Month: December 2025

A Glitch in the Cat Distribution Network…

…has found YOU…

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Photo by Roman.

…with all the aggressive affection of a rodent’s waking nightmare. Can you know it now, looming over your head: a ravening, toothfull, stinking end to life and to Minnie?

“Meow.” What a comic understatement.

Not to worry… It’s gone by now, I’m sure. It looks like the property management people are aggressively on the job and it was lucky indeed that I happened by when I did with my camera.

Winter

Shortly before Thanksgiving, it was hardly a freezing day when I photographed part of a graffitied wall. These two excerpts were part of a series of artworks / graffiti that travel up the alley on the western retaining wall of the CTA Red Line embankment just north of the Loyola station. I didn’t have time to examine the rest of it but most of the artwork seemed to be obscure tags done in delirious typography.

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Photo by Roman.

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Photo by Roman.

“Les larmes de la Seine”

This is another stop motion animation from Piktura and very well done at that. I suspect that if you are reasonably familiar with Algeria’s revolt against French rule and the documentaries and fiction that have grown up around it, there may be a conversation embedded in the video, there for the parsing. For myself, lacking that context, this short (8:44) video is just very, very strange and weird. That’s a recommendation, of sorts…

Credits: 5th year students 3D short movie directed by Yanis BELAID, Eliott BENARD, Nicolas MAYEUR, Etienne MOULIN, Lisa VICENTE, Hadrien PINOT, Philippine SINGER and Alice LETAILLEUR.

“17 october 1961, “Algerian workers” get down the streets to manifest against the mandatory curfew imposed by the Police prefecture. “