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Regarding That Vitaminwater Wrap
JCDecaux is our bus shelter ad overlord. Here’s their latest Chicago video upload.
Please note:
* Nobody’s really looking at the ad. How is effectiveness measured?
* The skateboard kid is cool in an ad but would scare many Chicagoans if seen on the street – which is their problem, not Vitaminwater’s.
* No audio; maybe talk about the marketing packages and costs.
* On YouTube, this video category is listed as Nonprofits & Activism. Really, Decaux?
Posted on June 5, 2012
By Village of Oak Park News
“Oak Park’s first annual summer outdoor sculpture walk is set for June 2 – mid-October. Art will be on display at 12 locations on Lake Street and Forest Avenue. The walk will begin at the Oak Park Public Library, 834 Lake St., head west along Lake to Forest, then north toward Chicago.
“The sculpture walk was organized by the Public Art Advisory Commission, citizen volunteers who promote the acquisition and placement of public art that reflects diversity and artistic expression, and enhances the esthetic environment of the Village.
“Details are posted at www.oak-park.us/sculpturewalk. For more information, call 708.358.5648 or e-mail planning@oak-park.us.”
Posted on June 4, 2012
By J.J. Tindall
My Mind is Like a Rhododendron
Let me be candid:
I like beer and I
love the ladies!
That’s the thing of it.
My mind is like a rhododendron:
everywhere it leaps, it eats.
This is the thing of it,
Posted on May 31, 2012
By The Silverman Group
With an assist from the Beachwood 3-D News Desk.
Color Jam is the largest public artwork in Chicago’s history and the largest contiguous vinyl project in the United States. It is composed of more than 76,000 square feet of colored vinyl – enough material to make 50,000 vinyl records, wrap more than 130 city buses or cover one-and-a-half football fields. Printing Color Jam on a standard HP home printer would require 2,100 ink cartridges and 180 hours of continuous printing.
Color Jam is the third installment in Chicago Loop Alliance’s annual Art Loop public art initiative, following Tony Tasset’s three-story EYE sculpture in 2010, and last year’s five-story mural by Kay Rosen encouraging viewers to GO DO GOOD.
A video feed of the Color Jam installation site at State and Adams Streets is streaming live at www.colorjamchicago.com now through June 5. Color Jam will cover the intersection of State and Adams Streets from June 5 through September 30, 2012.
Posted on May 25, 2012
By The Leinenkugel Brewing Company
Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company is rolling out Big Eddy Imperial India Pale Ale, a bold interpretation of the classic style, featuring earthy hop bitterness. Big Eddy Imperial IPA is the second in a series of new Big Eddy brews debuting in 2012.
Big Eddy IIPA fills the senses with five distinctive Pacific Northwest hops, which are added at each stage of the brewing process. Hops include Warrior, Cascade, Simcoe, Citra, and the extremely rare Amarillo. The beer boasts grapefruit, mandarin orange and mango notes, balanced by a hint of pine and a strong caramel, toffee sweetness, giving it a complex, multifaceted character.
Posted on May 24, 2012
Blue Helmets And War Machines
When Walter Cronkite declared Chicago a police state.
Posted on May 22, 2012
By J.J. Tindall
Re*ac*tor
My skull became a nuclear reactor,
where my mind
burned white.
Overwhelmed by a tsunami
of grievous
but universally human
Posted on May 20, 2012
By The Mural At Addison And Avondale Crew
Local residents and organizations of the Avondale neighborhood will come together on Thursday, June 21, for a Community Paint Day from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. to help complete the colorful and vibrant mural created by Rafael Lopez an internationally recognized artist.
Working with local artists and neighborhood children, Lopez will create a 100-foot mural, which he has designed based on the professed values of community members including: diversity, energy, growth, vitality, friendship, sense of community, family, green space and intersections. The mural, which is to cover the South wall of the viaduct will beautify the neighborhood and provide color and style to the well-tred intersection of Addison and Avondale, just under the Metra tracks.
Posted on May 17, 2012
