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THE ADDENDUM is an occasional blog about cities, culture, books, writing, photography, and painting. Here is where I post my thoughts and reflections, updates about projects I am working on, and other original content.The blog takes its name from small publications that were inserted into books with corrections, additions, and expansions, allowing a book to be updated without reprinting; THE ADDENDUM serves much the same function for this site.
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The Addendum | Transportation news you can actually use
Michael Andersen recently quit his day job as a newspaper reporter to start a mini newsmagazine for the Portland area’s “bus, bike, and low-car” population. Transportation politics — especially bike and transit politics — can be fascinating stuff, especially to … Continue reading
Posted in Cities, Culture, Land Use & Transportation
Tagged Civics, Journalism, Portland, Transit
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The Addendum | Food as culture, not food
The VooDoo Donut Bacon Maple Bar. Gourmet? No. Unique? No. Portland? Yes. Among my many interests are food and culture, and as a result I often follow blogs and online discussion forums with culinary themes, sites like Good Stuff Northwest, … Continue reading
The Addendum | The Role of Loss
Checking For Obstructions. Portland, OR, March 2010. Kodak TMY. This week, a friend picked up a copy of David Plowden’s retrospective, Vanishing Point, a book I once wrote a Russian-novel length review of here. I’ve come to be a great … Continue reading
The Addendum | Social Media World = Pre Gutenberg?
Via the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University, Professor Thomas Pettit describes the decentralized media world of Social Media to be a world that is largely like the pre-Gutenberg era. Petit describes the matter in a video on Vimeo: Thomas … Continue reading
The Addendum | On the failure of a typology
Portion of NW 5th Avenue, Portland Over the last few years, I’ve been working through a significant shift in my photography, and as a result I’ve been experimenting with a number of new techniques and ideas. One of those has … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Photography
Tagged Architecture, Chinatowns, New Typographics, Pop Art, Portland, Typologies
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The Addendum | Urbanity and intimacy
North Interstate Avenue, Portland, OR, February 2010. Kodak TMY. The sweeping view, the grand vista, the bird’s-eye perspective. These are all classic ways of shooting the city, of trying to capture the greatness on a metropolitan scale. Such perspectives have … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Land Use & Transportation, Photography
Tagged Architecture, History, Landscapes, Portland
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The Addendum | Ramen, soul of a city?
Anticipation is always deceiving, and nothing is ever as one imagines it. Vancouver, B.C. is both more and less than my mind had envisioned. It is less a futurist’s city, but far more human. This is especially true about the … Continue reading
The Addendum | Overeating in Richmond, B.C.
Storefronts in Richmond have all sorts of interesting things to see. Recently, I visited the Vancouver, B.C. area. Among a number of goals, I had one that stood out: to sample the legendarily good Chinese food available in the suburb … Continue reading
The Addendum | Photojournalism and respect
At the Lansdowne SkyTrain station in Richmond, B.C. Sometimes I think that one of the main reasons I feel I am not particularly skilled as a photo journalist is that I’m just not enough of an a-hole for the job. … Continue reading
The Addendum | The Future of Beaverton?
The Future of Beaverton?, originally uploaded by route99west. I’ve rather provocatively titled this image “the future of Beaverton” with my tongue only partly in cheek. There are many ways that the pairing of Richmond/Vancouver does not hold as an analogy … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Land Use & Transportation, Writing
Tagged Food, Travel, Vancouver
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