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Post Christmas visit to The Walnut Room - Marshall Fields Department Store in Chicago. 4-shot Vertical Panorama
Happy Monday.
Many thanks for stopping by. We went to downtown's Macy, Chicago to have breakfast with the Easter bunny.
The world famous Walnut Room has been a Chicago tradition since 1907. Located on the 7th floor of Macy's on State Street the Walnut Room is the first restaurant ever opened in a department store. With Circassian wood paneling imported from Russia and Austrian chandeliers, the 17,000 square foot dining room is both elegant and comfortable.
The world famous Walnut Room has been a Chicago tradition since 1907. Located on the 7th floor of Macy's on State Street the Walnut Room is the first restaurant ever opened in a department store. With Circassian wood paneling imported from Russia and Austrian chandeliers, the 17,000 square foot dining room is both elegant and comfortable.
Lunch at The Walnut Room at Macy's downtown Chicago (macysrestaurants.com/walnut-room/) - Left to right: me, Vivian, Julie, and Sandy. After lunch we took a lot of pictures in the restaurant lobby.
The 2020 Great Tree at the State St. store looks very different this year.
For years, the tree has been displayed in the middle of the Walnut Room's dining room while holiday shoppers enjoy the buffet.
This year, the tables and the crowds are gone. Pot pies are available to go.
This year's tree might be my favorite - it's distinctly Chicago (something the State Street store hasn't seen in a long time) with the iconic Chicago buildings and L train at the base!
The 2020 Great Tree at the State St. store looks very different this year.
For years, the tree has been displayed in the middle of the Walnut Room's dining room while holiday shoppers enjoy the buffet.
This year, the tables and the crowds are gone. Pot pies are available to go.
Lunch at The Walnut Room at Macy's downtown Chicago (macysrestaurants.com/walnut-room/) - Left to right: me, Julie, Vivian, and Sandy.
Lunch at The Walnut Room at Macy's downtown Chicago (macysrestaurants.com/walnut-room/) - Vivian loves to take pictures; and she was so nice to help me with my necklace. My aging fingers aren't as flexible as they used to be. I need to get larger clasps for my necklaces, maybe some of those magnetic ones.
A Chicago tradition, The Walnut Room is located on the 7th floor of the State Street Marshal Field's building.
Lunch at The Walnut Room at Macy's downtown Chicago (macysrestaurants.com/walnut-room/) - After lunch we took a lot of pictures in the restaurant lobby.
Mini Midi 2010 Shanghai
Mini Midi was created in 2005 as the experimental stage of the MIDI Music Festival in Beijing’s Haidian Park.
The fourth Mini Midi festival took place on May 1-3, 2008, at Beijing’s Drive-In Theater, with the theme “Noise Is Free.” The program included discussions, outdoor and indoor discussions, sonic games, special electronic music and DJ performances, film screenings, massages, and fried cakes. Participants hailed from the UK, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, Korea, as well as Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China. With sound artists crowding the stage and over one thousand participants, the event was a sound carnival.
Mini Midi is not only a music festival; it is a sound action gathering, a sonic amusement, a daydream. Mini Midi is a living organism, listening to every person it meets, and making sound together.
This event is a part of MIDI Festival
Curated and organized by Sub Jam (www.subjam.org) (www.minimidi.cn)
Organizer: Beijing Midi Productions (www.midimidi.cn)
Local organizing: Junyuan
Support: Yang Ge and Caotang (www.douban.com/group/caotang/)
Support: Art World magazine (www.yishushijie.com), O Art Center (www.oartcenter.com)
Program
May 1st:
Pm 8; Caotang (Dongjing Street 31, Zhujiajiao, Shanghai; TEL: 15221361365); ticket 50rmb (80 for two days)
Mafeisan, Walnut Room, Ben Houge, Anthony Carcone (from ETC)，Jacques Foschia (from ETC), Juanyuan (from MTDM)
May 2nd:
Pm 8; Caotang (Dongjing Street 31, Zhujiajiao, Shanghai; TEL: 15221361365); ticket 50rmb (80 for two days)
Yan Jun, Justin Sebastian, DFF (from ETC), Feng Hao, Li Zenghui + Junky (from Torturing Nurse)
May 3rd:
Pm 5-pm7, pm 8- pm 12; MAO (building 32, Huaihai Xilu 570, Changning, Shanghai; TEL：021-5258 9999), ticket 80rmb
Fakemistress + *LLND, Walnut Room + Tao Yi (from MTDM), Ben Houge + Justin Sebastian，Junyuan + Anthony Carcone (from ETC) + Jacques Foschia (from ETC), Xu Cheng (from Torturing Nurse) + Shu Qi, Yan Jun + DFF (from ETC), Mai Xiao Guo Da Shi (+Junyuan + Yan Jun), Junky (from Torturing Nurse) + Mafeisan, Li Jianhong solo
May 4th:
pm7:00; O Art Center (Art World magazine, Panyu Lu 888, Shanghai); ticket 50rmb
Feng Hao, Li Zenghui, Mafeisan, Yan Jun, Junyuan (from MTEM), Mai Xiao Guo Da Shi, Disfigurement Activities Room (Shu Qi + Menthae), Junky (from Torturing Nurse)
artist list
Artists from Beijing: Feng Hao, Mafeisan, Li Zenghui, Walnut Room (Feng Hao + Li Zenghui), Yan Jun
Artists from Shanghai: Junyuan, Torturing Nurse, Shu Qi, Mai Xiao Guo Da Shi, Ben Houge (US), LLND (FR), Justin Sebastian (DE)
Artist from Hangzhou: Li Jianghong
Artists from abroad: Fakemistress (DE)，Anthony Carcone (UK) and Jacques Foschia (BE) and DFF (US) from ETC
Feng Hao
Feng Hao is a Beijing based experimental music artists, also known as DJ Strausss that are his aliases used in his various projects and creative styles including noise,experimental music,sound collage, performance& video art ect.He is also a member of experimental band Walnut Room and N4A. In 2007, he release main album named Sound. His collage work Pleasure been selected in 1994-2004 China Avant-Guard Music by UBUWEB. Single Track ParaREM been selected in VA:2 by BrainWave Communication Records.He performed in exprimental music concert series Waterland Kwanyin , Art Beijing2006, Get It Louder 2007 (Beijing), MINI MIDI Festival (2006, 2007), Sally Can't Dance Festival (2008, 2009) ect.
Work:
2007 release main album 'Sound'.
2007 Ten Joint Array
2007 single track'Pleasure' in VA album'1997-2007 China Comportory Expermental Music',UBUWEB
2007 'Ring Society',Sound&Performance
Website:
Mafeisan
China, In early 2005, appears a NOJIJI tribal representative band.
Excluded all the qualitative appreciation of thinking and customary manufacturing methods; refused to compromise the truth of groups; lonely and ugly and foul licentiousness Color; otherwise not allowed to watch;
Their site can give people the central nervous speed signal transduction, inhibit anxiety, promote the secretion of adrenaline and gas field caused by intense re-thinking. They will gather thought directed at the solution, restructuring, and in an instant release, and from the gas field to show tremendous energy.
www.douban.com/artist/mafeisan/
Li Zenghui
Li Zenghui Male, born in Qingdao in 1983, relocated in Beijing in 2007. He is the most promising star in China’s free music/avant-jazz realm.Saxophone player, poet, voice experimenter.He had found indie/experimental rock band “the Tipsy Verse” in 2001. Afterwards he held a concurrent post as the keyboard player in “Pipedream Princess”. found “Walnut Room” with Feng Hao in 2007.
Walnut Room
Feng Hao and Li Zenghui.
www.myspace.cn/walnutroomchina
www.douban.com/group/WalnutRoom/
Yan Jun
Yan Jun, working on realm of sound and language.
Yan was born in Lanzhou in 1973, now based in Beijing. B.A. of Chinese Literature.
He works with feedback noise, drone sound, voice, field recording, site-specific sound installation, impro music, environmental sound, writing, publishing and curating. He regard them as one thing.
Yan has founded the Sub Jam and its sub-label KwanYin Records. He runs weekly enevt Waterland Kwanyin and annual festival Mini Midi since 2005.
He has published 5 essay collections about Chinese new music and 3 poetry collections.
Music Projects:
Tie Guan Yin: open form, varied members.
Pisces Iscariots: with Yao Dajuin and Li Jianhong.
FEN (Fareast Network): with Otomo Yoshihide, Ryu Hankil, Yuen Cheewai.
Junyuan
Jun-Y Ciao: born in Shanghai.2006 graduate the study at the academy of fine arts Duesseldorf, Germany. The member of the free music group MTDM.2009 make the acoustic-electronic project “Power Wood Quality” with Olaf Hochherz.
MTDM, it means “horse without legs” literally in Chinese. The band was founded in 2005 in Duesseldorf, Germany by 2 young artists, who commit themselves to the freedom of music and a pure spontaneous music. Similar to the Fluxus predecessors’ exploration into the cross-border arts, the practice of MTDM can be considered a tribute to the pioneers.MTDM seems to be synonymous with “good-for-nothing”. In almost all of the Western films, if the legs break, the horse will be killed by cowboys with no exception. The 2 members, Jun-Yuan and Yi Tao, both were born in the year of horse (in 1978). “Horse without legs”, the self-mocking name, implies exactly the profound thinking of the 2 artists on how to walk without legs.
www.douban.com/artist/powerwoodquality/
Torturing Nurse
analogue harshnoise/pure noise group from shanghai, china!
myspace.com/torturingnurseforever
douban.com/artist/torturingnurse
Shu Qi aka Shu Ride
Analog Noise & instrumental Improvization
www.noishanghai.org/shuride/index.htm
Mai Xiao Guo Da Shi
Guitat improviser from Shanghai.
Ben Houge
Ben Houge is a composer and sound artist whose attention is focused on finding connections. His areas of activity range from computer game soundtracks to sacred choral music, and he is energized by the way in which these disparate trajectories inform and invigorate each other. Much of his work employs computers to make decisions and generate sound, and he has incorporated ideas from his experience in digital media into compositions for live performance.
Ben moved to Shanghai, China, in 2004, to accept a job as senior audio designer with the French videogame company Ubisoft, a position he held for over four years. Since his arrival, he's presented his music at the Zendai Museum of Modern Art, the 2pi Festival, the Shanghai eArts Festival, and Noishanghai, alongside local musicians including Torturing Nurse and Wang Changcun. He's also transplanted the Sound Currents concert series from Seattle to present visiting artists from the US. His work has been profiled in local publications, and he served as a contributing music editor to That's Shanghai from January 2007 through September 2008.
*LLND
*LL wave constructor, circuit bender, instruments creator, programmer and *ND, anima-videiconist stage artist director.
Installations, performances, live act, VJ, their creations are like a round trip between the direct and the fictional virtual documentary
a controlled Digital Automation.
A thundering mix called Live Act Kinotoys.
Each of their performance offers a pass for traveling to multiple geostrategico-sensory destinations in a poetic network universe of immersive sounds and visuals.
*LLND's live art is a unique show where all the images and sound are created live.
using a set up of micros, cameras , objects, realtime 3d software, and a multichannels broadcast video mixer.
Justin Sebastian
Justin Sebastian hat Jazz an der Folkwang-Hochschule in Essen studiert und während seines dreijährigen Aufenthaltes in Bangkok von 2000 bis 2003 Unterricht in traditioneller thailändischer Musik genommen.
Im Alter von 13 Jahren war er bereits festes Mitglied des Peter Kowald Ort Ensembles.
Er hat als freier Theatermusiker am Schauspielhaus in Köln gearbeitet und ist seit 2007 Mitglied im WIO (Wuppertaler Improvisations Orchester). Justin Sebastian hat in zahlreichen Musik- und Tanzprojekten mit Künstlern wie: Peter Kowald, Nusara Mai-ngarm, Christoph Iacono, DJ Orson, I-Fen Lin, Sebastian Gramss, Adam Holzman, Geraldo Si, Jean Sasportes u.v.a. gearbeitet
Justin Sebastian studied jazz-trumpet at Folkwanghochschule in Essen. Between 2000 and 2003 he gained experience in Thai traditional music in Bangkok. At the age of 13 he was a member in Peter Kowald`s “OrtEnsemble”.
He has also worked at the “Schauspielhaus Cologne” as part of the music ensemble. Throughout his career he has worked independently with artists such as Nusara Mai-ngarm, Peter Kowald, Geraldo Si, DJ Orson, Sebastian Gramss, Christoph Iacono, Adam Holzman, Jean Sasportes.
Currently Justin Sebastian is a member of the “WIO” (Wuppertal Improvisers Orchestra) and is active in smaller formations and as a soloist in Germany.
Li Jianhong
With his guitar and effect pedals, Li Jianhong is one of the best noise / improv musicians in China. His guitar drifts among improvisational music, noise music, and psychedelic rock. Recently, he is trying a new way to create from the relationships between environment and performing.
The groups he formed or participates includes D!O!D!O!D! and VagusNerve. By now, he has released over 20 solo albums and collaborations in several labels including 2pi Records, PSF, Utech, Post-concrete, Archive and so on.
While being an artist, he is also managing a indie lable "2pi Records", which held an annually experimental and avant-garde music festival "2pi festival" since 2003.
www.douban.com/artist/lijianhong/
Fakemistress
voice, beats, sounds, slogans, words, noise, screams, cut-ups, melody- fake mistress is performing with voice, loop station and sampler, creating vivid images and atmospheres, exploring the limits of beauty and disharmony....what an explosive relationship!
Anthony Carcone and Jacques Foschia and DFF from ETC
ETC is a one night improvised collective, or an individual group of kindred post musical spirits
Description: improvised, sound/visual art, metal vibes, atmosphere, experimental ambient,sample ritual-like drone, post minimalism, low frequency voice...
From an Audio/Visual Art Performance:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUm8-DzoRJs
Anthony Carcone - disturbed guitar and sounds disruptions
Jacques Foschia - radio waves and fog
DFF - sheet metal
Marshall Fields Dept. Store opened the Walnut Room, in 1907. It was made for women to relax and dine while shopping. Many women use to pack a lunch because in the early 1900's most restaurants were for men only.
The 2020 Great Tree at the State St. store looks very different this year.
For years, the tree has been displayed in the middle of the Walnut Room's dining room while holiday shoppers enjoy the buffet.
This year, the tables and the crowds are gone. Pot pies are available to go.
Documentary photo taken at Aqua Night, a fashion event hosted by the Walnut Room in Philadelphia, June 2011.
My focus was on capturing the models "wearing" their hairstyles--which required some creative lighting tactics to get the most out of the Walnut Room.
Left: Model is Whitney Star (MM#1117984).
Right: Model is Jordana Jagdeo. (MM#1198372)
My grandmother Warren took me over many years for lunch in this Walnut Room to see the Christmas tree. I usually had a hot dog or peanut butter and jelly sandwich to her despair. I should go back for fancier food now that I'm a grownup.
An annual tradition, the Walnut Room at the State Street Marshall Field Building towers over the dining tables on the seventh floor.
4 photos stitched vertically.
File name: 06_10_014165a
Title: Walnut Room, "Within fifteen minutes from the heart of New Orleans"
Created/Published: Stanwillis, New Orleans
Date issued: 1930 - 1945 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 print (postcard) : linen texture, color ; 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.
Genre: Postcards
Subject: Restaurants
Notes: Title from item.
Collection: The Tichnor Brothers Collection
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions
Excerpt from my blog: www.ajaxallpurpose.blogspot.com/
www.facebook.com/christian.montone/
FROM THE BOOK "BORING POSTCARDS USA"
The famous three storey Christmas Tree at Marshall Field's Walnut Room on State Street in Chicago, IL. Now a Macy's store.
3 images stitched together
Documentary photo taken at Aqua Night, a fashion event hosted by the Walnut Room in Philadelphia, June 2011.
My focus was on capturing the models "wearing" their hairstyles--which required some creative lighting tactics to get the most out of the Walnut Room.
Model is Beka Jayne Arthur. (Facebook)