Month: January 2016

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Bob Bruhin

Snow on the Reading Viaduct
Philadelphia, PA
Copyright © 2014, Bob Bruhin. All rights reserved.
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Panorama 2190_blended_fused_pregamma_1_fattal_alpha_1_beta_0.9_saturation_1_noiseredux_0_fftsolver_1 | Flickr – Photo Sharing!

Bob Bruhin

1201-1299 Nectarine St
Philadelphia, PA
Copyright © 2013, Bob Bruhin. All rights reserved.
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Bob Bruhin

Panorama 1916
Esslinger Brewing Company
10th and Callowhill Streets
Philadelphia, PA
Copyright © 2012, Bob Bruhin. All rights reserved.
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Mural Lofts a Great Addition to North Broad Street | Naked Philly

Bob Bruhin

Ridiculous light masts aside, the last few years have been very very good to North Broad Street. We’ve actually lost count of the number of buildings that have been repurposed as apartments, adding new residents and a vibrancy that had been missing here for decades. The lastest addition to the mix is Mural Lofts, a project from EB Realty which converted the former Thaddeus Stevens School of Practice into 59 apartments at Broad & Spring Garden. The name of the project comes from the awesome mural on the building’s western wall, a mural you’ve probably noticed at some point when passing by on Broad Street.Current view of the buildingThe mural, a few years backAs you can see, the building’s architecture is wonderful, and we’re fortunate that the developers were able to reuse the structure, built in 1926. Though the building was used more recently as an administration building, it retained many original details inside. Some of those features have been integrated into the apartments units.

Source: Mural Lofts a Great Addition to North Broad Street | Naked Philly

David Lynch’s Eraserhead (1977) and Silent Film

Bob Bruhin

In a lot of ways, Lynch’s first feature film is a silent film. It’s almost a full 11 minutes before anyone speaks at all (“Are you Henry?” asks the Beautiful Girl Across the Hall). There’s only brief, intermittent dialogue thereafter, amounting to only a few minute’s worth. Jack Nance (the film’s lead, and a Lynch regular until his death in 1996) remarked in an interview that it was “a little script.” He continued: “It was only a few pages with this weird imagery and not much dialogue and this baby kind of thing.” He wasn’t being hyperbolic. The entire transcript of the dialogue takes up surprisingly little space (have a look). It’s easy to imagine the dialogue being presented silent film-style, on intertitle cards, without it changing very much about the film at all. You could even remove the spoken words entirely and still have something quite special (I’d argue the same with the title cards for F. W. Murnau’s Sunrise).

Source: David Lynch’s Eraserhead (1977) and Silent Film