view at the Eastman House from Saturday through Oct. 17.

From Kodak Gives ‘World’s Largest Photographs’ to Museum in today's New York Times

Viewing the Kodak Coloramas one might conclude that America is white, heterosexual, well-dressed, and travels a pristine world where there is no squalor or company other than our own white, heterosexual, well-dressed selves.

Rather than the diverse colorama that we really are.

Still: Stunning.

lone rider, ii

lone rider, ii
Originally uploaded by suttonhoo

Burlington Northern Santa Fe
Just outside Chicago

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get lit

get lit
Originally uploaded by suttonhoo

Posting by cameraphone from the Printer's Row Lit Fest née Book Fair.

Charlie Pierce up next »

ad majorem dei gloriam

Took a brief walk across the Seattle University campus when I was in town last month, waiting for baby Haven to be fully baked at Swedish Hospital across the street (Haven's here now: she’s a beautiful beautiful beautiful baby girl, and her mother, who is also a beautiful girl, is doing well).

I wanted to see the St. Ignatius Chapel, a spare modern building celebrated for its glorious contemplative interior.

Unfortunately it was locked. Which is, I suppose, the problem with having a celebrated chapel: everybody wants in, and you’re forced to keep them out, which entirely undermines the purpose of a building like that.






So I took some shots of the exterior, unhappy that I neglected to bring my wide lens, peered through the window a bit and then pulled up some shots on Flickr sometime later to see what I missed.

Much, it seems.

ruby shoes, take two

Tomorrow I hang up my wings and leave the road I've been traveling for the last four years, if you count the time I've been working this gig; or ten years, if you count the time I've spent in this place.

Within a week I'll be schlepping a U-Haul to Boulder, Colorado to start something entirely new in a place that's utterly familiar, and yet wholly changed.

Or maybe that's me.

Either way: I'm going home.



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Come on-a my house.

turn on, tune in, drop out

Goddess of TXT, OMG, It's Art
Originally uploaded by JR from Brooklyn

When I told them, my 12-year-old, Maxwell, was like, ‘Yes!’

Meredith Sinclair, blogger and mother of Maxwell, recounting her kid's reaction when she told him she was imposing a household Internet ban from 4 to 8 PM daily. As recounted in The Risks of Parenting While Plugged In in today's new York Times.

lone rider

lone rider
Originally uploaded by suttonhoo

Red Line, State Street Station
Chicago, IL

Early yet & a Saturday.
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somewhere between where I was and halfway home

somewhere between where I was and halfway home
Originally uploaded by suttonhoo

Stopped for Ritter's Frozen Custard.
Glad I did. Highway 30, Indiana.
That's all I know.

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