Raindrop gems
Thursday, 1 March 2007
Even before the tornadoes hit Alabama (sadly, 18 dead already in AL and beyond), we saw rain here. Between the drops, jcb and I got a wee walk in….
Welcome to March!
Musings
Reflective façades
Thursday, 22 February 2007
Outside the perimeter, here in Atlanta, means several things. One is tall, reflective buildings. —A few places….
And traffic! —Many places…. (Not shown.)
Illustrator map-making
Tuesday, 20 February 2007
What you’re looking at here is a moderately high-resolution aerial photo (more or less) of an eroded hill-peak down in the Mixteca Alta (see this page), with some shapes drawn on it (thank you Illustrator). The shapes variously represent temple-mounds (the white squares), residential terraces (those long shapes rather like bacilli), and retaining walls (the long grey wide lines).
The whole mess is a map of a residential and civic-ceremonial architectural cluster slopped across a ridge, part of a now-abandoned community that extended across a spider-shaped set of ridge tops beyond the portion shown here, and had several thousand residents in its heyday. Occupation spanned the Classic and Postclassic (roughly), but now the hilltop is pretty eroded making discerning the architecture not only difficult while standing there, but hair-pullingly difficult if you’re trying to make this map—my task for today!
Tree face
Sunday, 18 February 2007
The other day I mentioned kids and dogs as an obvious possibility for somewhat or actually unexplainable features around domestic archaeological sites. So, was this floral art kids or adults?
(Obviously, even the best of show types of the canine persuasion are out here….)
On another note, here’re suggestions for overcoming stage fright. In a nutshell: “Don’t think about yourself.”
Yeah. If you can….
Grayness reigns
Saturday, 17 February 2007
Very gray and overcast late this afternoon here in Midtown Atlanta, rather like last fall in central Michigan….
Fearless & Paris
Thursday, 18 January 2007
Just finished Walter Moseley’s Fear of the Dark. Excellent, excellent, excellent.
Flying Tires
Tuesday, 16 January 2007
For a guy who designs and therefore deconstructs logos, I get quite a giggle out of jcb’s nickname for the logo of the Ohio State Patrol: the Flying Tires!
Angular braces
Sunday, 5 November 2006
Travel day today, which for me meant a connecting flight through the Dallas-Fort Worth airport. The place has several terminals connected, for those already through the security inspection, by an above-ground wheeled monorail (lots of fun!). I enjoyed the architecture framing the waiting area, nothing else to do ’cause I knew I didn’t want to tote the Sunday NYT (paper version), which is large even with the icky sections removed.
Misty morning
Monday, 30 October 2006
When subjected to an overnight rain, this desert country, like the temperate forests that are more familiar to me, develops a lovely morning fog, which is highly aesthetic with the more convoluted topography.