My dear friend Ben got married last weekend and once again I failed to bring my camera. Fortunately Alexis managed to snap a photo of my brother and me way late in the night. Even Drew Little had crashed at this point.
Was on appolicious.com the other day and came across a new iPhone photo app called Hipstamatic that simulates vintage photo techniques (and well). Ever noticed those cheap Holga cameras you find in the back of a shop like Urban Outfitters – same idea. While out wandering the city I gave it a spin and was actually impressed.
A water tower I passed walking to the bus after work.
Liz's dog Maddie
Street sign on Milwaukee at about 1:30am
Emptiness in Bucktown
This camera makes Chicago look like Detroit
Streets signs outside Wicker Park late in the night
The fountain at Wicker Park
The basketball courts at Wicker Park
Dog outside a bar in the morning
Alcala's on Chicago Ave.
A huge Flak gun in a yard in Ukrainian Village (my kind of yard ornament)
The bar next to my new place in Ukrainian Village would’ve made Bukowski proud. The jukebox needs some love but pints of PBR for $1.50 is pretty much unheard in the city.
Happened to have my camera over at the Dow’s house so I snapped a few pics of the much-beloved music room.
Lucky turned twelve in mid-March and so we celebrated with some pizza and a trip to the much beloved Dave & Buster’s.
Lucky waits on pizza.
Tionne and D'Entonio racing at Dave & Buster's.
Nascar Racing: Lucky, Isaiah and Tionne
We had a small going away party for Dan who’s headed west to Denver in a matter of days. I managed to snap a few memorable pics.
Dan with his boys
Patrick and Cleaver
It was above freezing here in Chicago this weekend so I took Esley and some fellow schoolmates to the Lincoln Park Zoo. Considering we’ve been half a dozen times in the past year, I was surprised how the Zoo always seems to have something I’d overlooked.
Isaiah, Esley, Vontrell, and D'Entonio at the Lincoln Park Zoo
The Lion House at the Lincoln Park Zoo
Esley at Branko's after the Zoo
A few photos snapped while strolling from Wicker Park to Logan Square.
Andrew Bird returned to Chicago to perform a sold out series of shows (four in total) at the Fourth Presbyterian Church in downtown Chicago. The collection of performances, coined by Bird as the “Gezelligheid” shows in reference to a Dutch term meaning essentially “coziness”, were played without a traditional PA system. Instead the sound came from four “horn speakers” placed strategically on the stage. Needless to say, from the fifth row where I was seated the sound was fantastic.
Full view of the stage prior to performance
Bird played a fair number of material from the instrumental album Useless Creatures which he released in early 2009 in connection with Noble Beast, as well as some more familiar material spanning all the way back to his early stuff with Bowl of Fire. Included in the hour and a half set were “Master Sigh” (my favorite song from Useless Creatures), “You Woke Me Up!” & “The Barn Tapes” (both instrumentals from the aforementioned disc), “Scythian Empires”, “Natural Disaster”, “Fitz and the Dizzyspells”, “Headsoak”, the Handsome Family’s “Giant of Illinois, and Bob Dylan’s “Oh Sister”.
I wish I had better photos of the actual performance but photography was verboten, not to mention once he went on stage the lighting was quite dim and made sneaking a worthwhile photo nearly impossible without being obnoxious.
The best I could get. Blurry but you get the idea.
I was on a trek through the city today with the Neoteric gang and along the way I snapped some pics of the Chicago skyline on a cloudless Fall day. This photo of the Marina Towers on our way back to the office was one of my favorites.