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My alma mater. Did my undergraduate work in Biomedical Engineering there.
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Leica Summarit M 35mm f/2.4 + Fujifilm X-T20.
Gregory was in a homeless camp underneath the Kennedy Expressway, near Belmont and Kedzie. He's been out here for two years. They have a nice encampment with well-insulated tents. They heat their tents with small camping heaters. "We like to keep it neat around here". They even have a porta potty that a gentleman donated to them and services every two days. Churches and other folks come by and donate food and other supplies. Everything donated they have in a common area in the middle of the camp. Everyone I spoke with was super nice. Gregory hurt his back years ago and isn't able to work. "There are good people in the world", he said.
I thought the man was holding a roll of toilet paper (tissue) in his hand. Seattle during the Coronavirus lockdown.
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Fujinon XF 90mm f/2 + Fujifilm X-T2.
A new interview with Lorne Fuller from CBC on 11 January 2020. He will be 90 years old next week, on 16 January 2020.
"Meet the Albertan behind all those baseball caps on fence posts near Longview"
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/meet-the-albertan-behind-a...
Colleen Schmidt, CTV Calgary
Published Wednesday, September 3, 2014 3:35PM MDT
Last Updated Wednesday, September 3, 2014 3:38PM MDT
A southern Alberta farmer has collected hundreds of hats over the last 25 years and has found a unique way to recycle and display them.
Anyone who has ever driven down Highway 22 near Longview has come across the farmer’s fence that has a baseball cap perched on every post.
Lorne Fuller owns the property and is known by his neighbours for his caps and cars.
“In those days when you went to the city the businesses all would give you a cap,” said Fuller.
He didn’t want to throw them out so he started looking for something to do with the stack of caps.
“We had just got back from a trip up to the Yukon and some farmer way up in northern Alberta, he nailed caps onto the fence post so I thought, there’s a place for these blasted caps so I went downtown and got some boys off the street and we come out here and nailed up the caps and that started the caps.”
Fuller has been popping caps onto the top of the posts since the 1990s and now others are contributing to his project. “There would be a bag or a box of caps at the mailbox with a note on it, here's caps for your project good luck."
He now has an entire hat shack that is filled to the brim with ball caps.
Fuller says the caps are a novelty and that visitors often turn up in his driveway to find out the story behind the fence toppers.
“It’s fun to visit with people and I've certainly met a lot of people over this cap thing, you know,” said Fuller.
Fuller’s passion for caps has even been featured in publications from other countries.
He says one family from Holland stopped by and took photos while on vacation and later sent him a copy of a Dutch magazine that featured his famous fence.
calgary.ctvnews.ca/farm-fence-toppers-talk-of-the-town-1....
Golden birthday for a player of local travelling baseball team. Marble cake, vanilla buttercream. Hat and Jersey are cake. Golden baseball is RKT. Hat rim is gumpaste base. All decorations in fondant, baseball stitching in buttercream.
A man enjoying a glass of wine on the upstairs window ledge over looking the crowded street below.
Montreal, Quebec
Canada
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[Note: This was a conversation I had months before COVID-19. I'm not connecting with anyone during this time].
Jean was at the corner of Hubbard and Randolph by Macy's. He's been homeless for about three months and prior to that about four years. He was living in a tent city for awhile in the north part of Chicago. Now, he's staying elsewhere. He said he's been doing pretty well (making money on the street) and said weekends are the best and sometimes Mondays. Not too long ago, he had his cup stolen that had about eight dollars in it. He just shrugged his shoulders and said, "well, I guess whoever took it needed it more than I did". Quite an outlook on life, when everything you have is taken. The same thing happened on the train a few months ago. His bag was stolen that had his Link card, IDs, belongings. Now he has to go to the Fourth Presbyterian Church to get new IDs. In the short time we were there, two other homeless gentlemen engaged him, asking him how he was doing, etc. There is an obvious camaraderie among the homeless.
Jean, a homeless veteran, stayed for quite awhile and had a lot to say. He was talking about his experiences with the Shelter that he's a part of (he also helps the shelter distribute sleeping bags and blankets to the homeless. He sells umbrellas and ponchos to people when it rains. He bought a bunch of umbrellas recently and said jokingly, "and it hasn't rained since!" He had an obvious love for life and wasn't at all down or depressed. His name was "Jean". He pronounced it numerous times with a French accent, obviously very proud of his name. "It's like Jean Claude Van Damme", he said. He occasionally sells things on the corner of Michigan and Randolph. "I'll give you a discount", he said with a smile.
Photograph published on 5/07/2021 in The New Civil Rights Movement ( link below)
www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2021/05/rick-wilson-war...
Also photograph published on June 30th 2021 to illustrate the article below.
www.exposedbycmd.org/2021/06/30/republicans-trumpify-elec...
Also published on June 3rd, 2022 { link below }
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Photograph also published on 8/10/2022 { link below}
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Also published on 9/23/2022 { link below}
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Also published on September 28, 2023 { link below}
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Also published on February 20, 2024 { link below}
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"I @#$^%*& love homonyms."
('Batwoman' by DC Collectibles / DC Bombshells - Designer Series: Ant Lucia)
I met Ron on the southwest corner of Madison and Wabash. He's been homeless for five weeks. At the moment, he's staying with a friend until he gets housing, which should be in a few more weeks. He was a positive and encouraging throughout our chat. "Even if you don't win the race, you still want to be cheered on. You need the positive energy--it's not the end!" We kept talking and he said that he wanted to be a writer. "I want to write a story about my life", he said. We started walking down the street and he said, "I'm a conversationalist...you have to listen to do that."
A graffiti smile in the foreground but not from the pavement person, despite the early morning beer.
Inadvertent capture while trying to shot some street art.
The statement on this man's baseball cap illustrates better than a 10,000 words essay the symbiotic relationship between MAGA followers and Evangelical Christians. This nexus of fundamentalist faith and ideology of exclusion based on race and American exceptionalism is extremely toxic.
I noticed the "Disco Love" patch on this chap's jacket, I wonder if that's what he's grooving to on his headphones? Quick candid snap from the old, stone bridge over the Union Canal from this afternoon's stroll
Some of the few people I saw walking along Princes Street, here reflected in the dark windows of a passing coach.