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fishlessaquarium

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Artist // Hobbyist // Photography
  • United States
  • Deviant for 19 years
  • He / Him
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My Bio
As a child, I wandered off to look at things that everyone else ignored. Now I photograph them.

Favourite Visual Artist
Rauschenberg, Magritte, Hopper, Arbus, Laughlin,
Favourite Movies
Being There, Amelie, American Beauty, Maltese Falcon, Midnight Cowboy, Dr. Strangelove, The Hustler
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Elliott Smith, Wilco,Rogue Wave,Magnetic Fields,Radiohead,John Coltrane,Beatles
Favourite Writers
Walt Whitman,Nelson Algren,Kurt Vonnegut,Brautigan,Dos Passos,Murakami,N.Christopher
Favourite Games
Baseball
Favourite Gaming Platform
Wrigley Field
Tools of the Trade
my free will
Other Interests
Life
The series I've been posting is of the old Elks building in downtown Tacoma.  It has been allowed to deteriorate due to a battle between the city and its crazy California owner, who literally mooned the city council once and wanted to tear it down.  He died a couple years ago and so the impasse was broken.  Now, developers from Portland bought it and may convert it into a hotel and beer hall.  Hooray! It was built in 1916 -- a huge marble building. Next to the building are the magnificent sixty-four Spanish Steps. The Spanish Steps were designed after the Scala di Spagna of Rome and once led to the Spanish Embassy in Tacoma, which was (and s
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I will begin posting highlights from my new series on the Tacoma Elks (B.P.O.E.) building.  I'll write more about that soon.
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Lazarus

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Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.  I have a break between night school quarters for a handful of weeks and I intend to take advantage of the opportunity to freshen the site up a bit.
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Thanks for the fave on [link] , Hail Mary. ;)
Thank you for the fave and watch. Excellent gallery! Nice to meet you :handshake:
sorry you're featured [link]
I finally just discovered this. I should hang out in the old neighborhood more often.
Hi! We both love Laughlin...
I can see why. An lesser known photo of his - "Leg-a-head and his operating device" (Laughlin was great for titles!) inspired me to photograph walls. The rest is history, as they say!