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Early morning, went to help my friend Amanda move and almost immediately hurt my back. I decided to deviate from my normal back injury strategy (I.e., ignore the problem and keep lifting heavy things; go to the gym; pretend I am an invincible superhuman mutant with special healing powers) and headed home to spend some quality time with an ice pack.
It seemed to work. I was feeling better later that evening so went out and got some froyo on the loop. Back's still a little bit sore, but not incapacitating. It's my upper back this time, which is a nice change of pace.
An artist draws a caricature in Componere, an art gallery on the Delmar Loop, during the 2012 Loop Ice Carnival.
This is the inside of Vintage Vinyl, a record store located in the Delmar Loop, a really cool district in St. Louis near Washington University in University City (U-City, for short). The Loop is filled with clothing boutiques and second-hand clothes shops, used book stores, coffee shops, cool restaurants, and the like.
Vintage Vinyl sells new and used music in all platforms--records, cds, tapes, 7-inch discs, 8-tracks, and all that good stuff. They even have listening stations where you can preview records before you buy them, and they have great prices on used stuff. As you can see, there are rows and rows of every genre imaginable. I spent a lot of time and money in here when I was a teenager. It's the kind of place where, when you leave, your fingers feel dusty and sticky from digging through all that music, but it's totally worth it when you score that rare album you've been searching for for a long time. (Or when you find another copy of the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill because your old copy skips because you played it 7362685 times and it can't take no more!)
You have to stare at this picture for a little while to really take in everything housed in the store. I spent over an hour in there on Tuesday afternoon. It was musical heaven.
Found a whole new area today with some interesting abandoned buildings. Not pictured in this photo, though--this is just the loop.
Added my D7000 to the list of cameras I've used this year.
The St. Louis side of the Delmar Loop district includes the Moonrise Hotel, Pageant Concert NightClub, and the Pin-Up Bowl
Part of the "Mannequins on the Loop" art project on The Delmar Loop in St. Louis, Missouri. This is "Tandermonium" by Amanda Schmidt, representing Big Shark Bicycle Company.
I was wandering around the loop taking pictures and they asked if I wanted a picture. I said sure, and they clarified that they wanted to take a picture with me IN it for a TikTok, not for me to take their picture. So that happened. But also they were okay with me taking a picture of them afterwards. So, we're all on each others' social media now.
Was going to meet up with a friend for FroYo on the loop last night. She was running late, and it was a nice night out, so I wandered up and down Delmar taking pictures. Two hours later, she finally got off work and texted that she'd changed her mind, so I went home.
Kinda jonesing for froyo now.
Had an afternoon to myself and wanted to stop by Cheese-ology for some mac & cheese before they closed for good. Snapped this down on the loop. I think I may have gotten some weird looks from the people inside the restaurant when I did so.
A little piece of Art outside the Regional Arts Commission building down on the Loop. This was where the bulk of the three-day CaseAware Users' Group conference took place (CaseAware being the big piece of software I support as my day job).
The conference included several big catered buffet-style meals. I ate way, way too much.
I had a couple of VERY WEIRD interactions with people today.
A dude at the Goodwill Outlet wanted to shake my hand. And wouldn't let go of it when our hands had thoroughly and entirely shaken. And he seemed to be either wanting to thank me for being a hero and risking my life for the country, or wanted me to know that he was a hero who'd risked his life for the country, and at some point he brought up slavery and it was super awkward and I wanted to run away but he wouldn't let go of my hand.
Second, I took a picture of some pretty flowers on a bush outside someone's house, and the owner of the house saw me, and she seemed very upset at me for that, and she followed me around the corner and took a picture of me by my car.
They were both very uncomfortable and I did not enjoy them.
Griffin House in front of abandoned church on Delmar in St. Louis after opening for Xavier Rudd.
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Tacos! Tacotacotacotacotacotacotaco. Bridget and I went for tacos. Also, we had an appetizer of baby octopus, which was tasty as long as I steadfastly refused to think about what I was putting in my mouth.
Afterwards: Karaoke where we neither got up and sang nor even really went inside to witness anyone else singing.
I went to the loop by myself and ate too much, which is a thing I do too much, which turns out (spoilers!) to be an incredibly bad idea long term.
Had planned a photoshoot with my friend Natalie, but she bailed at the last minute. Went down to the Loop to wander and take pictures and have some froyo, because froyo fixes everything.
Was shooting with my Sigma DP2. I've been in a bit of a Sigma DP2 sort of mood of late. Not sure why, exactly.
This sketch of the University City Plaza as envisioned by Edward Gardner Lewis may have been drawn by Lewis Publishing Company artist George Blake. It shows the Woman's Magazine Building and the conservatory of the Press Annex on the right. The Egyptian building that was planned for the People's United States Bank is on the left, although the building as it was constructed had less exterior decoration, the obelisks were never added and there was no streetcar entry beneath the building. By the time this building was constructed, the bank had been closed, and it became the Woman's National Daily Building. The Lion Gates were constructed farther west. This was probably drawn about 1905.
As a student at WashU, I'm pretty familiar with the Loop, but I never thought I'd get this into it! After warming up with a couple smaller orthographic panoramas, and with some inspiration from other projects such as Michael Koller's Seamless City (http://www.seamlesscity.com/artwork.html) and a similar project the architecture students at school were doing - I set out to capture the Loop in it's entirety.
Details:
North Side
Composition: 270 source images
Appox. Resolution: 115000 x 3800 - 437 megapixels
Date/Time: 2/5/2006 8:01 AM - 9:14 AM
South Side
Composition: 269 source images
Appox. Resolution: 126000 x 3900 - 491 megapixels
Date/Time: 2/6/2006 2:36 PM - 3:23 PM
The first image on the bottom is a full size crop from the north (top) side. The second image is from the south (bottom) side. Street signs, window hangings, pedestrians, and even the wear and tear on the canopy, are visible in the full size image!
http://www.connorphotography.net/orthographic/delmarloop.html