I wrote this piece as my submission to the the3sixfive project. It was published today on their site, and I’m presenting it here to you. “Active Recovery” is what personal trainers call it: that’s when you follow a particularly intense training period with one that’s a little easier on your muscles, giving you the chance …
A HiFi from Don Draper’s Apartment
We recently found this hifi in a local thrift shop, and after a little cleanup it now sits in our living room. It definitely has the Mad Men-era design, which we think is a pretty cool look. Click here to read more about it at joesradiopage.com.
Morning Greenery
Since it’s been so dry here in the Chicago area, I’ve been up every morning around 5:00 am watering all the plants around the house. We put in a bunch of new stuff out front and it would be a shame if it all dried up. This is what the ornamental grass along our driveway …
Silent Summer 2012
The Silent Film Society of Chicago just announced its lineup for their summer film festival, one of our favorite events of the season. The festival runs on Friday nights from July 20 through August 24 at the Portage Theater in Chicago. This year will bring us some comedy from Harold Lloyd, some action from Douglas …
Revere Eight
This is the Revere Eight 8mm movie camera my dad used since the 1950s to capture our family events. It’s because of this that all my childhood memories look like The Wonder Years. He gave me this camera a few years ago, and I hope to one day get it working again.
Chicago Board of Trade
There are only a couple of weeks during the year when the sun shines on the façade of the Chicago Board of Trade Building at the angle you see here. I happened to have my camera with me the other morning, so I captured it. With the morning sun shining at this angle, you can …
Cloud Gate (and Bike the Drive)
This past Sunday the 11th annual Bike the Drive event was held on Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive. After riding the 30-mile route, I took the time to ride around downtown Chicago a bit, and wound up at Millennium Park, where I shot this photo of the Cloud Gate (aka “The Bean”) sculpture. There were over …
Martini
A classic martini, created by my lovely wife.
After the Storm
We had a storm blow through earlier tonight, and at the very end we saw this in the Eastern sky. Becca grabbed my camera and captured the rainbow.
Preparing for the Summer
We usually wait until mid-May to set up the patio furniture and put the canvas on the gazebo, but we had a small window on Sunday morning where we were able to get it done. So why not set the video camera up and do a little time-lapse? This entire operation took about an hour, …