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Two photos available at 20x200 today!

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:44 GMT

I am really excited to announce that I have two limited edition photographs for sale today at one of the coolest art websites around: Jen Bekman's 20x200. I stopped selling photos online over a year ago, but when I set up that shop I was really inspired by 20x200, so it's an honor to have some work available there at its extremely affordable prices. If you're not familiar with 20x200, it's a

Lion, GM Headquarters

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:48 GMT

For about a month the estate auction company across the street from GM's headquarters in the Renaissance Center was displaying about 200 mounted creatures from the estate of an elderly member of the local gentry who owned 10,000 acres of African savanna where he would go and play big game hunter. I made the mistake of letting the kid watch The Lion King after her grandmother took her to the

The same doorway everywhere

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:23 GMT

Thumbing through Seamus Heaney's The Rattle Bag last night, reading poems to the girl to put her to sleep, I came across and read this one by Patrick Kavanagh that I hadn't read in years. Innocence They laughed at one I loved- The triangular hill that hung Under the Big Forth. They said That I was bounded by the whitethorn hedges Of the little farm and did not know the world. But I knew that

Shirtless in November

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:41 GMT

I was down in Toledo on Saturday and saw a bunch of shirtless old dudes doing yard work and some shirtless kids in a beat up old truck drinking Mountain Dew. It was in the mid-sixties in mid-November. Yesterday was a bit chillier, but we still saw this shirtless guy washing windows at the Cass Cafe. There were girls inside taking his picture. I love how people go a little crazy when it

Robot 2.0

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:28 GMT

The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) has a great free Family Day every month, and yesterday the theme was ROBOTS and SPACE INVADERS! The museum had a bunch of incredible materials and art supplies set out for kids to build their own robot and space alien costumes. Some of the costumes were really incredible (my architect neighbor was there building his son a very impressive getup

Boys on Playground, Turn-of-the-Century Brooklyn

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:53 GMT

This photo was taken by Jenny Chandler (b. 1865) of Brooklyn, New York. Chandler was a pioneering photojournalist, a talented woman in a male-dominated field. She died in 1922 and left behind 800 delicate glass plate negatives as her legacy. Many have been digitized and can be viewed on The Henry Ford's new flickr site, here.

Check out those incredible turn-of-the-century swings!

Previous Week's Urchin

Nearly all of these urchins were discovered in the photography archives of the Library of Congress (and available without copyright restrictions online). Otherwise, urchin photos will be credited to the appropriate photographer with a link to its source (unless they come from my own collection of photographs from unknown photographers). If there is ever a copyright concern, do not hesitate to contact me.

Busy Bee Hardware

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:19 GMT

I bug Richie Crabb for a week to let me talk to him about his hardware store. I'd assumed it would be simple: I'd take a few pictures, scrawl out a few stories, and be out of his hair twenty minutes tops. But every time I come in he's shooting the shit with somebody and I don't want to interrupt. As I wait for him, lingering in the aisles and watching the employees helping customers I realize

typetext

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:35 GMT

A few months ago a writer for the Wall Street Journal bemoaned the lack of national retailers in this city with the overt message is that it is fundamentally a terrible thing. Later I read about Icelanders celebrating the retreat of McDonalds from Reykjavik as a silver lining to the economic collapse there (even the Wall Street Journal wryly notes, "As cultural calamities go, there are worse

Downtown at night, from Brush Park

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:26 GMT

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Mandatory late fall activity: go jump in a leaf pile

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:13 GMT

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