Motivate the Hate, Digit Silhouette

We return to the doin's of corporate clown Mr. Buttons...

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some pics from 10/8/08

something a little different...

Testing the new lens I got a little while a go

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Another random doodle of some dude that looked like he some kind of lousy attitude

Forgotten Future, Street Steam

What happens when the tin laughter and clanging steel applause become just lost memories on an obsolete, unreadable memory disc? In some forgotten circus tent of the future, the synthesized calliopy music drones on as IRON CLOWN, with chipped paint and rusting skin, endlessly mimes dusty vaudeville bits to the empty bleachers... ****
Sidewalk getting a steam cleaning on Clark st.

Downtown scenes from 10/8/08

In living color yet (not sure which I like better, the B&W or Color...)
the antennae of the Sears Tower cast shadows through the sky

Buttons Emergence, Steel Pose

Revisiting the Jar of Spiders, we meet Mr. Buttons, the manager of personnel & company morale at Grodius Inc...

(left click on pic to embiggen)

Here's a place that looks like a nice locale for a horror movie
View from the Union Pacific Northwest Metra train
A little armature I fabricated a couple of decades ago, and has been just sitting around ever since; quite posable (and what a sloppy drawing desk...)!

A Mug Supreme, Reverse Nostalgia

Was just hearing more stuff about executive compensation at failing banks and such, and this popped into my head:

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Thought the textures in this pic would prove to be interesting

Hey, what's that lurking under the stairs?
Good gravy! It's a Commodore Business Machines PET (Personal Electronic Transactor) 2001 computer! It has an amazing 8k of RAM!
Every so often, one reads comments like "That was like what $$$$ is today", let's say if some one made $50 a week in 1948, someone would write "That's like $800 (or whatever) today!", basically pointing out how much less the dollar buys now, as opposed to then. Well, how about this -- back in 1989, I bought a 512KB RAM module for my Amiga 500 computer, and it cost something like $100; Just a couple of months ago, I bought 4GB of RAM for about $80, which would have cost $800,000 in 1989...

The Calculus of Dweeb

Yes, I'm sure more than one genius has calculated themeselves out of existance.

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Seen under an overpass on Montrose ave., June 11th, 2005

a little further west...
The Merchandise Mart stop on the El, 6/13/05
looking over the railing

Carnival Science, Elston Wedge

A Jar of Spiders strip that features Dr. Raymondo, the Unusual Scientist.

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pics from various places around town, from various times


This is a wedge shaped building on Elston -- Ha, "Elston Wedge" sounds like the name of some contemporary of James Bond

Ponder Bobble

Just the other day, a friend of mine mentioned something called "smile detection" technology on cameras. It seems that one can set such a camera to snap a picture as soon as a smile is detected on the subject (though how this would work on Ocelots and Salamanders, let alone asparagas, is something that puzzles me... ). Of course, the first thing that came to my mind (as I'm sure it did with many of you) is: What if some madman developed nose-pick detection technology? Yet another thing to worry about in this upside-down world...

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What if historic figures had lived their lives as human bobble-heads? I'm sure our history books would be pretty different -- but for better, or worse? Something to ponder, for sure.

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Odd Dreams, Stalled

Hey, it's October, the Halloween season -- how about a hideous monstrosity to usher in the madness?

I like to call this piece Dreams DO Come True...

Oh, yes -- there must be some kind of story for that!

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A bunch of pigeons on Wabash

Two years ago they tore down the North Shore (aka Adelphi) theater in my neighborhood. This is what we've had for the last year (Where do they put the projector?): If they made an American version of Dr. Who, I'd guess they'd use one of those for the TARDIS...

Here's a pic of my pal Pam, taken in non-optimum conditions, but it did come out rather interesting

Corporate Family, Visions Through Dirt

This bit from the Jar of Spiders shows us that Grodius Incorporated is really like one big family...

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Hey, this pic is the 10,000th I've taken using my trusty Canon PowerShot A570! The following pics were taken through the smudged, scuffed, dirty and greasy window of the Union Pacific North Metra train heading into Downtown Chicago. Hmmm looks rather apocalyptic (my favorie is the last one)!

Generous Severance, Train to the Clouds

LITTLE KNOWN FACT DEPT.

Did you know that every time an Executive takes advantage of an insanely generous severance package, an angel in Money Heaven get's it's wings?

It's True. Really!

Some pics from the trek to work on Tuesday