Spreading confusion over the internet since 1994
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I took Zen and the Art of Police Barricades on October 20, 2015 at 05:07AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on April 02, 2016 at 10:37AM
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I took Of Speed And Skill And Schemes on April 20, 2014 at 01:10PM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on March 03, 2016 at 10:54AM
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I took Captain America and Spiderman on April 19, 2014 at 06:26AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on February 29, 2016 at 05:41PM
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I took Moments Jarred Loose All In Concurrent Multitude on February 20, 2016 at 09:37AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on February 24, 2016 at 06:30AM
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I took Thought It Wouldn’t Matter on February 20, 2016 at 09:55AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on February 24, 2016 at 06:27AM
(The sculpture is called Progress Lighting the Way for Commerce)
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I took You Wanted To Disappear on September 12, 2009 at 05:14AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on February 19, 2016 at 09:27AM
And for the record, not directly related to Obama’s administration, as far as I know. (Though it was a talking point of Newt Gingrich and other GOP presidential candidates in 2012)
for instance:
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I took Thanks, Obama on February 15, 2016 at 12:04PM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on February 15, 2016 at 06:04PM
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I took Your Silent Sorrows In Empty Rooms on July 04, 2011 at 03:58PM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on February 07, 2016 at 01:32PM
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I took Snowy Evening Under the El Tracks on February 01, 2011 at 06:06PM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on February 03, 2016 at 10:30AM
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I took You Cannot Truly Escape on August 11, 2011 at 04:44AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on February 02, 2016 at 01:28PM
Tour Bus Double Door
Wicker Park would seem weirdly empty without the Double Door, I hope they win their lawsuit…
Joe Shanahan, co-owner of Double Door, one of the anchor clubs during the rise of the Wicker Park music scene in the ’90s, is facing eviction. But in his first public statement on the monthslong legal battle, he vows he won’t go quietly.
“We’re not going down without a fight,” he said in an interview. “We’ve done the Rolling Stones, the Smashing Pumpkins, the Flaming Lips, Greg Dulli and so many important artists there. It supports the community. We want to stay.”
Shanahan, who also owns the Metro in Wrigleyville, has been one of the pillars of the Chicago music community for decades. He opened Double Door with partner Sean Mulroney in 1994, just as Wicker Park was gaining international recognition as a hub for the city’s emerging bands and artists, including the Pumpkins, Liz Phair, Material Issue, Eleventh Dream Day and countless others.
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The fight, which continued this week in Cook County Circuit Court, touches on whether Double Door gave the landlord proper notice that it wished to extend the lease. Schiff introduced documents that included a lease extension request letter from Double Door’s Mulroney dated April 24, more than 180 days before the lease expired, as required by the contract. Strauss’ attorney, Bonita Stone, said the landlord never received the letter and that she wanted to question Mulroney.
The Double Door attorney also contended in court papers that Strauss was operating as a partner of the club and was receiving monthly dividend checks for most of 2015. The landlord “breached his fiduciary duties” to the club, according to the Double Door complaint.
(click here to continue reading Double Door won’t go down without a fight – Chicago Tribune.)
Double Door Liquors
Urban Melodrama
And the real estate hits keep coming…
The red-hot West Loop/Fulton Market District’s hospitality scene is showing no signs of slowing down as Shapack Development is set to unveil a Morris Adjmi-designed 11-story hotel proposal at the northwest corner of Lake and Green Street. Fresh off the success of their acclaimed 40-room Soho House, the Chicago-based developer is upping the ante with a 165- to 171-room project just one block south at 832-850 W. Lake, a site currently occupied by a low-rise meat packing business and parking lot. According to a conversation with Crain’s, developer Jeff Shapack confirmed the new development will include ground floor retail and dining, parking on the second floor, office space on the third and fourth floors, and hotel rooms up to the building’s 11th level rooftop deck. The hotel operator has not been announced, but with both the nearby Ace and Nobu hotels also in the pipeline to meet the area’s surging demand for hip lodging, a boutique brand would be a good guess for Lake and Green as well.
(click here to continue reading Soho House Developer Plans Another Hotel for Fulton Market – Hotel Boom Town – Curbed Chicago.)
This location is slightly outside of the new Fulton Market Historic District boundaries, I wonder if that was planned.
Fulton Market District
City of Chicago Emergency Management Surveillance Vehicle, recording civilians when they want to.
Police who intentionally skirt civilian oversight by destroying or disabling their dashcams should be fired, plain and simple. Or at least severely reprimanded. The police need to come back to being part of society, not standing alone from it, without accountability. Serve and protect used to be the motto, but destroying evidence of police actions only serves to protect the police themselves.
Why are so many police dashcam videos silent?
Chicago Police Department officers stashed microphones in their squad car glove boxes. They pulled out batteries. Microphone antennas got busted or went missing. And sometimes, dashcam systems didn’t have any microphones at all, DNAinfo Chicago has learned.
Police officials last month blamed the absence of audio in 80 percent of dashcam videos on officer error and “intentional destruction.”
A DNAinfo Chicago review of more than 1,800 police maintenance logs sheds light on the no-sound syndrome plaguing Police Department videos — including its most notorious dashcam case.
Maintenance records of the squad car used by Jason Van Dyke, who shot and killed Laquan McDonald, and his partner, Joseph Walsh, show monthslong delays for two dashcam repairs, including a long wait to fix “intentional damage.”
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Between Sept. 1, 2014, and July 16, 2015, maintenance technicians assigned to troubleshoot and repair dashcam systems reported 90 incidents where no microphones were found in squad cars, according to police logs.
Another 13 inspections during that period turned up only one microphone in squad cars that were supposed to be equipped with two audio recording devices, according to the logs.
On 30 occasions, technicians who downloaded dashcam videos found evidence that audio recording systems either had not been activated or were “intentionally defeated” by police personnel, the records show.
(click here to continue reading Chicago Police Hid Mics, Destroyed Dashcams To Block Audio, Records Show – Archer Heights – DNAinfo.com Chicago.)
An important story, and you should read it all…
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I took Candy Is The Answer on January 26, 2016 at 08:19AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on January 26, 2016 at 02:19PM
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I took Americana Submarine with Cigars on November 29, 2015 at 06:27AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on December 31, 2015 at 12:15PM