Author: DXO
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Full Circle on an Art Show at The Cultural Center
I was going through my computer, managing all of the video I’ve collected over the last few months, and I realized that I had a pretty nifty round trip experience with the Chicago Cultural Center. A few months back, I was walking through the first floor and saw they were setting up a new show…
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The Mayor + Accountability
It has been a remarkable couple weeks here in Chicago since a judge forced the release of a video showing the murder of Laquan McDonald. I could link all day/ all night to the pressure for the resignation of Mayor Rahm Emanuel. In the news, in opinion, in the streets. I supported Rahm Emmanuel for election in both 2011…
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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: