Hold on! The world is turning upside down!

Everybody grab the person in front of you!

Portrait session I

[John, Amir, Nate]

Pre-Graduation Party

 Hurray, we got our regalia! 

 [graduation = levitation]

 jup.

hm, Cameron?

[sorry for all the gifs. but that is how it turned out...]

Push II

there they are... 

 double button action,

and $1K worth of electronics in a tiny pile.

 the rest of the team [John, Janice]

 one-by-one...

and now all of these are gone.

Chicago Cultural Plan

Building some probes to find out about culture in Pilsen:

little GPS sensors giving you the ability to perform a "physical" check-in at a location

 spring-loaded PVC end-caps, some milling, grinding...

 [Nate]

and a handful of electronics should do it. Let's see if it all comes together.

 

too few USB ports to charge them all at once

Lyric Opera II

Very sweet candid shots of some fellow visitors getting a handle on their roles for this season.

Good night Chicago!

And "Eat Right"

Go GoKey

Francesca and my ex-neighborhood neighbor Cristina launched their kickstarter project, it's a little bracelet that allows you to safely carry your key while being on the run.
Also on Fast.Co here: http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669495/gokey-the-easiest-way-to-store-a-key-when-you-run

And your's truly is responsible for most of the imagery and the videography in the later half of the video.

Good Luck!

Lyric Opera I

Before Julia left we went on a little trip through the Lyric Opera. Once a year they open their backrooms for two weekends and shuffle a couple hundred people through there.

 

 Aida was on that night so some of the props were up already.

the rear stage,

 

You can clearly see where the wear is happening.... and Werther seems to have some problems finding his garments.

 

The windiest guy on the block (and his wind machine).

Tea (for the Orchestra)...               Party (for the stylist)   

Good bye, it was great!

uuuummmmmaaahh

coffee love.

and after party

 Very fun night with a lot of good people. Here, Jamie and Janice for a mezzanine pitcher of margaritas at Big Star before crashing Danny's (quite literally). 

PS: has anyone seen my lonely bottle of red wine, it has gone astray and couldn't find me with all the ruckus going on...

NOWhouse!

 This Thursday we had a beautifully organized get-together at "Public Works",

with David McGaw as an outstanding and truly funny MC,

 full of interesting and at times quirky stories,

well received by the audience that made it into the sold out show.

 

Thanks for having us!

Lecker Abendessen

 mit dem Spiel "Apples-to-Apples"

 bei Will (hier rechts im Bild) in seinem Baumhaus, neben James samt Pfeife

und Farid (und Jule natülich auch mit).