a recent history in image sequence » In Memoriam http://www.deanosaur.com the life and times of dean santarinala Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:50:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Found Photos http://www.deanosaur.com/2010/01/28/found-photos/ http://www.deanosaur.com/2010/01/28/found-photos/#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:12:24 +0000 Dean http://www.deanosaur.com/?p=4074 It is really unusual for me to look at photos of my paternal family from a completely different era in time. I found these locked in a chest that had been sitting in my closet at home for years, using a hammer to smash the lock open because we had forgotten the combination. I was curious because I had no idea what was inside. After I opened it, I found a wealth of family home movies and an old photo album. Unfortunately I don’t have a VHS, Super8, or miniDV VCR to check those videos out yet. Rest assured, “Ian and Queen of All Saints Basketball Game 1993,” “Sheila and Girlscouts go to the Zoo,” and “Dindo’s 1st Birthday Party” may go on YouTube in the near future. Anyway, the photo album was a delight to look through for the first time. There are many more that I might upload later, but these were my favorite.

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It has been a while since I last saw a photo of my grandfather, Vicente Santarinala. A little more than 7 years ago this month he passed away. Requiescat In Pace.

]]> http://www.deanosaur.com/2010/01/28/found-photos/feed/ 2 September 11, 2009 http://www.deanosaur.com/2009/09/25/september-11-2009/ http://www.deanosaur.com/2009/09/25/september-11-2009/#comments Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:43:20 +0000 Dean http://www.deanosaur.com/?p=3196 I got up early on September 11th to shoot the University of Illinois Black Chorus perform at 7:46am (the time at which the first airplane struck the World Trade Center 8 years ago). It was a very inspiring performance and was really a great way to start out my day.

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PS. Since we ran the whole “My September 11th story” in the newspaper, I figured I’d share mine as well: In 2001, I was a wee 14-year-old going into my 2nd day of high school. A naive freshman as I was, I had already forgot my new locker combination that I learned the day before. So, I reluctantly walked over to the security desk so I could have them unlock it and grab my books. While I was following a security guard around, I heard a few tidbits about something happening in New York over the radio, but I was pretty much in the dark for most of the morning. As the day went on, I picked up on little pieces of information here and there, and it wasn’t until one of my last classes of the day that I learned the towers fell and saw glimpses of what happened.  And even then, it wasn’t until I got home in the afternoon and was glued to the television for hours with my family (my parents had been sent home from work)… that I truly understood the gravity of September 11, 2001.

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