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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 | Portland bridge lovers: Help out Zeb
Normally I use this space to talk about my own photography and writing, or sometimes about the subjects that I tend to focus on: land use and transportation, cultural geography, and industrial archaeology. Today though, I want to highlight a … Continue reading
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 | Photos on Railfan’s web site
Old United Railways mainline in Guild’s Lake. Portland, OR, April, 2010. Kodak TMY. Back from the Center for Railroad Photography and Art‘s 2010 “Conversations About Photography” conference in Chicagoland, I’ve got a few brief things to catch up on. First, … Continue reading
The Addendum | Property disassembly: 21st Century urban renewal tool?
Urban renewal, like any land-use improvement methodology, has conventions or habits. Conventions are meant to be a framework for success, a recipe that, if followed properly, will yield good results. Conventions, however, tend to become canonical and restricting after a … 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 | 10th Avenue
SW 10th Avenue, Portland, OR, September 2009. Kodak TMY. Portland really is a transportation city. It seems that we can never have enough different modes of transportation, much less use them as officially intended. We have light rail that behaves … Continue reading
Posted in Land Use & Transportation, Photography
Tagged Highways, Portland, Transit, Transportation
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The Addendum | Chairs on the Bus Mall
A brief homage to my friend Scott, who will never live down his association with chairs. From the newly refurbished TriMet Bus Mall in Portland, Oregon, September 2009.
The Addendum | Review: Oaks Park Pentimento
Oaks Park Pentimento: Portland’s Lost and Found Carousel Art Photographs by Jim Lommasson. Introduction by Inara Verzemnieks. Afterword by Prudence Roberts. Oregon State University Press, 121 The Valley Library, Corvallis, OR 97331; http://oregonstate.edu/; 12.5 x 10.5 in; hardbound; 48 pages, … Continue reading