One of the best looking classic churches in the city. Can you say blue blood?
Fourth Presbyterian Church on Michigan Avenue
One of the best looking classic churches in the city. Can you say blue blood?
Images
Chicago Sky at Dusk
Just another shot of the Chicago skyline. Nothing special here.
Just another shot of the Chicago skyline. Nothing special here.
One of 10,000 views from the John Hancock Building
Wanted to get an image of my apartment before moving out. Mine is the one with a swimming pool. At 48 stories it’s about half as high as the John Hancock, yet looks tiny from this view. Looking down is one of my favorite camera angles. I don’t often look at my world that way. Taken in September of 2012.
Wanted to get an image of my apartment before moving out. Mine is the one with a swimming pool. At 48 stories it’s about half as high as the John Hancock, yet looks tiny from this view. Looking down is one of my favorite camera angles. I don’t often look at my world that way. Taken in September of 2012.
Marina City Chicago
Copied verbatim from A View on Cities (dot com) Marina City is a complex of two 60-story towers built in 1964 by Bertrand GoldBerg, a student of Mies van der Rohe. It is a lively complex of apartments, recreation facilities, offices, restaurants, banks, a theater and 18 stories of parking space. The complex even boasts a dock at the Chicago River underneath the towers.
The experimental complex was financed by unions who feared that the outflow of people from the cities in the early sixties would lead to a decrease in jobs. Marina city would give an alternative to the villages and small towns, offering everything in a small area.
Copied verbatim from A View on Cities (dot com) Marina City is a complex of two 60-story towers built in 1964 by Bertrand GoldBerg, a student of Mies van der Rohe. It is a lively complex of apartments, recreation facilities, offices, restaurants, banks, a theater and 18 stories of parking space. The complex even boasts a dock at the Chicago River underneath the towers.
The experimental complex was financed by unions who feared that the outflow of people from the cities in the early sixties would lead to a decrease in jobs. Marina city would give an alternative to the villages and small towns, offering everything in a small area.
Try profiling this guy
Phil is the first friend I met in Chicago outside the Wal-Greens on State and Walton. Phil runs on the compulsive side. He’s something of an expert on Chicago and Lake Michigan history. The guy loves to read and loves to drink Dr. Pepper. This was a photo taken in late August, 2012. At 50 years of age, I guess it’s obvious he takes care of himself. Phil is a life-long Chicago area native, but has not been home in almost two decades. I don’t ask why. Homeless is not a word that truly depicts his situation although in the strictly literal sense, he is that. For the past 17 years, Phil has never slept anywhere but in the Chicago outdoors. That includes brutally cold weather, blizzards and hot summer August nights. Lots of layers with Phil. He has let it be known he wouldn’t take kindly to someone bothering me. Our friendship seems unlikely, but that goes away quickly so long as you are ready to drop your urge to try and help him in some way. He just doesn’t need or want it. Or at least that’s what he says.
Phil is the first friend I met in Chicago outside the Wal-Greens on State and Walton. Phil runs on the compulsive side. He’s something of an expert on Chicago and Lake Michigan history. The guy loves to read and loves to drink Dr. Pepper. This was a photo taken in late August, 2012. At 50 years of age, I guess it’s obvious he takes care of himself. Phil is a life-long Chicago area native, but has not been home in almost two decades. I don’t ask why. Homeless is not a word that truly depicts his situation although in the strictly literal sense, he is that. For the past 17 years, Phil has never slept anywhere but in the Chicago outdoors. That includes brutally cold weather, blizzards and hot summer August nights. Lots of layers with Phil. He has let it be known he wouldn’t take kindly to someone bothering me. Our friendship seems unlikely, but that goes away quickly so long as you are ready to drop your urge to try and help him in some way. He just doesn’t need or want it. Or at least that’s what he says.
Sun rise over Lake Michigan
September, 2012
September, 2012
Gritty City
It seems to me there is strong correlation between space and personal relationships in vertical life. At 30 stories, you and your neighbor are far less likely to be friends than if you lived in houses. I’ve never lived in such close proximity to so many people (there are 400 units in a 50 story condominium) and yet knew fewer people. I asked a nice guy in the building if he thought I was right. He agreed, but said there are some good reasons for it. Point 1. Houses are apart, sometimes 15 feet or sometimes a football field between whereas we share walls where we live.
It seems to me there is strong correlation between space and personal relationships in vertical life. At 30 stories, you and your neighbor are far less likely to be friends than if you lived in houses. I’ve never lived in such close proximity to so many people (there are 400 units in a 50 story condominium) and yet knew fewer people. I asked a nice guy in the building if he thought I was right. He agreed, but said there are some good reasons for it. Point 1. Houses are apart, sometimes 15 feet or sometimes a football field between whereas we share walls where we live.
Titans of Commerce
Trump Tower to the left and the Wrigley building for a next door neighbor. Your sticks of juicy fruit helped build that gem and a nice baseball field to boot. The Wrigley family recently sold the landmark to a group of investors which include the two founders of Groupon.
Trump Tower to the left and the Wrigley building for a next door neighbor. Your sticks of juicy fruit helped build that gem and a nice baseball field to boot. The Wrigley family recently sold the landmark to a group of investors which include the two founders of Groupon.
Rock, steal and glass.
Living in a vertical world stacked like a nice cord of wood.
Living in a vertical world stacked like a nice cord of wood.
How do you get here?
At what point do the intersections of homelessness and addiction cross? This man looked to be about 50. What was he like at 49, 47, 39, 26, 18 and six years old? What must it be like to wake up at the bottom of a lamp post next to a garbage can and wonder what the next move should be.
At what point do the intersections of homelessness and addiction cross? This man looked to be about 50. What was he like at 49, 47, 39, 26, 18 and six years old? What must it be like to wake up at the bottom of a lamp post next to a garbage can and wonder what the next move should be.
Ralph Braseth Dot Calm 