Gonna be working on a portrait of Grandpa Oscar. Playing around with some art apps to get some ideas. I am having way too much fun with this.
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Portraits of Grandpa
I’ve been plastering my apartment with art, mostly movie posters
Sadly, these numbers keep being revised up. How many have to be shot in Chicago before society says enough?
When will Chicagoans demand better?
First, it was 40. Then it was 54. Then came 66, followed by 74. And finally, The Chicago Tribune landed on 75.
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I’ve been looking through old movie posters. Never heard of this one. Quite the lineup.
I wonder if it’s any good.
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Well, at least the British press is going strong
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Two imposing landmarks greeted my great grandparents upon their arrival in America
Lady Liberty & the Brooklyn Bridge
This is a chromolithograph copy of a painting by Andrew W. Melrose of New York Harbor and the Brooklyn Bridge originally printed by Raphael Tuck & Sons in 1887, the same year my great grandparents arrived at the immigration depot known as Castle Garden from Germany.
One of the iconic images of New York City that greeted my great grandparents upon their arrival was the Brooklyn Bridge, designed by a fellow countryman named Johann Röbling. The bridge is pictured in the distance.
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I’ve become obsessed with understanding the land of many of my ancestors
What is GERMANY?
Who are the GERMANS?
How do I & my forebears fit into its TRAGIC HISTORY?
I picked up this book yesterday and began reading it. Pretty good so far, but I am only about thirty pages into it. There are many reviews online of the book, from The Guardian to The Washington Post.
ajh
Now this…. this is funny. I love good humor.
Sadly, “Anton” is no longer on the Twitter.
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Oops! Looks like I may be in some trouble.
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Dude, you can never have too much cheese 🧀
A 1.39 billion-pound stockpile! Tallied up by the Agriculture Department, the USDA, last week. Oh, how I love cheese.
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