Riots

[Tin Can]

Vivian Maier (1926 - 2009) was an American street photographer who lived in Chicago in the 1960s and took over 150,000 photographs of the city's people and architecture. Her work was only discovered after her death when it was purchased at auction in Chicago in 2007.

No I did not meet her

except in her pictures

I was close to her during the 1968 Chicago Riots

2 years later, week after Kent State, my college was closed after riots

We were told to go home. I stayed

and now, right now, I am very sad

[Jody_S]

Without getting political or even hinting at sides, it's been a very distressing 2 years for those of us who are personally bothered by pointless war and suffering. Some very rude person said to me a few months ago, "Why don't you do something instead of just whining!", and I replied that if I knew how to end this, I would be all over that instead of sitting here safe at home in front of my 'puter.

[Tin Can]

I have been reading a lot of audio history,

way more than I ever learned in 12 grade schools

I try to not wear OUT my eyesight, right eye nearly gone

the computer often is just blurred, seeing nothing, words gone into....

I love paper books and read with the dog way before dawn for quiet time

my takeaway includes our destruction

every civilization that we know of has crumbled and failed

I act as seer

This is my last year

[Drew Wiley]

I had quite a view from my 3rd story lab window of bloody riots in the late 60's and early 70's, and even heard Molotov cocktails go off every other day it seems. But I did a pretty good job avoiding the commotion personally. I didn't live anywhere near the campus, but in the country, and would devote many of my "commute" hours in between roaming the intervening hills and streams with my camera in complete solitude, or hunting fossils and doing geological mapping as part of my study. I never was attracted to noisy journalistic style photography, though I can appreciate its importance if honestly done.