The realization hit me like a freight train about 6 months ago. I was still working at Manning Productions, my former employer, and we had just wrapped an edit for a client of ours. It was a video project, full HD 1080 30p in all its glory, yet we had not picked up a camera, [...]
Categories: Blogging Photographer, Life
Tagged: passive income, stock photography, stock video
HyBrid Architecture
The average home in the U.S. is around 2400 square feet. I will take mine in 160 square foot increments scattered around the world…
Hmm that gives me 15 unique locations… this could be fun!
Categories: Architecture, Life, The Green House
Tagged: getaway, Real Estate, recycle, reuse, shipping container, tiny home, vacation home
As it turns out my personal distaste for granite and maple, the “staples” for any kitchen renovation over the last couple years could turn out to be beneficial in more ways than one. I made the decision to break the mold, by choosing Corian for our counter-tops, and white doors from Ikea for the cabinets, [...]
Categories: Chicago, Life, The Green House
Tagged: corian, countertop, granite, kitchen, modern, radioactivity, radon, Real Estate
SAVE MONEY! SAVE ENERGY! WIN BIG! Home Depot is sponsoring a video contest via Youtube, asking users to create a short video about how they are saving money by making energy efficient improvements to their house.
The grand prize is a $5000 Home Depot gift certificate, which we could certainly put to good use around here. Lauren and I are [...]
Categories: Chicago, Life, The Green House
Tagged: energy efficiency, Home Depot, home improvement, save money, video contest
The period at the end means this will happen, this is final, I will stick to my guns, I will do it… maybe. Life is full of information, and in this day and age, that information is bombarding us at an ever expanding rate, from every conceivable direction. We naively think that technology [...]
Tagged: deconstructing purpose
I went today with my girlfriends father to a Champ Car Race at Road America in Wisconsin. It was quite an experience. I have never been to a road race before… but they are everything they promised to be, loud, fast, and loud.
It was a pretty uneventful race, a mixup in [...]
I drove around for about 3 hours today. I started in the Far west and much abused Humbodlt Park Area… Heading east I drove through the Up and coming Hip new Wicker Park and then North through Logan Square. Drove through the ghetto, drove past million dollar loft apartments, drove past boarded up churches, children [...]
Categories: Chicago, Life, The Green House
Tagged: Real Estate