97/365: Walk/Don't Walk

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Well, make up your mind. Julian Opie's This Is Kiera and Julian Walking violates the Don't Walk sign 24/7. The couple are on an endless existential walk to nowhere, a stroll that has no beginning and no end. I hope the artist didn't mean this as a metaphor for the relationship.

I am desperately low on downtown images that aren't about the Arch. Might have to post a picture of the pen and pencil holder on my desk, or something similarly dire. Maybe I could use that thought as a springboard.

It's the Arch, free soda pop and public nuisance today on St. Louis Daily Photo.

96/365: Save Us, O Lord

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The graffiti-allowed section of the Mississippi River flood wall is constantly being overpainted and changing. Here's a new bit. The illustration is a little over the top (I doubt that we are a first-tier target for nuclear attack) but the image still has meaning. We have a city that's not fabulous but not a complete dump. We have a large array of civic, cultural and arts organization that keep up real vibrancy, while our governmental leaders, as a group, are short-sighted and self serving. We just keep losing corporate headquarters, our suburban and now exurban sprawl is appalling, but the city itself still has a strong beating heart. What's in the future? Salva nos, O Domine.

St. Louis Daily Photo is trying to whistle the Ode To Joy after sucking a lemon.

95/365: Just What Makes A Stove Majestic?

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The residences in the loft district of Washington and Locust Avenues are in old commercial buildings, most of which have kept their original names. So I assume this one used to make, distribute or sell stoves. A stove is a prosaic object. Even the stoves in the Palace of Versailles were work-a-day tools. So what's with calling some of them majestic? Just 19th Century marketing.

How many ways can you look at a daffodil? A few suggestions today on St. Louis Daily Photo.

94:365: Color Field

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Blocks of color on a cloudless day at the baseball stadium. Not as simple as color field painting but you get the idea. Some of that style of art can be intellectual but occasionally the high concept gets to be a bit much. I once heard Ellsworth Kelly give a talk with Richard Serra at the opening of the Pulitzer Foundation museum here. He insisted that he could tell within 1/16th of an inch (25 mm) if his commissioned painting for the museum was hung correctly. Serra laughed at him.

Spring is sprung on St. Louis Daily Photo.

93/365: Zoom Zoom

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The steps under the Arch, Old Courthouse, bland office building housing The World's Largest Coal Company and the Civil Courts Building, shot with that Big Honkin' Telephoto I'm so fond of. Zoom, zoom, zoom.

This was taken from the the Arch and downtown overlook in East St. Louis, Illinois.

Need a shower? Check St. Louis Daily Photo today.

92/365: The Red Sea

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The statue in Kiener Plaza of the runner who parts the waters has been on St. Louis Daily Photo a few times. For the opening of the Cardinals baseball season, the contents of the fountain were died red. All that color could be a slaughter or big blocks of red hard candy. The sanguine loyalty of Cardinal fans even runs through the city water pipes.

The same red radiated from the fans themselves on St. Louis Daily Photo today.

91/365: Fast Ball

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At the pre-game party in Kiener Plaza before the Cardinals home opener yesterday. This young man could have major league talent.

St. Louis Daily Photo is flying today.