I love this song by Leaf Bird. I went to high school with Tyler and Lola at the Chicago Academy for the Arts. It’s easy to spend more than a few hours looping their MySpace playlist.
They’ve got a record coming out soon. You can keep your eye out for shows and the record release by visiting their MySpace or Facebook page.
Really beautiful work!
Vivian Maier is a street photographer from the 1950s – 1970s. Her work was discovered at an auction in Chicago where she lived for 50 years. Her discovered work includes between 30-40,000 medium format negatives of which many have been scanned and posted to the fascinating daily page that bears her name. A wonderful way to lose an hour or two…
By some uncertain stroke of luck I was able to visit the Cook County Law Library with my camera in hand. This morning’s visit is proof again that smiling and saying “please” can get you anything you want. I was told by the first batch of guardsmen that I spoke to that cameras were officiously forbidden. Perseverence prevailed.
Nearly every image turned out well—you couldn’t make a bad composition with all those wonderful lines and the plentiful natural light!
The building, built by none other than Mies van der Rohe is an impressive specimen of mid twentieth-century modernism. I have criticized the building in the past for its anti-humanist qualities, but today I changed my mind.
I rode the El down into the Loop at the crack of dawn this morning in order to arrive in time to make use of the rising sun. It was a very productive several hours—having found a handful of elevated vantage points from which to scour the city with my camera. The photos are mainly for a website currently in development, though I was having perhaps too much fun to think of it as work.
It’s called the magic hour for a reason.