NATO 2012 Chicago

A belated post.

Overheard:

"I'm just gonna attack a cop and get arrested!" - a youth
"Did you bring your gun?" "Nah." - two suburbanesque officers of the law
"What is NATO again? National..?" - a woman perusing the protesting crowd
"I am so disappointed that your generation can't do better..." - a man who has likely lived in Haight-Ashbury since the late 1960's

Some photos:

Basement Finds: Photo Slides of Lithuania, Venice, and Berlin 1970-1990.

A few years ago I found a few boxes of slides in my grandmother's basement. From what I gathered, my father (the curly-haired one, as you'll see) likely took the photos during his somewhat younger days in Venice, East Berlin only a year before the fall of the wall, and Soviet Lithuania.

I plugged an old soviet slide projector into a socket one small spark away from total catastrophe and went through every one. Unfortunately, I had no time to get the slides scanned, so I did what was logically the next best thing:

 I stuck a white pillowcase to the wall with safety pins, projected the slides onto it, and took photos with my camera. Some turned out reasonably well. Here they are.