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Fall Color with Graffiti

Fall Color with Graffiti, originally uploaded by bradipo. Taken just north of Kaufman Lake Park, under the railroad tracks and past both halves of the I-72 overpass. I liked the dwindling fall color...

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Bear with Giant Pine Cone

Bear with Giant Pine Cone, originally uploaded by bradipo. Public sculpture of a bear in Urbana. To me that thing he’s holding looks like a giant pine cone, but that doesn’t seem very likely. Bear...

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Champaign to lose Angela Rivers mural

I heard on the news this morning that Champaign was going to lose (to building renovations) a large public mural by Angela Rivers. The mural, painted in 1978, is in pretty poor shape, which I suspect...

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Chicago trip, with sculpture

Jackie and I traveled by train to Chicago, going up Tuesday and returning Wednesday. I like traveling by rail. It’s is more comfortable and more convenient than traveling by either car or plane,...

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Adoration of the Snowman

Adoration of the Snowman, originally uploaded by bradipo. Photo by Philip Brewer. Snow sculpture by some neighbor kid, I assume. I almost captured the posture in this picture—the snowman leaning back,...

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Public art in Chrysler’s Detroit ad

As a big fan of public art, I was particularly impressed with the fragments of public art featured in Chrysler’s “imported from Detroit” Superbowl ad: There’s a lot to like here. There’s a lot of art...

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More on public art in Detroit

Apropos my previous post on public art in Detroit, I just saw that spokesman for the mayor’s office has stated that they’d consider erecting any donated public art, including a statue of Robocop.

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The Meadowbrook Jazz Walk

One of the unique events in Champaign-Urbana is the Jazz Walk. Bands (duos and small combos) are scattered across the sculpture garden at Meadowbrook Park, and you walk from one to the next. The result...

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Decorative Brassicas

Spotted these decorative brassicas by the front walk of a house near campus, and liked them—a seasonally appropriate floral alternative for December. Not the best picture ever—my phone had a pretty...

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The birds think it’s spring

Jackie and I went for our first bike ride of the year. We followed our traditional first-ride route, around Kaufman Lake, past the Olympic Monument, around Parkland College, and then back. This year we...

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The wonderful Spurlock Museum

Plaster copy of Venus de Milo. A hundred-odd years ago, a lot of towns and cities had their own museum. In those days, international travel was beyond the reach of ordinary people, and museums saw it...

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Kal-Haven training walk #4

Continuing our series of long walks to prepare for a possible through hike of the Kal-Haven trail, Jackie and I walked 16.72 miles today. We walked to the University of Illinois’s arboretum, and then...

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Playing Ingress (now in open beta!)

For about six weeks now, I’ve been playing Ingress. It’s a game. You could almost call it a video game—you see what’s happening on a video screen—but to play you have to go outside: The action of the...

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Boring post: Fiddling around with my website

I started having odd troubles with the theme I’d been using for this website, so I thought I’d look into alternatives. I tried quite a few, most of which had one problem or another. Among the things...

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Misleading pelvis depiction

I mentioned a couple of posts back about being surprised by how high the top of my iliac crest was—nearly as high as my navel. As chance would have it—not such an unlikely chance, with the date...

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Fall Color with Graffiti

Fall Color with Graffiti, originally uploaded by bradipo. Taken just north of Kaufman Lake Park, under the railroad tracks and past both halves of the I-72 overpass. I liked the dwindling fall color...

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Bear with Giant Pine Cone

Bear with Giant Pine Cone, originally uploaded by bradipo. Public sculpture of a bear in Urbana. To me that thing he’s holding looks like a giant pine cone, but that doesn’t seem very likely. Bear...

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Champaign to lose Angela Rivers mural

I heard on the news this morning that Champaign was going to lose (to building renovations) a large public mural by Angela Rivers. The mural, painted in 1978, is in pretty poor shape, which I suspect...

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Chicago trip, with sculpture

Jackie and I traveled by train to Chicago, going up Tuesday and returning Wednesday. I like traveling by rail. It’s is more comfortable and more convenient than traveling by either car or plane,...

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Adoration of the Snowman

Adoration of the Snowman, originally uploaded by bradipo. Photo by Philip Brewer. Snow sculpture by some neighbor kid, I assume. I almost captured the posture in this picture—the snowman leaning back,...

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