My attempt to draw a skyline is at a standstill. I spliced together 10 pictures that I took while standing on the shoulder of Dakota Drive, just south of 19th avenue north. After a minute of tracing the outline of the buildings in Illustrator I realized I wasn’t going to get much of a skyline. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Fargo’
Fargo Skyline Fail
Posted: 22nd May 2012 by Alex Amiot in Adobe Illustrator, FargoTags: Fargo, Housing, Skyline
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66% Solar Eclipse Arrives in Fargo on Sunday, May 20
Posted: 17th May 2012 by Alex Amiot in Adobe IllustratorTags: Astro Bob, Eclipse, Fargo, Moon, Sun, Weather
Heads up Fargo, here comes a solar eclipse. If you’re in town (that is, anywhere west of the Appalachians) this weekend, grab your solar-filter glasses and look to the west. No one gets a total eclipse this time, not even the folks within the blue lines on the map below. The moon’s elliptical orbit has [...]
Green Grass and Gray Hair
Posted: 23rd March 2012 by Alex Amiot in Adobe IllustratorTags: Aging, Fargo, Hair, NDSU, School, Weather
As I turned to lock the door on my way to class yesterday it occurred to me that I won’t be doing this much longer. Soon I’ll be done with classes altogether. Then what? Without waiting to answer myself I headed down the stairs and out the door, stepping into a beautiful spring afternoon. The [...]
Open Letter to Fargo/Moorhead Authorities: The Way to Canada
Posted: 15th March 2012 by Alex Amiot in Adobe Illustrator, PoliticsTags: Bridges, Fargo, Hjemkomst, Moorhead, Open Letter, Politics, Water, Winnipeg
Dear Fargo/Moorhead Authorities: Please update our bridges. Cyclists, pedestrians, trains, and automobiles successfully cross the bridges connecting Fargo and Moorhead daily. But what if Moorhead’s Viking ship, the Hjemkomst (pronounced Yem-komst), escapes from its lair at the Hjemkomst Center and fancies a vacation to Winnipeg? A ship like that deserves a fair amount of autonomy, [...]
