I'm going to take the occasion of my 38th birthday (as it's just passed midnight and is now officially the 15th) to write the following disclaimer:
Looking back over the last week or so I realized one of the problems with waiting a few days to post a series of backlogged photos - sometimes I post them out of order. The fact that I put July 1 after July 2 in no way indicates that the space/time continuum was altered for a week during the summer of 2005, but is, rather, indicative of the fact that I can be, on occasion, disorganized, scattered, lazy, and that I’m bad with numbers.
Friday, July 15, 2005
Thursday, July 14, 2005
7.13.05 Great-Great Grandparents
Ok, I didn’t actually take this picture. But this blog is a record of (mostly) digital photographs, and digital photography can be about more than just convenience.
These are my mother’s great-grandparents. The photo she gave me was decades old, filthy, and…oh yeah – torn in half. With my relatively cheap (and under-powered computer and inferior software versions) I was able to splice it back together, clean up the largest scars and return it to the B&W glory it was created in.
And I printed it all on my $99.00 Canon Mp360. (4 by 6 and 8 by 10.)
A picture that would have soon been lost (it’s literally crumbling) is now stored on my hard-drive and in cyberspace, ready to be printed at anytime, for generations to come.
7.12.05 Egg Drop Soup with Howard Zinn
Taken at Y2K Chinese and Sushi on Diversey.
I've been reading a lot of non-fiction lately and I'm working on Howard Zinn's Declarations of Independence. I didn't care much for politics (and all that it entails) until the election of 2000 (shortly after turning 33.)
I still read a lot of fiction, but now I feel can't read enough about everything from history to policy to ideology...and I have a lot of catching up to do. I recently finished David Brock's Blinded by the Right.
My currently waiting list includes Chomsky's Power and Terror and 9-11, the Clinton biography First in His Class and his memoir My Life, Stephanopoulos’ All Too Human, and Atlas Shrugged.
7.11.05 Stolen From Eng. 55
I'd noticed recently that firehouses had been opening their hydrants and letting water pour into buckets and eventually over into the nearest gutter. I was thinking, "What a waste of water." Then I was told it was for passing dogs, and I thought, "What a great use of water." It’s been a warm summer and dogs need drinking fountains too. It's like a doggy powder room...they can sniff for other dogs, take a piss, get some water and wash their paws all at the same one-stop location.
7.10.05 Sunday in the Park
This summer has been hot and humid (the driest since the 1930's), and in Chicago that means hazy. Chicagoans are used to extremes in weather, and there's no way we're staying indoors in July (we'll be inside plenty from October through May).
This is a more "traditional" shot: skyline, leafy green trees, the aesthetically pleasing zigzag of boaters, reflection on the lagoon and ducks in neat, symmetrical rows. And it fits the 20-year rule.
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