New American Ghost Town

Richard Rothman Captures American Dream

Photos: Richard Rothman

Perusing the perimeter of my purlieu, I stumbled across photographic article in The New Yorker by Suzanne Shaleen about a project by photographer Richard Rothman. The article is brief, a concise précis, if you will, of the actual way the events most likely played out in real life. But, article has it, Rothman had to leave his campsite in the North California Redwoods where he was shooting for a project called "Redwood Saw" to head into town for supplies. The town was Crescent City, which had experienced an economic boom back in the day, now sidelined as a run-down, glorified ghost town after. The project found new direction. The photos are in black and white, which casts the town and it's residents in a grim and sombre, but objective light.

Bitter Days Ahead

Learning the Craft (beer that is)

Before I Begin...

I bitch a lot on this blog - particularly about things I can't stand, flaws prevalent in the human condition. I was going to start this entry (about something I L-O-V-E love) expressing hatred. I was going to start it off like this: "One thing I can't stand is bad beer." Instead, I'm going to feign cornucopian. Here we go.

A small assembly of the massive tap line at J.P. Henley's, St. Augustine, FL (photo: me)

Let Me Begin...

Rooms Like White Elephants

Archinect feature project, "White Elephant (Privately Soft)" by Jaminez Lai.

All images: White Elephant, by Jaminez Lai, via Bureau-Spectacular

One morning, I was sitting on my back porch, sipping coffee and lending my mind to idle musing, when I suddenly and completely out of the blue decided, with vocal proclamation, "I'm interested in architecture." The interest was not fleeting. Too, despite minor colour blindness, I've always had a workable eye for interior design. This, though undoubtedly inherited from my mother, may be more my self-diagnosed OCD than her inadvertent influence.