Personal posts
Posts on architecture, obsessions, photography, poems, visits to art exhibits, essays, family, and or things about me organized under art, home, and work.
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New Camera, New Attitude
My brother and sister-in-law sent me two lenses that used to belong to her father. One is a Minolta Maxxum AF 70-210mm F/4 telephoto lens and the other is a Minolta MD Tele Rokkor 135 mm f/2.8. My plan was to buy a lens adapter that would allow me to use these lenses on my Canon…
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These are the places near the place where police killed a boy in Chicago.
The place where teenager Laquan McDonald was murdered by Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke seems desolate in the video of his death. He walks a few steps on a wide-open street with no traffic before dropping from bullets. He laid dead in front of a bus stop and a sign heralding the construction of a new Marshalls…
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Brilliant Analysis of Bus Costs at the Chicago Transit Authority Over at Curious City
WBEZ’s Curious City has an amazingly detailed take on what it takes to operate buses here in Chicago: Fare Game: When do CTA Buses Break Even. First off, they found great data that answers baseline questions of revenue and cost:
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A Remarkable Story Full of Intelligence
This story in today’s NYT amounts to a vast set of research on how works: ISIS Women and Enforcers in Syria Recount Collaboration, Anguish and Escape. Here’s nuggets:
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The Chicago Sun-Times, Today, Right Now, is a Great Newspaper, So Stop Whining About It
There’s a slow-moving, but consistently rolling, train of thought that says that the Chicago Sun-Times is dying/ is poorly run/ etc. There was a post to this effect last week, but we’ve all heard these things for years now. Expressing dismay about the Chicago Sun-Times is something of fun sport for the portion of the journalism…