Listening to music nowadays is more about just hearing something. The only time people can focus on music is when they travel. We have access to too many things. It’s impossible to choose.
In Unreal Estate, Austin-based serigraph artist Tim Doyle re-imagines familiar locales from popular culture in a series of hand-printed screenprints and original art.
I don’t think I’ve come to grips with how dreary an existence in Springfield truly must be.
One of the best animations of the year, and it’s an iPad app to boot! I’m truly blown away by Moonbot and the talent they’ve brought to a new platform — can’t wait to see what they come up with next.
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore (by Moonbot Studios)
My recent obsession. The Uptown theater.
One of the largest theater spaces in all of Chicago, this gorgeous landmark on the city’s northside has sat neglected and boarded up the for last 30 years. Photos of the interior have made my urbex sense tingle, but the last photos taken within are from 4 years ago.
As theaters across Chicago have been renovated (most notably the Patio in my home-neighborhood of Portage Park), there is renewed hope that The Uptown can get the restoration is deserves. From the sounds of it, Mayor Emanuel has made it a pet project of his, though the estimated ~40 million required to open the doors has scared many an investor away.
But how can you say no to a place that has been billed “an acre of seats in a magic city” and was — wait for it — the shooting location for Duncan’s Toy Chest of Home Alone 2 fame?
I’m hoping this place can come back in my lifetime, and if not, that I can somehow get the good graces of the Friends of the Uptown theater, befriend the caretaker and spend the day taking photos in this gorgeous place.
Read more about the Uptown on the AV Club.
Photos from Flickr and UNDERCITY/a fantastic urbex portal.
+ one more, a stellar photoset that sparked this whole obsession.
If Hyde Park were a brand, this is totally what it would look like. The Chicago Neighborhoods Project came up with this awesome idea (and more, for many other Chicago neighborhoods!)
Damn. This is really cool. The whole set of these is pretty fantastic. LOOK AT THEM.
I redrew the original three starting Pokemon to better fit with the Pikachu I doodled earlier this month.
The most adorable thing ever. I was a Pokemon Blue kid, so naturally Squirtle was always my starter. Once, when I felt adventurous I got a Bulbasaur …
Woah. Lets all get bags and purses that look like they’ve come out of Scribblenauts!
(via Cheese! | JumpFromPaper™)
President Obama hugging Gabrielle Giffords
Ok, the sniffles are coming back. This gif is going to get played whenever I feel down.
