The installation of the Pollinator Garden Mosaic took only one day to install and is the crowning artwork in along the north wall of 77 West Wacker’s Polllinator garden.
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Social Media 'Gut Punch' Vid — Silencer Centrifuges
Silencer Centrifuge, a US-made clinical laboratory centrifuge, needed a punchy social media vid to highlight their newly designed line of machines.
Garden Joy - Urban Prairie Waldorf School
A lovely little video celebrating life moving forward through social-distancing at Urban Prairie Waldorf School.
Michaelmas - Urban Prairie Waldorf School 4th Graders
Michaelmas, which began as an equinox and harvest festival in the Middle Ages, is also a feast to honor The archangel Michael or Mikail. Michael is an archangel in Judaism, Christianity and Islam and, in all traditions, he is a symbolic leader of the force of good over evil and courage over cowardice. The celebration of Michaelmas teaches the importance of overcoming fear and strengthening resolve.
Michaelmas falls near the autumn equinox, when the weather is rapidly changing, the days are noticeably shorter, and we feel a natural instinct to prepare for the colder months ahead. It marks the end of the harvest and the season when we feel the impulse to turn inward after the long, warm days of summer, and gather up strength and fortitude to face the colder days and long nights of the winter ahead.
Michaelmas is typically the first festival of the new school year celebrated in Waldorf schools. Themes of harvest and courage govern the preparations, games and activities of this festival, which culminates in a play performed by the grade school children. In the play, a destructive fiery dragon is tamed by the people of a town whose hearts are endowed with courage and enthusiasm by St. Michael. It is a story that parallels our own human challenges, illuminating the inner courage it takes to find and bring forth our own inward light when the sun, warmth and growth of the earth are fading. The story speaks to children in a deeply symbolic way, feeding their innate need for truth and justice.
Each student must face their own difficulties in life, both internal and external, and Michaelmas both educates and empowers the children to find the courage to take on and defeat their personal dragons. And so, we celebrate Michaelmas in the Waldorf tradition to remind ourselves of the strength we need in the coming season and in our personal lives to defeat darkness and let hope prevail.
Michaelmas
Slaying the dragon…
Bright Lights Big City - Lookingglass Theater
A quick look at the final photograph for Big Lake Big City, Lookingglass’ latest show that starts early June. An edgey, high-concept lighting aesthetic that fits the narrative of the show.
Detective Bass can’t catch a break: his boss is a hard-ass, his partner’s a knucklehead, his wife’s a cheat and now he’s chasing a perp who has a screwdriver in his head.
Written by Keith Huff
Directed by Ensemble Member David Schwimmer
From the writer of the hit dramas “House of Cards,” “Mad Men” and Broadway’s A Steady Rain
International Photography Award - Hat Trick
Beach Version of CA Raisin Campaign
This month, THREE campaigns won awards in the 2012 International Photography Awards competition announced in October: California Raisins Campaign that shot this summer, Joffrey Ballet Company’s advertising campaign, and a fine-art commissioned piece for the new LurieChildren’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago.
California Raisins
The idea behind the campaign is: raisins mature and get better (and sweeter) in the sun . . . so do kids. And so we shot a series of three images around Chicago parks and beach fronts, rounding out some of the images with CGI. We brought a 15-foot trampoline into the studio to shoot the children for the Double Dutch shot, but then found it so successful, we used it for the kids on the beach and the skateboarder, too. (Read / See More)
Joffrey Ballet
Three narrative compositions representing Kurt Jooss’ The Green Table, Twyla Tharp’s Nine Sinatra Songs, and Shakespeare’s Othello. This year’s campaign is a departure for the company in terms of scale and composition. Each image is set off-stage in stylized narrative worlds and composed from iconic Chicago locations. (Read / See More)
Kurt Jooss' Green Table
Birds of Breath — A commission for Chicago Children’s Memorial Hopspital
Birds of Breath
Birds of Breath, which was commissioned for the Cystic Fibrosis floor in collaboration with Redmoon Theater. The idea behind the image was to create an extremely rich composition that would allow family members and patients a hopeful distraction from the happenings of the floor. Birds is a composite of more than two-hundred mourning doves in flight and rest, shot individually in studio and placed throughout the image. The tree—shaped like bronchial tubes of the lungs—was a scale model and skinned with actual photographs of bark. The hills are simply photographs taken from Chicago’s Humboldlt Park. (Read / See More)
Cover Photo for Timeout Chicago
This week’s cover of Timeout Chicago features a FUN!! photograph of my friend and fellow tango dancer, Romina Giffi, and her “dog” …. in a bottle.
Huh?
It’s for the Small Spaces issue that looks at creating stylish yet functional living spaces in less than 600 square feet.
600 square feet?
Yep, that would be a room 24′ by 25′. Two rooms 15 x20. Roughly 2 semi-truck trailers side-by-side. In a word: SMALL. Or rather: small.
The art direction behind the photograph was how to articulate this feeling quickly and clearly.
A ship in a bottle?
A girl in a bottle?
A girl in her apartment… in a bottle?
A girl in her apartment? With her dog? In a bottle?
That’s what we want…..
The element that I thought was really important was giving the bottle space and breathing room. If you look at ships in bottles (say … on your Hemingway-loving grandfather’s mantel) you’ll see that the ship is rather cramped. It comes with the thought: how the heck they get that in there?
For this photograph, I felt it important for there to be space. Albeit small, the space in the bottle needed to be ample. Inviting. And fun! I really wanted it to be fun! And what better fun than popcorn-catching dog tricks?
A very big Thank You to Deana Cizek and Andrew Augustin of Chicago’s Room & Board Showroomwho gave us free reign on an early early Sunday morning to create our perfect apartment in a bottle. To Jenn Lake of Zapwater Communications who helped connect me with the lovely people at Room & Board.
And especially to the lovely Romina Giffi, who had the perfect matching outfit for our apartment. And checkout the little rough-and-tumble version of the forthcoming behind-the-scenes video where we see how she really connects with her pooch. It’s true love …. and fun!
And finally to Champ. Awesome work!
And a fun behind-the-scenes video is here:
https://vimeo.com/48975148