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- Restored Uayma Church
This winter has been one for the books: It’s mid-January and Chicago has already breezed past it’s “normal” amount of snow for the year, not to mention the couple of days of negative 30+ below. Today, it’s 16 degrees and feels like a heatwave — well, not really, but it doesn’t hurt as bad. The [...]
- 2009 Desk Calendar
For some of us, myself included, 2009 snuck up quietly. ‘08 was a year filled with many changes and self-discoveries — some extra time and a chance to start a new path being one of them. Now is the moment to present the fruits of that extra time: The 2009 Desk Calendar.
Each of the twelve [...]
- Winter Sparkle
The calendar and the snow-covered ground says it’s official: It’s December. Still stuffed from Thanksgiving and still stunned by the realization that Christmas is merely three weekends away, what else are you to do but enjoy the season? My neighbors have decorated their trees and hung lights on their porches, but none can compare to [...]
- Sweet Art
I’ve had the pleasure of being surrounded by a very talented circle of friends for the last decade-plus: people who love painting, drawing, sculpting, photographing, video-ing, in general making and doing. Stephanie Sweet, local Detroit artist (until this month anyway, New Mexico has her now…), created these two pieces in 2005, and I’ve had my [...]
- Beijing Opening Ceremonies
I admit it: I love the Olypmics, specifically the opening and closing ceremonies.
Friday’s artistic portion of the Beijing Opening Ceremonies may have been the most spectacular one that I have seen. 15,000 performers took part in Zhang Yimou’s, China’s most famous film director, creation. Nods were given to Confucius, Tai-Chi, calligraphy, the invention of [...]
