All posts tagged: Link Love

Chicagoans Share Their Favorite Memories

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What is your favorite memory? Cherished childhood moments? First love? Incredible travels? The simple everyday moments that don’t stand out until they are gone? This short film by social media agency Brand Nua asked 50 people in Chicago one question, “What is your favorite memory?” Their responses are as varied as those who share them, and each answer strike a chord. Director Galvea Kelly captures the poignant replies along with gorgeous downtown views. “I think you just made my day,” one respondent exclaimed. “It’s just this flooding back of all these really great things.” So next time you’re dashing about downtown, stop and take in the sweeping views and the strangers who share your city – you could be creating your new favorite memory. My favorite memory is summers spent camping with my family. Sunny afternoons fishing with my dad, cooking elaborate meals by campfire with my mom, running through the woods with my siblings and our imaginations, classic rock on the radio and nothing to distract us from just being together. [via Refinery29] For …

Street Scene: Vintage Outdoor Ads in Chicago

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“Hundreds of thousands of buyers repeatedly receive up-to-the-minute information concerning products necessary to their daily living.” No, we are not talking tweets or Google+, the advertising medium in mind is billboards. “To Market to Market,” by General Outdoor Advertising Co. offers a look at daily life in Chicago circa 1942. While we discover the scientific processes behind outdoor ad placement, Chicagoans are seen running errands in furs, hats, and heels or pulling up vintage automobiles to a filling station. A billboard reading, “Help Defense, Don’t Waste Antifreeze,” displays a sense of the times, yet ads for Sunkist, Coca-Cola, and Rice Krispies remind us that maybe nowadays are not so different. [via How to be a Retronaut]

Link Love: Unexpected Journeys

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Whether across the world, from one career to another, into the past or a new season, enjoy exploring this week’s unexpected journeys. remembering: 1989 comes to life in malls across america planning: summer starts in one week! chloe sevigny shares her plans inspiring: a jewelry duo share their top 5 ways a business background aids artistic endeavors traveling: yann arthus-bertrand’s aerial photos from around the world listening: discover and create handcrafted playlists by theme

Link Love: Symbolic Imagery of the Past

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enjoy a few of my favorite links this week – symbolic imagery of the past [+ chloe’s springspiration]. traveling: wanderlust via david klein’s vintage travel posters exploring: searching for meaning in 25 abandoned ex-Yugoslav sculptures inspiring: chloe sevigny loves spring, in fact she’s overwhelmed by it preserving: when cities can’t get over the past – avoiding the nostalgia trap in london & brooklyn

Green Tunnel: Hiking The Appalachian Trail

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“Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.” – William Wordsworth Today I bring you a decidedly less urban form of exploration. Over the course of six months, hiker Kevin Gallagher traversed the 2,181 mile Appalachian Trail and captured it in his short, Green Tunnel. Gallagher took 24 sequential snapshots each day during his epic hike along the trail from Georgia to Maine. His collection of over 4,000 slides was converted into a four-and-a-half minute film winding through the seasons and across the country.  Gallagher takes us up hills, through valleys, mists, and meadows. We squeeze between craggy stone crevices and pass under lush verdant archways. There is even a cow or two. On his website Gallagher describes the film as, “…an effort to bridge the divide from a contemporary America’s pace and outlook to the natural world’s slow rhythms, the film stands as an antithetically fitful and bombastic document of a measured and tedious exercise in endurance.” Insert your favorite Wordsworth quote and enjoy the lovely Green Tunnel.

Interactive Chicago History Map

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I knew there were some mobster hangouts in my neighborhood back in Prohibition days, but little did I guess that some notorious murders took place near my house in the 1980’s. Also, some Blues Brothers scenes were filmed nearby; I’ll be re-watching ASAP for a peek at my hood. I have an incredible capacity for trivial tidbits, but I hadn’t encountered these points until playing with the new Chicago History Map by Domu. The Chicago apartment search website launched this interactive map earlier this week, presumably to highlight its map-based search approach to real estate. About 500 Chicago locations of note are listed by category on a Google map. Interactive and colorful, the map is easy to use. There is a category to interest everybody, including Sports, Famous Residents, Notorious Crime Scenes, Oddities, Tragedies, Film Locations, and even the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. Click on a marker to identify the historical event, with a link to access more information. Within a few minutes of perusing I learned: The Oscar statuette, as well as awards …

Art for Art’s Sake: Google Art Project

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“Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials.” – Yann Martel Art, history, culture, design, literature – more than a few of my favorite things coalesce so splendidly in museums.  Call me a nerd, a really big nerd, but strolling through a gallery soothes my soul, affording both a calm contentment and a rush of inspiration the way only losing myself in a good book or absorbing a sweeping vista does. With any new globetrotting mission, I strive to visit a museum in each destination.  The local perspective gained is invaluable, as well as the dialogue on a global and, of course, personal level.  Walking through a museum transports you spatially and temporally in a matter of steps.  In the space of a few galleries you may zip from an ancient Egyptian tomb, to a Renaissance parlor, to Andy Warhol’s Factory.  Yet when our demanding social calendars don’t allow hours to spare or the Wikipedia version of Rembrandt just won’t suffice, Google brings you their new Art Project. The Frick is at your fingertips, …