There is so much I love about this photograph, courtesy of Joel Sternfeld. Obviously the first thing that strikes the viewer is the mundane working class urban landscape disrupted by clusters of pink and white balloons protruding over a fence. The next thing one notices while looking at this image is the ominous storm clouds over head, beautiful purples, pinks, blues, grays, and whites washing together into a bright yellow break in the overcast far off the horizon, only noticeable in the upper right hand corner. Finally, after taking all the visual clues in, one appreciates, I hope, the concert of geometries exhibited in the side boards of the houses, lines of the streets, angles of the chain link fence modified with siding for privacy, the peaks of the roofs, the grid of the crosswalk...ect. The overall visual metaphor being celebrate life when you can no matter what the surrounding circumstances may be; something we all need to be reminded of from time to time.
MUSIC!!!
So this dude who I know from my WHPK days at the University of Chicago has an amazing radio show that showcases rare and obscure Chicago (regional) soul. It's called Sitting in the Park- here are his podcast thingies, listen to some of his shows on the internetz if you get the chance and if you are lucky enough to live in a part of Chicago where you can actually listen to it live, tune in to 88.5 fm on Sunday nights from 7:30 to 9:00 pm. Good, good stuff.
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