Wednesday, October 29, 2008

the good, the bad, the ugly


I don't know how you feel about politics, It's a bizarre bidness. Why would anyone want to be involved?
McCain, Obama--certifiable?
What a web we weave.
But I will say, I am mighty proud of my local government. The City of Charlottesville has posted their Council minutes on the Internet.
It is all on view, from 1953 to the present.
A resource for historians.

Doing business in the sunshine.

AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED "AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE ZONING ORDINANCE OF
CHARLOTTESVILLE BEING CHAPTER 33 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE ADOPTED AND APPROVED MAY 2, 1949, AND AS SUBSEQUENTLY AMENDED; ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE DIVIDING THE CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE into DISTRICTS TO REGULATE AND RESTRICT THE LOCATION, ERECTION, CONSTRUCTION, RECONSTRUCTION, REPAIR OR USE OF BUILDINGS AND OTHER STRUCTURES, THEIR HEIGHT, AREA AND BULK, AND THE PERCENTAGE OF LOT TO BE OCCUPIED BY BUILDINGS OR OTHER STRUCTURES, THE SIZE OF YARDS, COURTS AND OTHER OPEN SPACES, THE USE OF BUILDINGS OR PREMISES FOR TRADE, INDUSTRY, RESIDENCE OR OTHER SPECIFIC USES; AND TO ESTABLISH SET BACK BUILDING LINES; TO PROVIDE FOR A METHOD OF AMENDMENT, SUPPLEMENT, CHANGE AND REPEAL OF REGULATIONS, RESTRICTIONS AND BOUNDARIES; TO PROVIDE A METHOD OF ADMINISTRATION; TO PROVIDE FOR A BOARD OF APPEALS AND PRESCRIBE ITS POWERS AND DUTIES; TO PROVIDE FOR THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE PROVISIONS OF THIS ORDINANCE AND TO PRESCRIBE PENALTIES FOR THE
VIOLATION THEREOF WHICH WAS OFFERED AT THE MEETING OF THE COUNCIL ON DECEMBER 16, 1957, WAS ADOPTED AS AMENDED BY THE FOLLOWING RECORDED VOTE: AYES: MR. COLEMAN, MR. DAVIS, MR. MICHIE AND MR. SCRIBNER NOES: NONE. (MR. WEINBERG ABSENT AT THIS TIME.) February 17, 1958

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Friday, October 24, 2008

let them eat crack


Walked from Brooklyn Heights to the Central Park Zoo without seeing a single Obama sign, very odd.

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Thursday, October 23, 2008

Jehovah


Walking on Furman Street. After 30 years of having Witnesses show up on my door, it is a strange reversal to be at their house. Alas, no one runs out to carrying a Bible. Jimi doesn't sing, no men in suits.

"No reason to get excited," the thief, he kindly spoke,
"There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.
But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate,
So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late."- B. Dylan


Went to the Metropolitan. Tried to find Dave Beckerman to buy a license, photographing on his territory.

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Wednesday, October 22, 2008

heating up in Virginia


morning sun supplies heat of fusion, frost changes state to water vapor, Obama does victory dance in the Old Dominion...

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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Julian's first presidential election


presidential politics is serious

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Wednesday, October 15, 2008

white animal


The perfect house gift for a Manhattanite, didelphis virginiana.

Opossums help maintain a clean and healthy environment. They eat all types of insects including cockroaches, crickets, beetles, etc. They catch and eat rats and mice. They consume dead animals of all types. They like overripe fruit, berries and grapes that have fallen to the ground and they think that snails and slugs are a delicacy. They are one of the few animals that regularly prey on shrews and moles. They are known as "Nature's Little Sanitation Engineers!"--pleasebekind.com

The Virginia Opossum is the original animal named "opossum". The word comes from Algonquian 'wapathemwa' meaning "white animal", not Greek or Latin, so the plural is opossums. Colloquially, the Virginia Opossum is frequently called simply possum. The name is applied more generally to any of the other marsupials of the Didelphimorphia and Paucituberculata orders, which includes a number of opossum species in South America.--Wikipedia

River Possum

Road Possum

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Friday, October 03, 2008

Transpiration


London is on a river, Paris is on a river, Charlottesville is on a river

If we were to hold our local waterways in higher regard, what would that look like? In the fall of 2007 architect W.G. Clark held a design studio at UVA that worked on this question.

The Rivanna River forms the eastern boundary of Charlottesville, and Free Bridge is the city's primary eastern entrance. As a major natural feature so important to the founding and history of the city the river is nevertheless curiously invisible. This project seeks to create a place that will encourage use of the river and provide a better understanding of its natural and cultural importance.--WGC

"Transpiration", an exhibit of student work from the University of Virginia School of Architecture, will be shown at the Charlottesville Community Design Center during the month of October. Projects engage both landscape and building, and are located along the streams, rivers, and water infrastructure of Charlottesville. This show hopes to reveal the potential of design and representation to transform public perception of the city's hydrological network.

The exhibit features work by Graduate and Undergraduate Students at the University of Virginia School of Architecture Studios: Lucia Phinney, Jeana Ripple, Nancy Takahashi, W.G. Clark, and Robin Dripps. Independent: Zoe Edgecomb, Katherine Pabody.

"Transpiration" opens Friday, October 3 at 6:00 p.m., and runs through the month of October.
The exhibit is located at the Charlottesville Community Design Center 100 5th St. NE Charlottesville, VA 22902. That is on the north east end of Charlottesville's downtown pedestrian mall.

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