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Chicago 1949 by Stanley Kubrick Before he started making movies, Stanley Kubrick was a star photojournalist. In the summer of 1949, Look magazine sent him to Chicago to shoot pictures for a story called “Chicago City of Contrasts.” - Chicago Tribune via retronaut

Chicago 1949 by Stanley Kubrick

Before he started making movies, Stanley Kubrick was a star photojournalist. In the summer of 1949, Look magazine sent him to Chicago to shoot pictures for a story called “Chicago City of Contrasts.”

- Chicago Tribune

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Posted at 11:20 AM 27 January 2012

Vertical Farm at Chicago Airport: Simple and Cool! →

agritecture:

I just stumbled upon this great post about a new Vertical Farm project at Chicago airport. Check out the images and notice the varieties of foods that can be grown on these small food production towers.

Set in a seemingly unused nook of the G Terminal, a mezzanine space has been transformed into a high-tech urban garden. I see a lot of projects like this one – usually they have a DIY vibe that is quite inspiring (hey, even I could do that!) This urban garden however looked like it came out of a ride at Disney.

www.urbangardensweb.com

SO COOL!

Edible flowers and ready to eat lettuce. Yummy!

What looks like the most comfortable chairs in the airport are set up around the installation with tables to create a park-like setting. Between the view of the runways and the “sunny” urban garden I now know where I’ll be killing time for the next delayed flight.

www.urbangardensweb.com

DIY experimental Vertical Farming projects in airports…a creative way of increasing awareness of BIA and providing food to airport food distributors.

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Posted at 9:40 AM 25 January 2012
Sarah Elizabeth Ippel : Keeping it Real at CUSP Later, Sarah Elizabeth Ippel, founder/executive director, Academy for Global Citizenship, a Chicago public charter school with a primarily low-income student population, continues keeping it real. She could easily throw up stats on her students’ extraordinary academic gains and call it a conference. Instead, she speaks about students she doesn’t have capacity to serve. Framing their lack of access to quality education as nothing short of a civil rights violation, Ippel implores the crowd to take action: “We all live in this nightmare together,” she says. Warm-fuzzy stats would be more comfortable. But Ippel must figure this crowd can handle the truth. And if by chance the truth gets scary, attendees can always refer back to the blindfolded man who opened CUSP by shouting: “Fear is not a one-time event! It’s a process! And it can motivate us!” (via Notes from the CUSP Conference | Metropolis POV | Metropolis Magazine)

Sarah Elizabeth Ippel : Keeping it Real at CUSP

Later, Sarah Elizabeth Ippel, founder/executive director, Academy for Global Citizenship, a Chicago public charter school with a primarily low-income student population, continues keeping it real. She could easily throw up stats on her students’ extraordinary academic gains and call it a conference.

Instead, she speaks about students she doesn’t have capacity to serve. Framing their lack of access to quality education as nothing short of a civil rights violation, Ippel implores the crowd to take action: “We all live in this nightmare together,” she says.

Warm-fuzzy stats would be more comfortable. But Ippel must figure this crowd can handle the truth. And if by chance the truth gets scary, attendees can always refer back to the blindfolded man who opened CUSP by shouting: “Fear is not a one-time event! It’s a process! And it can motivate us!”

(via Notes from the CUSP Conference | Metropolis POV | Metropolis Magazine)

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Posted at 9:43 AM 06 October 2011
10 Observations from a 2-Year-Old Blog - Alex Garcia Chicago Tribune photojournalist shares learnings from his second year of photo - blogging. (via Chicago Tribune)

10 Observations from a 2-Year-Old Blog - Alex Garcia

Chicago Tribune photojournalist shares learnings from his second year of photo - blogging.

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Posted at 7:41 AM 15 July 2011

Vivian Maier's Chicago Street Photography →

A LIFE IN SHADOW: The North Shore families who hired Vivian Maier as a nanny came to know a kind but eccentric woman who guarded her private life and kept a huge stash of boxes. A chance discovery after her death by a man named John Maloof has spotlighted her secret talent as a photographer and led to a growing appreciation of her vast work.

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Posted at 10:08 AM 20 January 2011