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I recently posted a still photo I shot from the Thriller Zombie Walk held in Wicker Park last weekend. Here’s a short film (work in progress) on the event. Thanks to The Goblins for the soundtrack music, and thanks to Martin and Lindsay (the Zombie Walk organizers) and all of the spectacular, gorgeous zombies.
Zombie Bride at Thriller Zombie Walk
Last weekend Martians ran amok in Union Park. Last night in Wicker Park, undead Michael Jackson fans rose up and reenacted John Landis’ Thriller video and then stumbled south, taking over Damen Avenue, and continued east on Division, then back north on Ashland, all the while writhing ecstatically to the dead pop-king’s infectious tunes, which blared from a boombox-appointed hotrod bicycle. What’s next, Malayan sun bears in Lincoln Park? More pictures and video on the way…
Not long after bumping into Martians at Union Park last weekend, I ran into Chris Salveter (accompanied by the lovely Jamie Michelle Topper), who I accosted and photographed. You can take pictures of Chris and Jamie and the other Jamie and Ryan and Darrell at Schubas next Monday (July 27th) where they’ll be performing with their popular music outfit Judson Claiborne.
Premier photo-retoucher, film actor, and comedian David Yow has reunited with The Jesus Lizard; at Pitchfork Music Festival last Friday they reminded us what rock sounds like. They’ll be back in November for a show or two at Metro.
Probably just a coincidence, but I just noticed that this New York Times blog post from last Friday—on the topic of lost moon landing video—opens with the exact same sentence as my blog post from a couple weeks ago on the same subject (“conspiracy theorists, start your engines”). Anyhow, my delusions of grandeur notwithstanding, it turns out the original Apollo 11 tapes were erased, and the “new” footage from NASA is just a freshly restored version. Monday is the 40th anniversary of the moon landing–here’s a Wired article on NASA’s festivities.
I shot this yesterday on the south side lakefront in Chicago. Click on the image to pan left, right, or up and down. Use the shift and control keys to zoom in and out, or use the + and – buttons below the image. If you have trouble viewing this, please let me know in the comments.
UPDATE: You can see this much larger if you click on the little globe below (you’ll need the Flash plugin, which you most likely already have).
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Temple of Divine Love, Chicago
Shot at The Crotch (Chicago’s intersection of North, Damen, and Milwaukee Avenues) on July 1, 2009.
Coyote Building, Chicago
Here are a proof sheet scans (these are not final images) of a couple recent Widelux pictures I took on Milwaukee Avenue.
Proofsheet scan: Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago.
Proofsheet scan: Earwax Café, Chicago.
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