Project 31

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dk — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 00:18:41 +0000

#14 from Elizabethton, TN

#23 from Portland, OR

#22 from Huntington Woods, MI

#21 from Roscoe Village, Chicago, IL

(I also got a dirty one from Australia! You know what I’m talking abut.)

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dk — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 23:36:40 +0000

#10 from Ann Arbor, MI

#27 from Logan Square, Chicago

#26 from Hastings, NE

and #19 from downtown Chicago

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dk — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 22:13:35 +0000

#24 from Albany Park, Chicago, IL

#6 from San Francisco, CA

dk — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 03:57:34 +0000

BYE

(I am still waiting on some photos, and will keep updating when they come in.)

One to stand for thirty-one

stretchingonesarms — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 03:43:35 +0000

A month of creative work.
A single post.
To each day, that day’s demands.

It’s good to be among you.

#31

roscoe — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:45:21 +0000

#30

roscoe — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:44:20 +0000

#29

roscoe — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:43:38 +0000

#28

roscoe — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:43:01 +0000

#27

roscoe — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:42:25 +0000

#26

roscoe — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:41:53 +0000

#25

roscoe — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:41:19 +0000

#24

roscoe — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:40:37 +0000

#23

roscoe — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:40:05 +0000

#22

roscoe — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:39:32 +0000

Marianna’s photo for January 31

mcholdin — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:58:32 +0000

Finally, one more scene from Marta’s library in Moscow: here she is with a photocopy machine for public use, unheard of in Soviet times. Photocopy machines were seen as serious threats to the Soviet state because information was controlled from the top, and these machines allowed who knows how many people access to who knows what. So to see a photocopy machine in public space, for public use, is a real statement of change.

dellwoodbarker — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:22:21 +0000

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dk — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 01:56:57 +0000

Number 3 from Madison, WI

Number 16 from Lincoln, NE

Number 30

dk — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 01:52:30 +0000

Number 29

dk — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 01:50:36 +0000

dellwoodbarker — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 18:14:16 +0000

Marianna’s photo for January 30

mcholdin — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 14:46:16 +0000

Moscow neighborhood public library, early 1990s. Marta, the library director, is standing by a most unusual collection: telephone books from Russian cities. In Soviet times information was guarded carefully, and telephone numbers were hard to get. Now, in post-Soviet Russia, librarians like Marta were eager to put all the information they could before their users.

Marianna’s photo for January 29

mcholdin — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 15:30:17 +0000

Before I finish the month with Russia, let me throw in one more photo from Haiti. This is a fairly typical example of Port-au-Prince housing in the 1990s. It looks like an earthquake or a hurricane hit this street, but no–this is just the way many people live, even in relatively good times….

Number 28

dk — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 02:57:58 +0000

Number 27

dk — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 02:47:58 +0000

skull #13

benmoreau — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 00:40:31 +0000

indai ink on paper, 9" x 12"

skull #12

benmoreau — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 00:39:05 +0000

india ink on paper, 12" x 9"

Regina K

rdurchslag — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:33:01 +0000

dellwoodbarker — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:30:35 +0000

Marianna’s photo for January 28

mcholdin — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 13:06:01 +0000

In 1992, soon after the collapse of the Soviet Union, I attended a session at a conference held in Moscow. You see the sign for the conference: “The KGB, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow.” At the session an audience of former dissidents, survivors of the Gulag, human rights activists, hurled angry questions and comments at former members of the KGB, the dreaded Soviet secret police. The audience was dressed in jeans and leather jackets. The panelists wore well-cut European suits. Disorienting!