November 15ths (It's A Rodeo)

11/15/2004

Once jazz became suffused in urban environments, it became elite and intellectual. It's now hard to deny that the intelligentsia is part of the fabric of America as a rodeo.
 

[This shifts the focus away from music as an "inside" element to an "outside element. I prefer the inside but it's interesting that you could operate creatively on a spectrum between inside and outside. But I'm wary because people tend to like the outside because it's easy to suss without effort or deep thinking or reflection].

11/15/2016

"Ray", not because I know this stranger, but his face was aglow with the reflected light of a skyscraper on LaSalle Street. During the late fall and early winter, the angle of the sun is such that it reflects off of windows and becomes a kind of heliostat. I always wondered why cities didn't take advantage of this daylighting of dark city canyons.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11/15/2019, Friday

"Sheeleresque" (a la Charles Sheeler)

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