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Grand Rapids And Beyond
This weekend I accompanied my wife Natalie to the Midwest Archives Conference (MAC) in Grand Rapids, MI. Despite having a close friend graduate from the Kendall College of Art and Design and often visiting nearby Kalamazoo, I’ve never spent more than a few hours in “The Furniture City.”
We stayed in the historic Pantlind wing of the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel. I felt a bit like Royal Tenenbaum, working out of our hotel room in my slippers while Natalie attended various lectures and workshops.
Left: Any excuse to break out our trusty Barbour umbrella. Right: A view from the Grand River Promenade skyway.While many of the MAC topics were too industry-specific for me to feel like I was missing out, I wish I had sat in on the discussion of the New York Public Library’s Stereogranimator, an online tool that allows users to create animated GIFs and 3D Anaglyphs out of the library’s collection of over 40,000 stereographs, like those seen below.
After hours, we had the opportunity to explore a bit of the city. We hit the taproom at Founders Brewing Company and enjoyed a great meal at nearby Reserve. We were impressed to find that Reserve actually employs a “forager” to search out ingredients for their recipes, like the wild ginger used in their apple pie. And by forage, they don’t mean head to the local farmer’s market—this person literally walks into the woods and walks out with various edible botanicals.
We ended the weekend with a trip west to Holland, MI, where we made a stop at another microbrewery. But we weren’t at New Holland Brewing Co. for their beer, rather to pick up a bottle of their Knickerbocker gin on the recommendation of one of Natalie’s colleagues. From there it was off to spend an evening at our family’s lake house, because no trip to the west side of the state is complete without seeing some water.
Left: Public kinetic sculpture in Holland, MI. Right: A view of Reynolds Lake. -
Lone - Crystal Caverns 1991
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I captured this image while on my way out of DTW this morning. The black dots are actually tiny window appliqués (I’m assuming to reduce glare), but here they provide an unexpected retro halftone feel.
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Clark - Iradelphic (album preview)
Last week saw the release of Clark’s Iradelphic on Warp Records, the latest from one of my favorite artists on one of my favorite electronic music labels. While I’m still feeling out the new effort, it’s safe to say none of Iradelphic’s many solid tracks will unseat the cut below from 2006’s Body Riddle. ‘Herzog’ isn’t a song, it’s an aural journey. And if that sounds snobby, clearly you just need a better pair of headphones.
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My wife just finished The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997. I gave her this little guy to celebrate.
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