April 2014 archives
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April 21, 2014 by Kevin
From the Archives: Fitchburg, Wisconsin
Through the years of the consulting business we compiled a lot of photos, so part of this site will be to provide a venue for pulling those out of the archives. Here is a handful of duotone photos produced for a proposal for Fitchburg, Wisconsin, taken in 2009:Archives
April 17, 2014 by Kevin
Almost home
For this week’s Throwback comes an old photo of a house in Scottsdale my family had put a deposit on, but then backed out of. It was 1979 and we were outgrowing our modest Hallcraft house, so we fixed our sights on a new subdivision a few miles north. The house had bedrooms for all of […]Archives
April 16, 2014 by Kevin
From the Archives: Napa, California
Through the years of the consulting business we compiled a lot of photos, so part of this site will be to provide a venue for pulling those out of the archives. Here is a handful of photos pulled from work on the Downtown Plan for the City of Napa, taken in 2009-2010:Archives
April 13, 2014 by Kevin
Sunday afternoon
This is how I’d like to be spending a sunny Sunday afternoon:Archives
April 12, 2014 by Kevin
Surreal Suburb: Fairmeadows in Palo Alto
In 2005 I created a small website called “Surreal Suburbs of the Bay Area.” I’d been inspired by a book I’d read by Paul Lisicky called Famous Builder in which he describes a curious, unfinished subdivision he had visited as a kid. It made me think about the intriguing subdivisions and neighborhoods I’d visited – not […]Archives
April 11, 2014 by Kevin
From the Archives: Delphi, Indiana
Through the years of the consulting business we compiled a lot of photos, so part of this site will be to provide a venue for pulling those out of the archives. Here we make a brief stop in Delphi, Indiana. We were working on a project in nearby Logansport, and we passed through Delphi a […]Archives
April 10, 2014 by Kevin
You can’t go home again… except now you can.
Going back home to check on things is easy with Google Earth at hand. In a box of old photos I came across recently there were a few photos of our old house back in Scottsdale. Based on the paint colors I’d date the photos to the late 70s or very early 80s. It was […]Archives
April 8, 2014 by Kevin
Bliss
With Microsoft pulling the plug on support for the venerable Windows XP there have been a few stories on the iconic screen image that served as the backdrop to all those XP displays the world over. NPR had a radio segment, and PC world featured a story. The photographer took the photo from Highway 12 […]Archives
April 6, 2014 by Kevin