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Entries associated with the tag "YouShoot":June 1st - 6:39 p.m.
Great capture of my alma mater that's a bit different from the usual gargoyle pics, by fotomattic.  May 27th - 10:36 p.m.
Thought this pic by (((christopher))) was subtly quite beautiful.  May 8th - 5:35 p.m.
Trust me, it's worth clicking through to the largest size. By find a city to live in.  May 6th - 9:54 p.m.
Photo by David Schalliol, taken for Gapers Block's coverage of the closing of the Hyde Park Co-Op.  May 5th - 8:13 p.m.
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Wow. Picture by JOE M500.  May 1st - 6:04 p.m.
Because it's Friday. Photo by katherine of chicago.  April 30th - 9:23 p.m.
I want to run this one day. Photo by find a city to live in  April 29th - 10:19 p.m.
Taken by one of my all-time favorite* Flickr contributors, katherine of chicago (see also, and). The oval windows are really the crowning touch. In comments, she writes: "I like this station because it's different, I mean the restored (or replica) old-fashioned ones are nice but I get tired of those...." One of the things I like about Chicago's middle-aged suburbs - take, for example, Harlem Ave. south of Oak Park - is the architecture; the heterogenous, slighly berserk 60s-80s development can be sort of freeing (cf. Learning from Las Vegas***).
* For any number of reasons, but entitling this photo "this was probably supposed to be cheerful"; this; "I have a weakness for vacuum-formed and first-name signs"; HOLY SHIT HOW DID I MISS THIS HOUSE** I USED TO LIVE THERE. **Errol Kirsh? Passive solar? I must investigate. ***Cool. April 28th - 6:23 p.m.
Perfect. By fotomattic.  April 27th - 7:29 p.m.
A friend of mine from the U of C, who's been in Europe researching his dissertation, told me he really liked this feature because it was a visual link back to the city, so I'm bringing it back. Really like this angle on Joliet Prison from reallyboring.  March 12th - 8:38 p.m.
As a some-days-more-reluctant-than-others emissary for online things I cannot express how much I love this picture of gargoyles past and present by stvk5.  March 10th - 6:28 p.m.
A very soulful turtle, caught by Jack Cantey.  January 22nd - 8:11 p.m.
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This capture by only-connect from the anti-prop 8 rally downtown warmed my heart.  November 24th - 6:56 p.m.
find a city to live in found this at 116th and Michigan.  November 21st - 7:16 p.m.
Photographer metroblossom writes: "The light on the horizon is Chicago."  November 19th - 7:07 p.m.
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swanksalot finds one of my favorite works of Obama-related graphics design yet, of a Pilsen palatero:  October 30th - 2:59 a.m.
The larger versions of When lost in's photo are impressive. October 29th - 10:25 a.m.
Great find by Chris Diers.  October 28th - 7:13 p.m.
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find a city to live in's title for this pic is brilliant.  October 20th - 7:25 p.m.
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Apologies for the nonexistent posting today; overtaken by events, meetings, and posting our Chicago International Film Festival guide, which you should avail yourself of. I'm most interested in 24 City ("the disastrous effects of unchecked capitalism may be the most urgent contemporary theme in movies"), Gomorrah (at least do it for Roberto Saviano, the co-screenwriter and journalist who now lives in hiding), and the gorgeous Fear(s) of the Dark. Although I think W. might take precedence. Sorry, I liked Nixon. Following up on some of my recent thoughts on the likely future president, do read Ben Dueholm's "Defining Hope Up": "to drive the machinery of a modern bureaucratic state with any decisiveness and deliberateness requires an ingenuity and opportunism (in the best sense) that no task I've ever known of calls for." Long day, not a lot to show for it, though it does turn out I have a 401(k). I hadn't realized that (I'm more interested in macroeconomics than my bank account; the former is guaranteed to exist). So it's almost like I didn't lose any money. Here's a great picture by Brian Hagy that seemed, out of the Reader pool, the most like my day.  October 14th - 6:54 p.m.
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Photo by Chris Diers, who adds: "Fully operational and in service." Update: Mike Sula comes through with the LTHForum link about Royal Chicken Restaurant.  September 30th - 7:06 p.m.
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I wanted to post this picture by Chris Diers not just because I like the colors and composition, but because I got a really good pork taco at the place on the left last weekend. The brain taco was not as good, but that was my fault for getting brains when I already know better. Rockstar Dogs I haven't been to yet and I've heard it's overpriced, but visually I like what it does to that corner.
Also, Berliner Bears from the von Steuben Parade, by Lauri Apple.
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Probably no DNC liveblogging tonight but we'll see how I feel when I get home. Here's a lovely end-of-summer pic from Chris Diers. Oh, and you should read our Web-exclusive excerpt from The Barn House: Confessions of an Urban Rehabber by Ed Zotti, longtime editor of The Straight Dope.  August 25th - 6:24 p.m.
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SFmoe has some lovely shots of the annual Air and Water Show practice runs. Brendan at the wonderful Where blog writes: "Listening to the roar of the jets flying overhead, I feel a bit on edge...I have to wonder if an event like this has some sort of subtle psychological effect on people." I used to feel this way, particularly when we were closer to 9/11, when anything terrible seemed possible, and I worked in a large-windowed building along the Ike, but here in the Web editor bunker I can neither hear nor see anything of the city. Now any mixed emotions I have towards the event has to do with admittedly out-there idea that it might represent a gauche militarism-lite-as-entertainment (I occasionally feel the same way about fireworks), but there's a part of me that's vividly, childishly awestruck. This weekend's a good time to read Tom Wolfe's entertaining The Right Stuff, the new One Book, One Chicago selection; the movie's pretty good, too.  *The Mountain Goats, "Quito"; a reference to John Magee's "High Flight." July 30th - 9:34 p.m.
I'm stepping away from the blog entirely for a few days, and will be dialing down my participation for awhile thereafter. My divided attentions are needed on some major projects, but I also need to recharge a bit, or at least work up the energy to be a control freak on some other stuff, and reinvest myself in some other interests. And catch up on correspondence (private to lots of people: sorry). So you should, in my stead, start seeing some other Reader voices on here, which I trust will keep you entertained. Oh, and: I haven't posted any pictures in awhile, so I wanted to draw your attention to a couple lovely, humane galleries of portraits by only-connect, taken at Pitchfork and Sherman Park. Here are a couple, but you won't get the full effect without browsing the galleries. These kind of pictures make me want to be less of an agoraphobe. To get all poor-man's-Susan-Sontag for a moment: I think the beauty of them is their stasis. Most festival and concert pictures are about mass and movement (like this one, from the same set), about lots of people doing crazy things, so they emphasize action. By shooting in tight focus, from the neck up, and, most importantly, with total, "boring" symmetry (asymmetry, as Blair Kamin emphasizes, creates motion), these photos are about individual people and stillness, an unconventional and riveting choice for an event like Pitchfork.   July 9th - 10:54 p.m.
Photo by Patrick O'Neil. June 26th - 3:58 a.m.
I put up about 150-some-odd pages over the last couple days; please read my selections for the best local blogs. --Mgmt Below: art by Lauri Apple. That is what I would like tomorrow, by which I mean today.  June 18th - 9:47 p.m.
If you wish to honor the memory of SOLVE--and the outpouring of tributes has really been quite remarkable--the family of Brendan Scanlon asks that you support the art program at his old high school in Madison. Gapers Block has the info. Photo below by swanksalot. (And of course, if you have information about the incident, contact Area 5 police.)  June 17th - 8:45 p.m.
Picture by cmraseye, who has tons of pictures from a Public Enemies shoot. Clicking through to the large sizes is definitely worth it.  June 16th - 7:08 p.m.
Photo by eschlabach  June 13th - 6:25 p.m.
Photo by David Schalliol. I'm well out of college right now, but I live with a grad student and I still get jumpy around this time.  June 12th - 6:04 p.m.
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Actually a picture (by bheuer) from the set of Public Enemies. A tasteful respite from Depp-chasing.  June 10th - 4:06 p.m.
 Merrick Brown. See also the Illinois Thunderstorms Flickr group. May 2nd - 5 p.m.
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Part of a great transit series by keith-e.  April 24th - 7:15 p.m.
Yes, that's two pictures in a row from John Talley. He's good.  April 21st - 6:13 p.m.
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Happy spring, gentle reader. Photo by Joseph Palmer.  April 3rd - 8:28 p.m.
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--John M. Buchanan, Fourth Presbyterian Church (126 E. Chestnut), "If You're Going, I'm Going With You" See also: "Good People" by David Foster Wallace. March 20th - 5:59 p.m.
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Two of my favorite local photographers, Lauri Apple (vid; proprietor of FoundClothing and Stick Figures, True Stories) and David Schalliol (vid), are part of a show Saturday at Cafe Latakia. Schalliol's Isolated Buildings Studies is an amazing series. Here's a good writeup of it.
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 By Katherine of Chicago, proprietor of City of Destiny. Her preservation-oriented collection 1001 Buildings to See Before They Die is a briliant idea; her Flickr pool generally is just an amazing chronicle, particularly of demolished buildings and places I'm curious about but don't have the guts to explore, eg. I guess I have guides and chronicles on my mind today. February 29th - 7:12 p.m.
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 Pavel Trebukov; I like his post on yoga and airport laptop use. Also, check out Gapers Block's Rearview today. David Schalliol is amazing. February 25th - 6:06 p.m.
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Regular Flickr contributor Chris Diers has an elegy for the store pictured below, Aiko's Art Materials at 3347 N. Clark, which is closing in April. It was started in 1955 by Aiko Nagane, a Seattle native and Art Institute grad; she passed away in 2004, and a scholarship at Columbia College was started in her name.  February 14th - 12:50 p.m.
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By Andre Alforque; see also, and.  February 7th - 1:46 p.m.
Cody Pomeroy has a great set of photos from a 2003 pro-war rally and a 2004 anti-war rally. The best of them kind of ruined my day, because I think it explains a lot.  February 6th - 7:32 p.m.
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 Update: A commenter writes "Chicago streetcar ticket? You sure? That looks a lot like a regular, but old, paper bus transfer they used to hand out." Loerzel suggests the ticket comes from circa 1935, based on the book he found it in. Assuming that's true, I'm guessing the Chicago Surface Lines notation means that it's for one of the trolley buses on display here. January 25th - 5:59 p.m.
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 Eric Holubow. His personal site has more great pics and a clever URL. January 24th - 1:53 p.m.
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 By Strass; there's a story behind it that broke my heart, no less because I was listening to the jaw-dropping Sanctus from Mozart's Great Mass, which opens Thursday at the CSO, when I came across it. On a lighter note, I enjoyed this workplace photo and its tags. Going to go do some boring technical stuff now to clear my head. January 23rd - 11:35 a.m.
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 Bill Vaccaro. Check out his series Jesus Is on the Mainline. January 22nd - 10:38 a.m.
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Wow. Photo by Lisa Zielke. See the full-size pic for the full effect.  January 15th - 5:02 p.m.
A great photo by only-connect, but it's the title ("Nissan Dorma") that kills me. "None shall sleep! None shall sleep! Even you, o Princess, in your cold room, watch the stars that tremble with love and with hope. . . ." January 15th - 2:58 p.m.
Photos by Evan M. Butterfield, "part of a work-related project to create abstract black-and-white images."     January 11th - 5:15 p.m.
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Photo by Camera Obscure. Her footcentric pictures are both wry and moving. Having spent a couple Christmas Eves in the hospital, I found these two pictures heartbreaking. January 2nd - 10:49 p.m.
Also, check out his shots of the new Montrose Brown Line station, with environmental graphics by Jason Pickleman. November 19th - 5:05 p.m.
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Lovely diptych of a band called Voodoo and Valentine by Erica Barraca. I also like this black-and-white, sort-of-diptych of her grandfather. 
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 He writes: "One dumpster lid closes, another wood frame is upholstered. The birth of a comfortable piece of furniture is a wondrous thing. 'Tis the cycle of interior design." October 25th - 1:43 a.m.
 Photo by katherine of chicago. Near Roosevelt and Austin; I lived near Roosevelt and Oak Park for a couple years, so I can vouch for this photo's authenticity. October 25th - 12:24 a.m.
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On Monday I featured a pic by Carey Primeau of Jacob Riis Elementary. Here's another by katherine of chicago; more pics of Jacob Riis here. Why is it being torn down? Because. The blog Ecology of Absence has a good post on the school's destruction.
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Just saw today that one of my favorite Reader Flickr contributors, Metroblossom (aka David Schalliol), was featured on one of my favorite blogs, thingsmagazine.net, for his isolated building studies. Update: Schalliol has an opening on Friday at Chicago City Arts Gallery in the Fine Arts Building, and from the looks of it other Reader Flickr contributors will be there. Here are some of his shots from the Flickr pool:     October 8th - 1:40 p.m.
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 Photo by only-connect September 21st - 5:44 p.m.
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You've probably noticed me highlighting a bunch of pics from Señor Codo, aka Chris Diers (you can read more about Señor Codo, and other Chicago street artists, in a great piece by Gapers Block's Shylo Bisnett). That's because he's a hell of a photographer whose documents of the city--particularly of Pilsen--are amazing. Here are a few.      About the last one, Diers writes: "Bonus came through Pilsen one last time before left Chicago. Yes it's true he's leaving the city for awhile but not the scene. This project where he is putting out free art for people to come and take and documenting it has been a pleasure to watch. All the pieces have been really unique. When he is done I believe he will have put out 150 pieces of art painted on found pieces of wood." September 18th - 5:28 p.m.
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Five skyline shots by only-connect, whose eye I've been amazed by since he started contributing to the Reader's Flickr group.      September 13th - 6:17 p.m.
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 Photo by Matt Maldre September 7th - 4:04 p.m.
Moxie Bug, a contributor to the Reader's Flickr group, took advantage of a helicopter tour to take some amazing, amazing low-aerial shots of the city; the ones below are my favorites, but there are more . And, as you can probably tell from the first picture, the surrounding suburbs. I also love this totally opposite but still great factory shot. September 6th - 5:31 p.m.
 Photo by Elizabeth Slabaugh September 5th - 4:36 p.m.
 Photo by Jeffrey Horvath September 4th - 4:38 p.m.
 Photo by JT@slipgrove September 3rd - 12:53 p.m.
 Photo by Patrick O'Neil September 1st - 11:16 a.m.
 Photo by Liz Bustamente August 31st - 5:42 p.m.
 Photo by m::in.the.chi August 30th - 8:06 p.m.
 Photo by Jeffrey Horvath August 29th - 5:20 p.m.
 Photo by Matt Zdano August 27th - 5:47 p.m.
 Photo by Sam Dickey August 24th - 5:16 p.m.
 Photo by André Aguto Alforque August 23rd - 7:40 p.m.
 Photo by Mariana Tomas August 22nd - 5:35 p.m.
 Photo by Matt Maldre August 21st - 4:08 p.m.
 Photo by afunkydamsel August 17th - 4:15 p.m.
 Photo by Kristina Ogilvie August 15th - 4:08 p.m.
 Photo by Matt Zdano August 14th - 2:42 p.m.
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 Photo by Mariana Tomas August 10th - 4:58 p.m.
 Photo by Heather Phillips August 8th - 5:55 p.m.
 Photo by Pat O'Neil August 7th - 5:43 p.m.
 Photo by Chris Diers August 4th - 4:53 p.m.
 Photo by Christopher Hiltz August 3rd - 3:35 p.m.
 Photo by Liz Bustamante August 2nd - 12:30 p.m.
 Photo by only-connect August 1st - 11:19 a.m.
Yes, it makes you look like a tourist. Look up anyway. Photo of the Inland Steel building by Brian Sutton. See if you can figure out how he got the distorted reflection. July 31st - 4:19 p.m.
 Photo by Heather Phillips July 26th - 1:47 p.m.
First I saw this picture of a Logan Square barber shop by Heather Phillips.  In the comments there was a link to this picture of a barber shop on Archer by PJ Chmiel.  In the comments to that picture there was a link to the Flickr group Hairdressers with Supposedly Funny Pun Names. Which is obviously a good idea. July 25th - 2:08 p.m.
 Photo by Chambershines July 23rd - 9:21 a.m.
 Photo by Pat O'Neil July 21st - 11:03 a.m.
 Photo by JT@slipgrove July 20th - 9:56 a.m.
 Photo by Jeremy Biles July 19th - 10:03 a.m.
 Photo by Dana M. Browning July 18th - 10:40 a.m.
Photo by Christopher Hiltz from the Wrens show on 6/24/2007. This pic gets me. They're a great band, too. Try "Built In Girls," off Secaucus, which you can download here.  July 17th - 12:06 p.m.
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What I love about this picture by Chambershines is that it looks like it was taken with a filter. Which it was, I guess, but the filter was the familiar green tint of the Metra windows.  July 16th - 10:48 a.m.
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 Photo by Nem Perez July 14th - 12:21 a.m.
 Photo by Andy Plonka July 13th - 9:12 a.m.
 Photo by Chris Diers July 12th - 2:27 p.m.
 Photo by Lucy Jodlowska July 4th - 12:42 p.m.
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