Added 1 new A* page:Continuing on from yesterday with scans of prints of digital work I did way back in the sepia-toned days of my college senior project, here I am still in flower and self-portrait mode, but with a bit more emphasis on shadow and mood:
That second one is all extra-low-res because it was a small part of a larger composition, but the rest of it was pretty blah so we'll just stick with this detail. Oh and that first one was some flowers posing in a corner of my sophomore-through-senior-years dorm room on the second floor of Broadview Hall in Chicago's Hyde Park; in the Google Street View it's the one sort of centered there, with the half-open shade just to the left of the two with the fancy moulding around them above the front doors. I worked at the front desk (like one hour a night while the real receptionists were on break) to uh not really make a dent in tuition. Ooh and if you turn the Street View to the left you can see the well-known Museum of Science and Industry down the street, one of the more impressive things left over from the 1893 World's Fair held down there on the Midway (I dug up and posted some contemporary photos of the Fair in action a while ago, back here). And as it turned out, a great-aunt and uncle of mine (he was a retired big-time radiologist at the U of C Hospitals) lived in the building right next door (to the left in the Street View); they gave me an old Zenith TV I watched Bulls games on back when they had like Jordan and stuff, and my great-aunt made a mean Watergate salad. So now you know everything!
Oh and also Broadview used to be like a swanky hotel or something; hm I thought I found when it was built the other day but now I can't, dang. Probably the '20s or something, I dunno/forget. Here's a nifty old postcard from 1949 showing the swanky lobby it had at that time; it wasn't quite that opulent when I was there, but they did have a Samurai Shodown II arcade machine in the ballroom under my dorm room, so that was nice. I was awful at it and anyway didn't have cash to spend on a few seconds of getting digitally samurai-sliced, but I watched its demo mode a lot. :P
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