Tag Archives: Fiserv Forum

Some Fiserv Forum photos (under construction and beyond) from my daily commute

Posted on July 14, 2021 by Katherine Wikoff

In honor of the Milwaukee Bucks game tonight at Fiserv Forum, I thought I’d do a post with some photos of the arena that I’ve taken taken over the past several years. My drive to work at Milwaukee School of … Continue reading →

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“Mod Geometric Flower” (and the end of my pandemic lifestyle)

Posted on July 13, 2021 by Katherine Wikoff

Just a quick roundup of my life lately here in Milwaukee. Topics for today: a parking lot photo my car troubles the Milwaukee Bucks and clean streets ending my pandemic lifestyle So first, the photo. I’m calling this “Mod Geometric … Continue reading →

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Daylight savings (robbing Peter to pay Paul)

Posted on November 7, 2019 by Katherine Wikoff

These first evenings after daylight savings time ends are always disorienting. When you’re used to leaving work under an orange, twilight sky, the abrupt shift to stepping out into darkness is too jarring to make sense of. For example, my … Continue reading →

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PA ST

Posted on September 23, 2019 by Katherine Wikoff

Abandoned for years, the old Pabst Brewing complex on the west end of downtown Milwaukee was redeveloped over the past decade by the Zilber Property Group. The area contains many of the brewery’s original buildings, with their signature crenallated rooftop … Continue reading →

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Branding a Neighborhood

Posted on September 10, 2019 by Katherine Wikoff

Milwaukee takes its neighborhoods very seriously, to the point of giving them official names (sometimes using the historic default, other times inventing new ones derived from some random but logical connection), drawing up official boundaries, and making up a logo … Continue reading →

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Fiserv Forum Skywalk

Posted on August 15, 2019 by Katherine Wikoff

Taken with my iPhone while sitting on Juneau, facing west, at the 6th Street stoplight. I really enjoy seeing this building from different perspectives, at different times of day, and in different seasons. Always something new.

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Fiserv Forum roofline, south side, late afternoon

Posted on July 18, 2019 by Katherine Wikoff

So many photos of this building are just waiting to be taken. There’s one image I’d like to capture along the north side looking west, but I don’t think my equipment is good enough to get it 😦

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A nice midweek break

Posted on May 9, 2019 by Katherine Wikoff

Last night after work I met my friend, Karen, for dinner on the East Side (which is how we Milwaukeeans refer to the area bounded by the lake on the east, the river on the west, Capitol Drive on the … Continue reading →

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Do you recognize this font?

Posted on April 23, 2019 by Katherine Wikoff

Driving home from work yesterday, I got stopped at the traffic light at Sixth and Juneau. Looked to my left and immediately started puzzling over the font above the Johnson Controls Entrance. Anyone know what it is?

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CypherCon 4.0, the Milwaukee River dyed green, and three homes of the Milwaukee Bucks

Posted on April 12, 2019 by Katherine Wikoff

Taught my morning class today and then walked over to the convention center (maybe 20 minutes away) to attend CypherCon, billed as “Wisconsin’s Hacker Conference” mostly centered on network security but also containing bigger-picture sessions on societal implications of data … Continue reading →

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