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iphonetography

However late to the game I may be, I’m starting to appreciate what can be done with the iPhone’s camera.  It beats lugging around my Canon G11, and the auto-focus may be (read as “certainly is”) even better.  If only I can kick my addiction to adding a cross process filter to every single photo…

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Ogilvie

Fact: police officers in borderline tactical gear do not like people taking pictures of empty Metra train platforms.  Not that I blame them for finding it “peculiar”.  But the strange ambiance of the oversized architectural scale and eerie tungsten lights have always had me wanting to shoot photos at Ogilvie.  So I took out my […]

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Souvenirs

I bought these records back in 2007 at a thrift shop in Paris because they were so ridiculously great.  I’m still kind of surprised that I then schlepped them with me to Germany, and eventually back to Chicago – I don’t know the artists at all, and I don’t even own a record player.  But […]

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Tools

Wacom Intuos 3 on the left, and a sumi-e brush pen from a Japanese stationary store in San Francisco (across from Kinokuniya in the Japantown mall) on the right.

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