MayDay

"What do you think about Bob Evans restaurants? Do you think it's just a place where old people eat? Or just for breakfast?" I've eaten there once. It *was* a place where old people ate, and for breakfast. If you don't eat there, why? Is the atmosphere just too uncool? Dislike the food? Dislike chains? I disliked the food - there wasn't much that seemed fresh/healthy, and the point of "country" food is that the ingredients are fresh - not frozen, trucked for hundreds of miles and then reheated. I ordered what I usually do for breakfast when I'm out - sausage biscuits and gravy and it couldn't begin to compare to what I grew up with in rinky-dink places in Columbiana County. For what it's worth, I also avoid places like Perkins, IHOP, for that reason alone. Back to Bob Evans - the atmosphere was bumpkin-ish - the gingham patterns, craftsy decor, is pretty much the opposite of what I care for. Even though there isn't a Bob Evans near my home, I doubt I'd patronize it if one were built in the area. I also go out of my way to support locally-owned places. "How often do you go out to eat?" Every day for lunch (usually a locally-owned takeout place for wraps, Indian, sushi, Vietnamese) during the week, once on the weekends for lunch (sit-down), and one to two times a week at a sit-down place for dinner.

^The second floor conference room that overlooks Public Square? Yep, that's pretty sweet.

I've emailed Great Lakes Brewing about their lack of public transportation options on their site as well. They said they'd try to add them in the near future.

^Possibly for the KeyBank service center relocation from the May Co. building?

This looks like it was an interesting event... But ummm... :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: I know a lot of us hate to hear how Clevelanders "just don't get it". However, when one of the premiere sustainability groups consistently holds events but fails to list nearby public transportation options - but ALWAYS lists the closest parking options... :roll:

And with that, let's get back on topic :-)

A good summary here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guernica_(painting)

"You go to art museums, you see busts of emporers where the sculptor made subtle points about them through the expressions on their faces." Riiiight: Not that "The Politician" is in the same ranks as one of the most politically charged works of art in history, but just because something isn't "subtle" doesn't make it any less valid.

^Oh pshaw! I'm sure the illustrious folks at ODOT have EVERYthing under control!! :lol:

Florida Guy - seriously, thank you for the perspective. I think there's a happy balance and I wouldn't mind Cleveland being closer to the middle, but that's just eerie.

^You never know, we just kicked the arses of a certain Superbowl champ team, didn't we? :-D

Did your professors use a jewelers' lupe to make sure those corners were perfect 90-degree angles? Yeah *that's* what I had to put up with! I was a foreman of the night shift at the paper; nothing like having to treat people with second-degree burns from the waxing machine or minor lacerations from some dimwit walking around with their X-acto in hand!! :x Honestly the timing couldn't have been better - everyone on the staff (editorial and production) were responsible for taking that beast of a paper into pagination - that alone was enough to make more than one prospective employer channel Joey Lawrence "whoa!?!".

Don't get me wrong, things don't happen as quickly (or sometimes as grandiose) as I'd like but if you think it's quiet now - it was awful back then. Those of you who remember my "one new pane of glass in Pinnacle!!" pics can attest to that!

"who can i complain to" Your elected officials - they're the ones who have put Ohio in the lowest ranks for transit funding. Yelling at RTA is preaching to the choir.

I work adjacent to the Crowne Plaza hotel and there were lots of people milling about in the lobby and checking in - mostly Browns fans but also some Giants. I use the Marriott as a cut-through and the same situation there.

^In all seriousness, I was fortunate that I worked for the Daily Kent Stater. Sure, it's a campus paper but it's published 4x weekly, and has a circulation of about 15K. Working there gave me the opportunity to design ads for Target, Papa Johns, and quite a few corporate places that gave me more "street cred" than the pieces from my "academic" portfolio. Also, I did some production work for the campus magazine and I can't say enough how that experience benefitted me later. Most of my classmates had no idea how to work a photo-stat camera, or how to correct photos (in Photoshop 3) so they print properly. "Ugh some people have it so easy." I say this because I wish someone had said it to me when I was your age. Yes, those people have it easy - *now*, and yeah some may never actually understand what it's like to have to genuinely work for a living. That girl's parents won't be around forever, and if she has any sense, she'll try to establish herself before becoming dependent on someone else to pay the bills. People like that never know what it's like to be able to say with humble confidence "I'm where I am today because I wanted it, I worked my @ss off and I earned it". I know that sounds cheesey as all h#ll, but when you're able to look back and say that it was YOU who got you to where you are, there's a world of difference. When you're used to doing things on your own, you begin to realize that you are much better equipped to deal with any kind of sh!t that comes your way than anyone who has had their privileged life handed to them.

To quote MTS, all y'all just HUSH! :-) Some of us remember (all too well) the years after the Federal Courthouse Tower was built - we had a drought from 2002 to 2005. Besides, you're getting weekly-ish updates of Flats East Bank (but honestly, it's in the site prep stage which is like watching paint dry), Avenue District is well underway, 668 Euclid's getting rehabbed, we have a tower crane over in University Circle (granted for a "meh" building design), the art museum is plugging along, the Healthline will be up and running, the Terminal Tower is slowly but surely getting fixed up, a few spots along Euclid and East 4th have or are close-ish to opening, CSU's student center and education building are getting ready for liftoff.. and then there's the neighborhood residential stuff that's managed to keep going (Battery Park, etc.). yeesh, if you think it's quiet NOW? Nuh-uh!

^I did notice that most of the buildings in the Tower City complex (Terminal, Landmark, Skylight towers) had all their lights on. And fyi, Terminal Tower was lit up orange, not pink (mince, mince - it's the graphic designer in me).

Sorry - should have said "archival or stock footage".

Folks, just remember that most of the time - televised sports events use archival or stock images.

^I was accepted to Pratt and a few other schools in that caliber but even with financial aid and scholarships, there's NO fricking way I could have managed the $20K+ tuition/R&B annually (this was back in 1990). Even if I had, the monthly payments on that kind of debt could easily swamp someone in my industry who is just starting out. A friend ended up going and graduated and unlike the trust-funders in her class who wanted a job to appease the parents, she needed to work in order to live. She lost out on a job because a trust-funder flat out told the employer "I'll take the job for $10 an hour less than what you're offering". Once she landed a gig, she was one of a few who had any sort of work ethic and eventually relocated to Portland, Oregon to escape that mentality. I'm sure everyones' experience is different but hers is one that makes me appreciate my more humble beginnings.

Margaret Bourke-White, not just for her photography but her groundbreaking accomplishments and willingness to push her limits to get the image. Info from NPR: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1175402 Margaret Bourke-White was one of the most famous photojournalists of the 20th century. A Bourke-White picture made the cover of the very first issue of Life magazine. She was one of four staff photographers on the first masthead, the only woman on staff, and invented the photo essay for the magazine. NPR's Susan Stamberg reports on an exhibition at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., that focuses on Bourke-White's earliest works, before Life. "Margaret Bourke-White hung out of bombers to take pictures, climbed out on a gargoyle high atop the Chrysler Building to take pictures, was the first Western photographer to go to the Soviet Union, covered the dangerous days of India's partition," Stamberg says. Biographer Vicki Goldberg says Bourke-White was fearless from the beginning. When Bourke-White went into Cleveland's steel mills in the 1920s, she would get so close to the pouring metal that her face would turn sunburn-red and her camera finish would blister, Goldberg says. The Phillips Collection show -- Margaret Bourke-White, The Photography of Design, 1927-1936 -- is a salute, in 140 black-and-white images, to the might of American industry. She began as a commercial photographer, documenting the achievements of corporations. Curator Stephen Bennett Phillips says Bourke-White's work reflected the importance of industry to the capitalist society of America. As Stamberg reports, "Margaret Bourke-White was in love with the shapes of industrial design -- the mechanical muscle and sheen of it. She took extreme close-ups of the inner workings of production." In one example, 1930's Industrial Cable, Bourke-White zeros in on a "beautiful fabric" of metal wires woven like braids of gold yarn, Phillips says. He says the major achievement of her early photographs was that she was able to show the moguls of industry the hidden beauty in the worlds they dominated. ..........

Simsbury Place Condos to be sold at sheriff's auction Wednesday, October 8, 2008 By CANDY BROOKS ThisWeek Staff Writer Simsbury Place Condominiums, the first Worthington condo complex to be built in decades when it was constructed two years ago, will be sold at sheriff's sale Friday. The completed, 16-unit building at 805 Proprietors Road and the land next door have been appraised at $2.37-million, according to the Franklin County Sheriff's Web site. The upscale condos were built to suit Worthington empty-nesters, co-owner D.J. Falcoski told ThisWeek when he unveiled the model unit in August 2007. The units ranged in size from 1,065 square feet to 1,783 square feet. Prices ranged from $224,000 to $424,000. In August 2007, Falcoski said that ten of the units were under contract. The building appears to be unoccupied. The second building was to match the first, with 16 more units. A gravel lot remains on that site. The land was formerly a parking lot for Worthington Foods, which was once located across the street. The Worthington Station office condominium complex with a dozen separate buildings has been approved for the former Worthington Foods site. Three of those buildings are completed. MORE: http://www.thisweeknews.com/live/content/worthington/stories/2008/10/08/1009wocondos_ln.html

Can't say that I do, but if you (or anyone from Zaremba) can use my photos to help get something done, by all means go right ahead! :-)

Time to resurrect this thread - this week's @sshat Award goes to the folks in charge of the former warehouse north of the Avenue District townhomes. They demolished about half of the structure in order to (correct me if I'm wrong) create a parking lot. Instead, this mountain range of rubble has sat untouched for waaaaaay too long - seriously - WTflyingF? See the Subaru? That gives you an idea of how high the rubble piles are: