Photo / graphic by Roman.
It is, of course, Calder’s Flamingo sculpture in Chicago’s Federal Plaza, the body of it anyway, made slightly more vivid by yet another cheap trick.
Month: September 2022
Not Yet… But Soon
Photo by Roman.
Chicago Botanic Garden, 2019.
Peak autumn is just around the corner.
Shhhh…
The plants have ears:
Sunflower Leaves Enspelled
I approached this wondering if it would work. The leaves are big and thick. But they illuminated just fine, presenting a weird and wonderful geometry of light and shadow and texture. It’s hard not to imagine this as some kind of magic.
The Unreal
Photo / Graphic by Roman.
“It’s No Use…”
“… stroking them and saying: ‘Puss, puss, puss.'”
— The Bonzo Dog Band
Photo / graphic by Roman.
Smokin’ the Hood
Photo by Roman.
The weather as reflected by the hood of a car. It’s another one of those cosmos in a drop of water moments for me…
Heels Over Head in Love
Photo by Roman.
Dog Bright
Photo by Roman.
The above popped up on a lamp post at Touhy and Sheridan recently. It appears to be signed, you’ll note.
This dog has a stylistic resemblance to a dog from last June:
Though that dog was unsigned… I expect to find others around the Rogers Park neighborhood and indeed just yesterday I found another at Morse & Ashland…
Beach Blanket Bingo
Whachewlookinat?
Just like the movie did, the title of this post promises lascivious scandal and delivers… grasshoppers? Well, the movie had Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon… and Buster Keaton but rather less sex and more prurience than this post has… from one day at Leone Beach Park:
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Yip Abides 