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Lazarus, Arise

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Published May 26, 2010 at 12:05 a.m.
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Who would call a realty company Lazarus, and why? It has to be deliberate. Maybe this company buys up properties in moribund neighborhoods and, well, brings them back to life. That would be nice. Maybe the owner thinks that St. Louis is a dead city and that any deal s/he makes is an act of resuscitation. I don't know. Can't find a thing about this outfit on the web ... But there is more to it. The white graffiti on the rolling door on the right says "the karma effect." That mixes religions and

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A Final Note From San Francisco

Published April 16, 2010 at 12:05 a.m.
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Gotta get out and shoot some new local material. For now, a final image from San Francisco. In how many cities could you find this? This man sat on the sidewalk of The Embarcadero outside the Ferry Building. He provided poetry, much lacking in contemporary Western life, upon request. You tell him what it's worth to you. He will accept your donation, large or small, and summon the muse to his old manual typewriter. Art when you need it, whether rich or poor. That's poetry ... Finally, there is a

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Well, It's Not Geneva

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Published April 7, 2010 at 12:05 a.m.
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I have visited Geneva, Switzerland, once. Years ago, Mrs. C, the kids and I were staying in the Jura Mountains of eastern France and we popped over for a day. What I remember was that it was pretty, it was the most expensive place on earth I had visited to date and it had this enormous water spout shoot up out of the lake toward the sky ... It was, of course, the famous Jet d'Eau. (My American ears heard only "jeddo" for a while and I had no idea what they were talking about). Well, the Lou has

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Gateway Arch going dark

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Published Sept. 16, 2009 at 5:54 p.m.

Gateway Arch going dark ...

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Park in Overdrive

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Published Sept. 9, 2009 at 12:00 a.m.

This weekend, the Gateway to the West will send compasses spinning in all directions as the Arch grounds transform into a gateway to the diverse wonders of our country's national, state and local parks. Masterminded by the National Park Service, ParkPalooza brings St. Louis a host of interact ...

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Last Stop

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Published Aug. 26, 2009 at 6:00 a.m.
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St. Louis Union Station is now a luxury hotel, a group of restaurants and a failing tourist mall. In its day it was one of the great railroad junctions of North America. As such, it had to have a place for travelers to stay. Here's the former entrance to the Terminal Hotel ... Sure, railroad stations and airports have terminals but this sounds so much like terminal disease or "terminate with extreme prejudice" (remember that phrase in Apocalypse Now?). The Terminal Hotel sounds like the roach

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Let's Do The Lens Warp Again

Published Aug. 19, 2009 at 6:05 a.m.
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No, not time warp, lens warp. Plus HDR for further image bending, just for fun. This view is southeast from Citygarden, through a bit of 2 Arcs X 4, 230.5 Degrees Arc X 5 by Bernar Venet. I like the rubbery look of the building on the left ... It's caused by using a 17mm lens on a full frame sensor ... TOMORROW: Thursday Arch Series here and a companion image on Gateway. They are two snaps taken from a tripod in rapid succession. Same subject. Same composition. Different exposure and editing

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Portraits of St. Louis Artists: J. C. Gray

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Published Aug. 10, 2009 at 6:00 a.m.
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J. C. Gray was one of the most interesting people I met during studios open house weekend. Her approach is simple, sincere and lovely: she paints what she sees and feels. She doesn't have a website. She's not on Facebook. She has no need of e-mail (she said I could send us to her daughter if I wanted to). I was almost overcome with the charm of the painting she was beginning. Gray told me that it represented how she felt when she was at her happiest as a child ... Flickr says that this is my

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Portraits of St. Louis Artists: Jay Babcock

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Published Aug. 3, 2009 at 6:00 a.m.
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Jay Babcock makes art that has something to say. The installation on the wall is in the shape of our state, made up of losing Missouri Lottery tickets. We talked about what this might communicate. Who buys lottery tickets, and why? A cynic once described lotteries as a tax on the stupid but it's much more complex than that. Lottery tickets buy big dreams for little money - unless you get hooked on them ... You might purchase them if you have debts, little money and a lot of dissatisfaction. It

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Portraits Of St. Louis Artists: Sandra Marchewa

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Published July 27, 2009 at 6:00 a.m.
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Whimsy. Sandra Marchewa stands in a little cloud of her own making, buzzing with bug-like elves, mini-monsters and flying pigs. I can imagine a huge array of these critters hanging from a ceiling for a viewer's disorientation, drifting from peripheral vision to central focus and out again. You might need some Dramamine ... SPECIAL NOTE TO THATONEGIRL: thank you for your notes and comments in Flickr yesterday. I wrote you back at the address you gave me but the message bounced - Yahoo said there

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