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Oh those Columbia College students, always so artsy. It sounds like i'm making fun, but trust me, I'm not. I love this pac-man building. I assume this is a dorm/apartment building? It's on State just at Polk.
Another Columbia College/south loop/art association - Francesca and I saw some amazing photographs by Michael Wolf at the Columbia photography museum when we met up a little while ago. (sadly, the exhibition is now over.) There were a ton of photographs that Wolf had taken around Chicago of buildings like this one, and you could look at these things on a number of levels. On one hand, the side of the building always made a really interesting geometric texture. On the other hand, you could kind of look at it on the micro-level and see what people were up to in a number of different windows in each photograph. It was strangely voyeuristic. We saw someone's TV playing the Simpsons in one shot.
Anyway, the side of this building really reminded me of those. But it also made me wish I could be a few stories up in the air so I could get a shot of the building straight on, without the looking up angle. Interesting, nonetheless, and a new way to think about things.
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Oh those Columbia College students, always so artsy. It sounds like i'm making fun, but trust me, I'm not. I love this pac-man building. I assume this is a dorm/apartment building? It's on State just at Polk.
Another Columbia College/south loop/art association - Francesca and I saw some amazing photographs by Michael Wolf at the Columbia photography museum when we met up a little while ago. (sadly, the exhibition is now over.) There were a ton of photographs that Wolf had taken around Chicago of buildings like this one, and you could look at these things on a number of levels. On one hand, the side of the building always made a really interesting geometric texture. On the other hand, you could kind of look at it on the micro-level and see what people were up to in a number of different windows in each photograph. It was strangely voyeuristic. We saw someone's TV playing the Simpsons in one shot.
Anyway, the side of this building really reminded me of those. But it also made me wish I could be a few stories up in the air so I could get a shot of the building straight on, without the looking up angle. Interesting, nonetheless, and a new way to think about things.