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...each is visibly constructed. It is fitting that Kellner “builds” his works by photographing piece by piece. Unlike photographs that depend on chance to capture a moment, Kellner’s work depends on his initial concept and precise execution. He has a geometric eye that is calibrated for repetition, depth, and strong angles. He may share this sensibility with architects, but his photos take established buildings into another realm of playful imagery. As Kellner shifts the world of momuments by using photographs like tiles, it becomes re-arrangeable and malleable. But despite the imaginative...
...device that pedestrians could carry in order to exact the most possible inconvenience to other people and threaten the most sensitive parts of the human body, it’s likely that the end result would look much like an umbrella. With its deadly metal spikes spreading around at eye-level from an enormously cumbersome circumference, the umbrella is perfectly designed for destruction. Part ninja shuriken, part medieval buckler, and part retiarius’s net, the umbrella is a deadly tool in the hands of the sidewalk bumbler...
...sign of the tragedy of the commons. The good of the public realm has been subsumed under the convenience of the individual, and personal expedience has been allowed to trump the interests of the commonwealth. Vision obscured by the opaque nylon, the umbrella user becomes a lumbering cyclone of eye-gouging points. The Journal of the American Medical Association in 1978 published a paper on “orbitofacial wounds” caused by umbrella tips, warning that these injuries often go “unrecognized” and stressing “immediate neurologic and radiologic evaluations...
...utopian post-umbrella world, we will all pleasantly stroll Cambridge’s newly uncongested sidewalks, keeping our eye sockets intact and smiling with benevolence at our fellow pedestria...
...Texas legislature, but there's no need to exaggerate. From 1939 to 1960, there was one - but he was gone after a single term. When the young Hillary Rodham and Bill Clinton labored here, the Texas G.O.P. had grown to an asterisk. A person needed a sharp eye to see that the cracks in the Democratic monolith would topple it within a generation. The reasons could fill a book. And the fact that it started with Texans' abandoning the old "solid South" to vote for a gray warhorse, Dwight Eisenhower, should boost the spirits of John McCain. But as Hillary...