Took a nice long walk on Tuesday afternoon, starting with a trek into the heart of South Beach along Collins Avenue.
One thing I love about Miami Beach is how they are so focused on preservation of the Art Deco buildings that they have, so you’ll often see at least a few under renovation at any given time. The Raleigh--Anthony Bourdain’s favorite Miami hotel--has been under renovations for a few years now, but the progress looks promising. The Delano South Beach has been closed since 2020 but is also under renovations with plans to reopen in the near future.
Had to say hello to The Gale and one of my favorite neon signs on Collins--the San Juan Hotel sign--and while making my way westward, I happened to spot this really cool Anchor Hotel sign in the parking garage attached to the Anchor Shops on 16th and Collins.
I tried to find a little more information on this building, but only the parking garage portion seems to be accessible these days and there’s very little online save for I imagine is the architect’s page dedicated to the project. From what I can gather, the Anchor Hotel was on Washington Street and had little portholes on its facade--you can see it in this photo, just look for the UHaul--and the hotel was demolished for this project but the sign was preserved.
This series of paintings is made in such a way that it accepts order only very reluctantly. The chaos of the pictorial process visible in each of the completed artworks is both real and apparent at the same time. It is real as a work and apparent as form. The dynamics, the impetuosity, and the dramatic force, all stem from this. Laying down medium-wide brushstrokes in close-valued colors of intensity and saturation, Peter Vahlefeld coalesces metallic pigments like gold and copper with all sorts of different water-based mediums, and varnishes and then contrasts these layers with thick oil paint from the tube. This play in the tension between pictorial surfaces and applied materials enables him to create simultaneously complex and straightforward layers of expressive abstractions.
June-July 1942. Washington, D.C. "Cashiers checking out customer purchases with Ration Book No. 1 at the Giant Food shopping center on Wisconsin Avenue. Giant Food Store is a self-service market chain handling all types and many varieties of food and household appliances."
Photo by Marjory Collins for the Farm Security Administration
Hotel Edison, South Beach, Miami, 2003. A sepia version.
Find this image in my Miami Gallery: http://frank-romeo.pixels.com/
"The Fine Art photography of Frank Romeo."
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by critterdee_67
Continuing the case in Newton, Iowa. Dean, Castiel, and Eileen learn more about the town and what the witch has been up to.
Words: 1920, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
Series: Part 8 of Suptober 2023 Critterdee's Collection
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: Gen, Multi
Characters: Castiel (Supernatural), Dean Winchester, Eileen Leahy
Relationships: Castiel/Dean Winchester, Eileen Leahy/Sam Winchester
Additional Tags: Suptober 2023 (Supernatural), Case Fic, Cat!Sam
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