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educate my mind

Hello and welcome to today’s feature Using AI to Explain a Simple Concept with A Lot of Words.

Today’s Simple Concept is a building elevation, which is (according to Google’s AI Overview) a two-dimensional, scaled, orthographic projection showing a vertical view of a structure’s exterior or interior face (usually north, south, east, and west). It illustrates crucial details like building height, materials, rooflines, window placements, and doors, providing a flat, straight-on view to aid in construction and design visualization.

Or, you could also call it a “side view” or “the side” or even “a wall” if you’re less inclined toward verbosity.

Saint Charles Borromeo Church
Grand Coteau, Louisiana
photographed 10.22.2017

message obscured by the medium

Well, as this sign clearly states, “something something something Love something something.” I feel that’s a message we can all support.

And as a lesson to all would-be quote-painters, maybe corrugated metal isn’t the most legible surface to choose.

Church Point, Louisiana
photographed 10.22.2017

no loitering, but anyway, here’s a chair

They could NOT be more serious: no loitering is permitted. None. Not at all. Never. Don’t even THINK about it.

But, oh, here’s a chair, just in case…

Grand Coteau, Louisiana
photographed 10.22.2017

right

Low, dark, serious clouds outside gave the inside of this church a particular glow that I liked very much.

St. Charles Borromeo was known for revolutionizing Catholic education, including the establishment of what became Sunday School. Additionally, he’s the patron saint of obesity, dieting, and stomach ailments. (That might come in handy if you encounter some boudin noir, which I mentioned a couple of days ago.)

St. Charles Borromeo Church
Grand Coteau, Louisiana

photographed 10.22.2017

frozen treats

It rained that day; as we drove we’d move in and out of the storm but it was either raining, about to rain, or just ending. It was the kind of rain that seemed to have been falling forever and would keep falling until the end of time. For someone an arid area, that stood out to me. For people in Port Barre, Louisiana, it was just a Sunday.

The clouds were catching up to us again, so we stopped only long enough to get a photo of this ice cream cone…

Bonus: maybe you know that I’ve been working on a series of monoprints from my ongoing Route 66 project; sometimes, just for fun, I do one that’s not Route 66. Like this one:

Port Barre, Louisiana
photographed 10.22.2017