tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-236318032024-03-26T23:49:40.275-05:00detritus.all over the map (but mostly chicago.il.us)suttonhoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292408097588177380noreply@blogger.comBlogger3166125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23631803.post-79622636514071336402013-08-24T07:33:00.001-05:002013-08-24T07:40:19.061-05:00Here’s my Steve Ballmer Story.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtODwHTPrZB63oAk-i3E85Jg9Vf3ISwyFugexyGnR4qmq4peD3MSZNHrHFQSoKvhSKSib7IE-kJfm7w769DO5tkKIvccpwLV0neVW0r2NkJQkfXz8kJq2CCCZ06K6AVX7Fgwfd/s320/louisvilleslugger.jpeg" /></div>
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It’s a small story but of interest, I think, because of what came after.
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In 1995 I worked as a freelance writer and print designer and I had just made up my mind to put more of my time and attention into designing and building websites, something I had started doing the year before. Pitching web work back then meant selling clients on why they needed a web site at all – sometimes even selling them on what the World Wide Web was and why it mattered to their business -- and most still preferred the familiar comfort of a (paper-bound) marketing brochure. I was nervous about my decision then, but can happily report in hindsight that I bet on the right horse.
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In August of that year I took a two-week contract to do some technical writing for the Excel product group, and spent my two weeks on Microsoft’s Redmond campus in, as it turned out, the same hallway occupied by Steve Ballmer.
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I was warned that Ballmer had a scaled down Louisville Slugger baseball bat that he liked to carry and thwack into his hand, repeatedly, when he had a point to make. I was told it was unlikely that I would encounter him while I was there.
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And then I did.
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Or rather: I heard him. One afternoon, shortly after the launch party for Office 95 (remember those halcyon days? <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_95">That was 18 years ago today.</a>) I heard a strange muttering in the hallway. And a loud thwack. And then another thwack. A steady thwacking cadence emerged accompanied by a persistent, angry mantra. My office door was open just a crack so I could see his burly mass as it passed by my door, paced the hallway to its end and then back again, repeatedly.
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I don’t imagine he paced for long, but the fear it struck in my heart made it feel like an eternity. The mantra he was repeating?
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<i>Screw the Internet.</i>
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And that’s my story. It’s a small story but of interest, I think, because of what came after that.suttonhoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292408097588177380noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23631803.post-69086717261572648232013-02-23T14:55:00.001-06:002013-02-23T14:55:32.086-06:00@ the AIC<div style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/suttonhoo22/8501708932/" title="@ the AIC"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8379/8501708932_f21fce6261.jpg" alt="@ the AIC by suttonhoo" /></a><br/><span style="margin: 0;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/suttonhoo22/8501708932/">@ the AIC</a>, a photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/suttonhoo22/">suttonhoo</a> on Flickr.</span></div><p></p>suttonhoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292408097588177380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23631803.post-74743412371237595352012-12-12T06:53:00.000-06:002012-12-12T06:53:26.063-06:00consuming spirits<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/16781367?badge=0" width="450" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe> <p><a href="http://vimeo.com/16781367">CONSUMING SPIRITS (trailer) by Chris Sullivan</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/sullivananimation">chris sullivan animation</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
<blockquote>You have never seen anything like it.</blockquote>
<i><a href="http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/12/12/movies/consuming-spirits-an-animated-film-by-chris-sullivan.html?smid=pl-share">Film critic AO Scott in the New York Times on Chris Sullivan's animated feature Consuming Spirits</a>.</i>suttonhoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292408097588177380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23631803.post-39149003496197414312012-12-12T06:27:00.001-06:002012-12-12T06:27:41.046-06:00arch(itect)<div style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jovivebo/2131009720/" title="auditorium"><img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2017/2131009720_e72d657fec.jpg" alt="auditorium by jovivebo" /></a><br/><span style="margin: 0;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jovivebo/2131009720/">auditorium</a>, a photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jovivebo/">jovivebo</a> on Flickr.</span></div><p><blockquote>I am not attracted by the angles or the hard and inflexible straight lines created by man. What attracts me is the free and sensual curve, the curve which I find in the mountains of my country, in the flow of its rivers, in the waves of the ocean, in the body of a woman.</blockquote><br /><cite><a href="http://artsation.com/en/journal/editorial/oscar-niemeyer-ist-tot">The architect Oscar Niemeyer to the Spanish newspaper ABC</A>. Niemeyer died last week a few days shy of his 105th birthday.</cite></p>suttonhoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292408097588177380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23631803.post-15293968317158746962012-11-20T22:23:00.001-06:002012-11-21T06:48:48.157-06:00batem-bia<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Des Moines, Iowa<br />
State Capitol Buildingsuttonhoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292408097588177380noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23631803.post-209219755315509112012-11-18T17:38:00.000-06:002012-11-18T17:38:14.325-06:00a passionate and gentle voice<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Whatever contact I have with hope</div>
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Is clear to me on certain mornings</div>
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When a voice slips</div>
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Into my mind like a shy</div>
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Suggestion of love</div>
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That nothing will deny.</div>
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It is a passionate and gentle voice</div>
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Authentic as a patch of sunlight </div>
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On a floor inside a window</div>
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And it has always spoken the same words:</div>
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'I live in the stripped branch,</div>
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Dying flowers on the kitchen table,</div>
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Pools of water after a storm</div>
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Uncomprehending as children</div>
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Strayed from their parents in a crowded town.</div>
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You understand I do not exhort.</div>
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My state is one of waiting</div>
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For you, for the most part,</div>
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And I am helpless till you observe me</div>
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With your electric blood</div>
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And your eyes</div>
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Redeemed from the tedium by the desire</div>
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To know</div>
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Why something begins to stir</div>
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In utter stillness like a memory</div>
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That will not let you sleep at night</div>
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But takes possession of you</div>
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And absorbs you into itself.</div>
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So I await that morning</div>
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When you emerge</div>
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From the tired night as from a mist</div>
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Into a decision of sunlight</div>
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Where I exist.'</div>
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~ Brendan Kennelly</div>
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suttonhoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292408097588177380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23631803.post-49334641825527742412012-04-10T19:27:00.001-05:002012-04-10T19:27:10.727-05:00all the books I have convinced myself I will read during the course of my brief trip to LondonIt's not true, of course. If I'm lucky I'll complete one. But the sad truth is: in the age before e-books I would have actually packed them all.
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<blockquote>What several designers noted, though, were the crazy-quilt lines of what the publicity materials refer to as the “grand manor roof.” “With most houses, they could be colonial or modern, the roof line is so clear that you can see that underneath there is some kind of rational flow and layout,” said Mr. Hayes, author of “The Tailored Interior.” “With this, they’re unresolved and a bit messed up. You know that what’s underneath is not a lot of clarity.”</blockquote>
<i>Hayes was speaking of Michelle Bachmann's Minnesota home in <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/29/garden/the-houses-of-the-gop-hopefuls.html">The Houses of the Hopefuls</a> in today's New York Times.</i>
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The article features a run down of the architecture and interior design of the homes of the Republican presidential hopefuls.suttonhoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292408097588177380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23631803.post-42624109813287098832011-12-16T15:29:00.001-06:002011-12-16T15:29:48.032-06:00soft, what light.<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1mp5fgZPDLo1gGYspGgXJ3rWfTMszzi4fJhqTt8-Z0r7OECuduwHXoITiTyJrGs-sW0Rdm6eONgZomZtnTV5KWSUgrP-a1-gCL_0iUr3iJZnYo87E45Ke_bWQsF-LVm_Q07CJ/s1600/1324068240663-788033.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1mp5fgZPDLo1gGYspGgXJ3rWfTMszzi4fJhqTt8-Z0r7OECuduwHXoITiTyJrGs-sW0Rdm6eONgZomZtnTV5KWSUgrP-a1-gCL_0iUr3iJZnYo87E45Ke_bWQsF-LVm_Q07CJ/s320/1324068240663-788033.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5686841595188557826" /></a></p><p>Morton Arboretum<br> Lisle, IL</p> suttonhoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292408097588177380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23631803.post-26251131165664658412011-12-12T11:42:00.001-06:002011-12-12T11:42:26.135-06:00fermi lab five ways<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSp849KXPuM3HZZB8rmH6cKcXqlUvzQ0G6sCukicqehWCzxsz5YgURkKrBFZBqnLJBpoY0Vvj-E2PXm-fmbdThO4Na1WICcVRlzOJL7o62__ivSPVkrP-M5vY_SOEB5fineAiW/s1600/1323613146808-746137.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSp849KXPuM3HZZB8rmH6cKcXqlUvzQ0G6sCukicqehWCzxsz5YgURkKrBFZBqnLJBpoY0Vvj-E2PXm-fmbdThO4Na1WICcVRlzOJL7o62__ivSPVkrP-M5vY_SOEB5fineAiW/s320/1323613146808-746137.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5685298661499743554" /></a></p><p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7pUTRnHzbJE74FA7dZ6Whs7qXBBoSqtCZOrBGAtIL8GShuffSbfEci8emgD0Qh54lk1R1YLnfh8tlOI3Dy-OzMSbHSmv6JeRApThZhHemiG5xwiV7HcggDz-A5DXaS7zByZLL/s1600/1323621550538-747664.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7pUTRnHzbJE74FA7dZ6Whs7qXBBoSqtCZOrBGAtIL8GShuffSbfEci8emgD0Qh54lk1R1YLnfh8tlOI3Dy-OzMSbHSmv6JeRApThZhHemiG5xwiV7HcggDz-A5DXaS7zByZLL/s320/1323621550538-747664.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5685298667333932626" /></a></p><p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXeJBN9nIOBEcCIj65MiU8A18Vx8nebE4vPD66ccL5Zi1YhjEv1fKlbfycEdTC5E5P5_1WksYWfFDS7gzU5gg5S47qVtPfB_4G0mv4KXEdMAyb4luqvmIGOyl4q70TR-OiK3v4/s1600/1323621630690-748674.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXeJBN9nIOBEcCIj65MiU8A18Vx8nebE4vPD66ccL5Zi1YhjEv1fKlbfycEdTC5E5P5_1WksYWfFDS7gzU5gg5S47qVtPfB_4G0mv4KXEdMAyb4luqvmIGOyl4q70TR-OiK3v4/s320/1323621630690-748674.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5685298668006738162" /></a></p><p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihKaqUyfuSE1YBDrXGsFBw2OQyFl_XjZJRHLCnZPStmo8vyIemNXPtFjvneZljJpwfxJXthVQJb_v2V9zDdB8_PEZcYoDTpdPL6SZj3hA0XUDK3HkDYrf4aLYOh-i0rI4M3mOl/s1600/1323620028463-751765.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihKaqUyfuSE1YBDrXGsFBw2OQyFl_XjZJRHLCnZPStmo8vyIemNXPtFjvneZljJpwfxJXthVQJb_v2V9zDdB8_PEZcYoDTpdPL6SZj3hA0XUDK3HkDYrf4aLYOh-i0rI4M3mOl/s320/1323620028463-751765.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5685298683345012018" /></a></p><p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ_AlNU15CjP5sfiGYHRqM9X1mvuDI7XywYWWzimlc6MIglWK4BufBYOKr60p0DDTYzJmKwnIi8FntcB8uK43afm4jEtdLEQZjkU9O4e2HIaZxVM_TwKDivipnKYx5HDf9DZfS/s1600/1323623330394-755124.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ_AlNU15CjP5sfiGYHRqM9X1mvuDI7XywYWWzimlc6MIglWK4BufBYOKr60p0DDTYzJmKwnIi8FntcB8uK43afm4jEtdLEQZjkU9O4e2HIaZxVM_TwKDivipnKYx5HDf9DZfS/s320/1323623330394-755124.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5685298700826648306" /></a></p><p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqpDO52TCmNlUQpkRgXTk_FC7lgFPpY3R_zktbhGpHwMyyyGD8sa7KQkeAP8WcUwtzh9Ol9w6lH5ahr1nyUphGvu3YiRoa38dDsPMsBRconTPN3e9iK6Gfim_hVz1KVD0oYEDn/s1600/1323630305305-755883.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqpDO52TCmNlUQpkRgXTk_FC7lgFPpY3R_zktbhGpHwMyyyGD8sa7KQkeAP8WcUwtzh9Ol9w6lH5ahr1nyUphGvu3YiRoa38dDsPMsBRconTPN3e9iK6Gfim_hVz1KVD0oYEDn/s320/1323630305305-755883.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5685298704146569090" /></a></p><p>via cameraphone, of course.</p> suttonhoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292408097588177380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23631803.post-6036993335543028982011-11-23T08:01:00.001-06:002011-11-23T08:15:05.906-06:00how not to die<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<blockquote>There is no difference between art and activism.</blockquote>
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<i>UCSD professor of visual arts Ricardo Dominguez cited in an EFE wire story and reported by <a href="http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2011/11/20/traffickers-migrants-use-cell-phones-along-us-mexico-border/">Fox News Latino »</a></i>
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UCSD professor of visual arts Ricardo Dominguez was speaking about a smartphone application that he created using GPS technology to assist individuals cross the border from Mexico to the US illegally by sharing information about the location of aid stations where water, clothing and blankets are stockpiled.
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Domingo spoke to cell phones as part of a "poetic system that can save lives."suttonhoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292408097588177380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23631803.post-65700892316933807012011-11-17T18:30:00.000-06:002011-11-17T18:30:20.498-06:00theory of relativity<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<blockquote>In America, the top 1% earn more than $380,000 per year. We are, however, among the richest nations on Earth. How much do you need to earn to be among the top 1% of the world?
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$34,000.
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That was the finding World Bank economist Branko Milanovic presented in his 2010 book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Haves-Have-Nots-Idiosyncratic-History-Inequality/dp/0465019749/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1321575868&sr=8-1">The Haves and the Have-Nots</a>. Going down the distribution ladder may be just as surprising. To be in the top half of the globe, you need to earn just $1,225 a year. For the top 20%, it's $5,000 per year. Enter the top 10% with $12,000 a year. To be included in the top 0.1% requires an annual income of $70,000.</blockquote>
<i>Morgan Housel in the <a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2011/10/28/attention-protestors-youre-probably-part-of-the-1-.aspx">Motley Fool</a></i>suttonhoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292408097588177380noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23631803.post-32867512106909775402011-11-15T07:53:00.000-06:002011-11-15T16:19:07.800-06:00desire lines<style>
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Desire lines generally refer to worn paths
where people naturally walk – the beaten path that trails off the sidewalk,
usually as a shortcut to a destination – but can be applied more broadly to any
signs or traces of user activity in an object or environment. The implicit
claim of desire lines is that they represent an unbiased indication of how an
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My grandfather introduced me to desire lines, but he didn’t
call them by name. I can’t be sure that he knew what they were called. We were
crossing the Quad at the University of Washington, <a href="http://suttonhoo.blogspot.com/2006/04/patriarchs-passage.html">cherry trees in bloom</a>, and
he pointed out the gentle ruts in the grass left by renegade feet in oblique
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“Those are the paths they should pave,” he said, pointing
out the bald earth. I think of him now whenever I see a transgressive groove
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Rem Koolhaas oriented his IIT Student Center around the
desire lines that students wore into the wasteland beneath the El tracks on
their passage to class, long before the building was sited. In the belly of his building there’s a placard that
maps the original paths so you can see at a macro level what you experience when
you walk through the structure: his building breathes with a unique kind of
respiration because it is so well-aligned with the passage of people through
that place. It doesn’t obstruct their passage from point A to B: It shelters
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I’m surprised that I’ve only just discovered this name for the
thing. It startled me when I stumbled across it yesterday, and left me to
wonder if maybe I knew it before but didn’t notice it; am noticing it now only because
of these first tentative steps off my trim path; this early attempt
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<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=109615" allowFullScreen="true" flashvars="offsite=true&lang=en-us&page_show_url=%2Fgroups%2Fdesire_paths%2Fpool%2Fshow%2F&page_show_back_url=%2Fgroups%2Fdesire_paths%2Fpool%2F&group_id=50746937@N00&jump_to=&start_index=" width="400" height="300"></embed></object></center>suttonhoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292408097588177380noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23631803.post-84532026482037790482011-10-31T18:31:00.002-05:002011-10-31T18:34:06.133-05:00on speaking to the dead<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/2743336034/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3156/2743336034_32e52b4b05_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/2743336034/">Skeleton Donut</a><br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/">Thomas Hawk</a></span></div><blockquote>The rabbi addresses the importance of talking to the dead. His premise is that we want to, need to, talk to the dead. It is an important, not a maudlin, thing to do. The rabbi suggests that we have four things to say to them: I'm sorry. Thank you. I forgive you. I love you. This is what makes us human, over time, over distance.</blockquote><br /><br /><i><a href="http://twitter.com/#!/sturkle">Sherry Turkle</a> in <a href="http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=sherry+turkle&sts=t&tn=alone+together&x=0&y=0">Alone Together: Why we expect more from technology and less from each other</a></i><br clear="all" />suttonhoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292408097588177380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23631803.post-29256987013767474522011-10-31T18:01:00.001-05:002011-10-31T18:01:40.604-05:00profuse or perish<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/shreddedrabbit/1780373693/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2073/1780373693_42f4450e28_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/shreddedrabbit/1780373693/">Tiny bubbles...</a><br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/shreddedrabbit/">peater</a></span></div><blockquote>You have to write as much as you can. People have studied these things.</blockquote><br /><br /><i>Principal Jay Richard of Oyster River Middle School, speaking on strategies for passing the essay portion of standardized tests in America's schools in today's <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/31/education/no-child-left-behind-catches-up-with-new-hampshire-school.html">New York Times</a>.</i><br clear="all" />suttonhoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292408097588177380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23631803.post-16728524686039283762011-10-29T07:04:00.000-05:002011-10-29T07:04:11.207-05:00the intensity of strawberries<blockquote>I remember</p>
the intensity of <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/suttonhoo22/4145313705/">strawberries</a><br />
in a very, very narrow<br />
band of time –</p>
June, July<br />
Wimbledon on TV</p>
things like that</blockquote>
<i>Simon Schama on strawberries and other edibles in the weekend edition of the <a href="http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/f4ad6dee-00f0-11e1-8590-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1cAfrLoHm">Financial Times</a></i>suttonhoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292408097588177380noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23631803.post-10425249460470785232011-10-15T16:28:00.001-05:002011-10-15T16:28:47.358-05:00art alone<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdE9E9lEwLIEDXmBAhYZXgiiBQxyT3drn0dgx15_A6wyqcYE6u4ssrkWifKF3K5tw_a3juy40PpElzaEOq9k3QXtDMQ3tHvwjQPW1KdlWT8zaVp3Elj0QYqQAvJXNrWqHoTD35/s1600/1318709785283-727359.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdE9E9lEwLIEDXmBAhYZXgiiBQxyT3drn0dgx15_A6wyqcYE6u4ssrkWifKF3K5tw_a3juy40PpElzaEOq9k3QXtDMQ3tHvwjQPW1KdlWT8zaVp3Elj0QYqQAvJXNrWqHoTD35/s320/1318709785283-727359.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5663834049992466802" /></a></p><p>All Passes -- Art Alone Endures<br> Fine Arts Building<br> Chicago, IL</p> suttonhoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292408097588177380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23631803.post-55650296428366809942011-09-27T14:05:00.001-05:002011-09-27T14:05:35.805-05:00more movies for you<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/suttonhoo22/6189856514/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6161/6189856514_fab79ec724_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/suttonhoo22/6189856514/">more movies for you</a><br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/suttonhoo22/">suttonhoo</a></span></div>Downers Grove, IL<br clear="all" />suttonhoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292408097588177380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23631803.post-20762691302095158162011-09-21T21:37:00.001-05:002011-09-21T21:37:22.453-05:00hello old friend<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/suttonhoo22/6171269906/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6175/6171269906_53780d9985_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/suttonhoo22/6171269906/">hello old friend</a><br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/suttonhoo22/">suttonhoo</a></span></div>Central Camera. Just now.<br />Chicago, IL<br clear="all" />suttonhoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292408097588177380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23631803.post-25337076197492545732011-09-18T18:45:00.001-05:002011-09-18T18:45:41.969-05:003.<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/suttonhoo22/6160324091/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6160/6160324091_6a5c5abf79_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/suttonhoo22/6160324091/">3.</a><br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/suttonhoo22/">suttonhoo</a></span></div>Lincoln Park<br />Chicago, IL<br clear="all" />suttonhoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292408097588177380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23631803.post-30572388393944782412011-09-17T10:39:00.001-05:002011-09-17T10:39:24.950-05:00bedside.<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/suttonhoo22/6156005892/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6172/6156005892_8edf28cd21_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/suttonhoo22/6156005892/">bedside.</a><br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/suttonhoo22/">suttonhoo</a></span></div>(home)<br clear="all" />suttonhoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292408097588177380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23631803.post-67930502276395738092011-09-10T09:15:00.001-05:002011-09-10T09:15:20.902-05:00that's some pig.<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/suttonhoo22/6132587507/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6090/6132587507_de3af8239b_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/suttonhoo22/6132587507/">that's some pig.</a><br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/suttonhoo22/">suttonhoo</a></span></div>Sandwich County Fair<br />We do this every year.<br />The biscuits and gravy are to die for.<br /><br />Sandwich, IL<br clear="all" />suttonhoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292408097588177380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23631803.post-36206598047826601422011-09-07T21:02:00.001-05:002011-09-07T21:02:50.317-05:00tunneling<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/suttonhoo22/6125956146/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6077/6125956146_2e38d5c531_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/suttonhoo22/6125956146/">tunneling</a><br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/suttonhoo22/">suttonhoo</a></span></div>Underground<br />Chicago, IL<br clear="all" />suttonhoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292408097588177380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23631803.post-82844460789599722762011-09-05T09:16:00.001-05:002011-09-05T09:16:12.122-05:00herb jelly (other than mint)<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/suttonhoo22/tags/minnesotastatefair/show/" title="herb jelly (other than mint) by suttonhoo, on Flickr"><img alt="herb jelly (other than mint)" height="332" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6085/6116298852_02a4bfd24c.jpg" width="500" /></a>suttonhoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292408097588177380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23631803.post-68127589817937778282011-09-04T18:52:00.002-05:002011-09-04T18:52:38.499-05:00encircled<div class="mobile-photo">
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When a redwood is injured -- like this one, struck by lightening sometime in the hushed twilight that is the steady state of Muir Woods outside of San Francisco -- the burl wood at its base buds and the tree regenerates through fresh shoots. Before long those shoots, too, grow into giants, ringing the roots of their fallen ancestor.<br />
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This is a belated post: I snapped this shot nearly a month ago, on my way up to Jackson, California to look in on my mother who isn't well. My aunts joined me there, and we took care of the kind of business that needs doing when lightening strikes and burl wood buds. My sister went before me, and was met by the strength of a dear aunt then, too.<br />
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Encircling, strengthening.suttonhoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292408097588177380noreply@blogger.com0