notes.husk.org. tagged chicago.

2012-01-31

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theartofgooglebooks:

Map left folded through digitization.
From the front matter of Chicago and the Great Conflagration, by Elias Colbert and Everett Chamberlin (1871). [Here]

Map left folded through digitization.

From the front matter of Chicago and the Great Conflagration, by Elias Colbert and Everett Chamberlin (1871). [Here]

2011-05-27

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A crane for book fetching at the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library, University of Chicago. (via Robots, Not Humans, Retrieve Your Books at $81 Million “Library of the Future” at Singularity Hub, via dv at the Daily Chump).

2011-01-05

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megpickard:

Vivian Maier - Her Discovered Work

There’s an exhibition in Chicago until early April. Tempting.

“ Black and white came out of Chicago. There wasn’t very much color really – it was gray, like the outskirts of London. Then you had this fantastic number of fire escapes, water towers, wires all over the place, bridges, elevated railroads going through the city. Looking up, there’d be patches of light, wonderful patterns. There was always a bleak white sky in Chicago, pollution, of course. There was no problem getting contrast. So using contrasting fine-grain film and developing it, and printing on contrasting paper, you got something that immediately had to be black and white. Chicago, the fantastic skyline, that absolutely triggered me off — and ended up as the book Fragments of a City. ”

Keld Helmer-Petersen, in an interview with Martin Parr.

2009-08-02

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“ It goes to show the danger of entrusting anything spiritual to the clergy. ”

Frank Lloyd Wright, quotes in the FT’s Architectour of Chicago. His Robie House was then owned - and nearly demolished by - the Chicago Theological Seminary. (via ChrisDodo)

2009-07-16

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thedailywhat:

End Of An Era of the Day: It’s official.

[photo via.]

Hey! Americans! SHUT UP.

London used to have the NatWest Tower, and then they left because the IRA kept planting bombs next to it, and now it’s Tower 42. Which is a pretty good answer to “what do you can a tower that’s the answer to the question of life, the universe, and everything”, but it’s not the same, and so people still call it the NatWest Tower, and everyone knows what you’re talking about, and nobody really cares, and you know what?

The Sears Tower will be exactly the same. Except in the guidebooks.

Also, you can go up the Willis Tower without having to buy cocktails in a bar with overcomplicated pre-booking procedures. So shut up. Again.

notes.husk.org. scribblings by Paul Mison.