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Posts: 2,939 | Chicago on Tuesday, November, 07, 2006 11:34 PM
Whoo hoo! This Thurdsay I'm flying out to the great windy city of Chicago, from the 9th to the 12th, as part of a AIGA graphic design trip. Finally a chance to actually do something else besides freakin' assignments! Added bonus is I'm missing a major test Thursday, but will take it when I get back. Perfect, cause I can study for it when I get back. It just works better this way.
Boy, this semester has been a dousey. This is a much needed break from the hectic pace I've been running at getting design projects and other assignments done.
Well, off to pack my bags. Need to get a carry around sketch pad for scribbleings.(L) Oh... need a new mechanical pencil and some 0.7 led refills. https://www.flickr.com/photos/blue_bezel/ |
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Posts: 2,691 | Re: Chicago on Wednesday, November, 08, 2006 1:40 AM
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Posts: 0 | Re: Chicago on Wednesday, November, 08, 2006 1:53 AM
Have fun!
I should travel...*sigh*
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Posts: 0 | Re: Chicago on Thursday, November, 09, 2006 6:33 PM
Have a great time in Chicago, Sketch!
I wonder if they sell little souvenir bottles of Chicago wind-in-a-bottle?
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Posts: 4 | Re: Chicago on Thursday, November, 09, 2006 8:36 PM
Have fun Sketch!
Hopefully next year's trip, assuming you go again, coincides with Wizard World Chicago.
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Posts: 4,467 | Re: Chicago on Thursday, November, 09, 2006 9:53 PM
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Posts: 2,939 | Boy, have we got a vacation for you... on Sunday, November, 12, 2006 10:28 PM
Got back from Chicago around 2:00 pm today. Whoo... had a great time. The trip was a tad unorganized, but I still had fun. Have over 200 images I took with my digital camera. Chicago isn't called "The windy city" for nothing, the wind was COLD! Mix that with lots of rain one night and start the Benny Hill music as hundreds scamper across the streets to avoid getting drentched. So glad I had my umbrella. Ate a Chicago hotdog and deepdish pizza. They were great! It was awsome being on the streets or a bus and hearing about four or five other languages being spoken. Love diversity. Went to two art museums, and two graphic design studios, nothing fancy or upscale, just very small studios. Our other studios we where going to meet fell through at the last second. The stores where awsome. I went into my first actual LEGO store. It rocked!
Spent more on food than anything. I picked up a really awsome book I hope to read called "Loving the Machine: The art and science of Japanese robots." Also got Westworld and Raph Bakshi's Wizards on DVD. Already watched them both while working on assignemtns. I fell in love with the 1970s coloful stylization of Wizards when I caught it on HBO many years ago. Happy to own this film now. I love Westworld. I knew I wouldn't be dissapointed in it. Seeing all those old tape reel computers whirrling about throught the film is so cool. Gunslinger is absolutely sinister, especially those killer silver eyes he sports. They did a good job in the technological presentation of the film. Other items I bought include a Bonejangles figure from Corpse Bride, a #43 The King from Pixars Cars keychain for my Dad from the Disney store, where I also found a Rocketeer pin.
I didn't draw once during the trip, a first for me. That actually worried me. I mean I always draw. Guess I'm still burned out cause of how much I've given and contunue to give to my classes this semester.
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Posts: 0 | Re: Chicago on Sunday, November, 12, 2006 10:39 PM
Wow... sounds awesome.. and I am glad you had a great time. Don't worry about not actually sketching... you were just gathering source material, right?
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Posts: 0 | Re: Chicago on Monday, November, 13, 2006 6:30 PM
Wow - sounds like you had quite a trip!
I'd love to see how those Chicago hotdogs and deep dish pizzas are like myself... do they deliver to upstate, NY?
Sketch Wrote:I didn't draw once during the trip, a first for me. That actually worried me. I mean I always draw. Guess I'm still burned out cause of how much I've given and contunue to give to my classes this semester. |
LMAO
I was all confused for a moment there.
You see, you were talking about Westworld and then said you didn't draw and my mind went thinking "He didn't draw? What, does he normally draw his gun when he travels?"
A second later I was like DUH!
Ok, I cracked myself up over that, I guess.
Man, it's been many years since I've seen that film myself. I actually saw it for the first time in the late 70's on TV when I was a kid. I thought it was so cool - the robots and how they'd show them with their faces off and other exposed mechanics, etc. I used to love seeing things like that on The Six Million Dollar Man too (exposed circuitry) - it was fascinating to me. And funny you should mention those old tape-reel computers. EVERY film EVER (well, within the time period of my youth) used to use scenery like that to depict powerful and intelligent computer systems. Even TRON had a bunch of reel to reel machines in that one scene with Flynn and Laura heading toward the laser bay. I really miss that kind of thing. Reel to reel computers, tons and tons of flashing lights, and those old-school computer clicking and beeping noises. Ahh - the good old days of futuristic machinery!
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Posts: 4,467 | Re: Chicago on Monday, November, 13, 2006 9:04 PM
Glad to hear you had a good time, Sketch! I guess Chicago held up its reputation for being the "windy city"! But I guess now we can add "rainy" to the description!
TheReelTodd Wrote:I'd love to see how those Chicago hotdogs and deep dish pizzas are like myself... do they deliver to upstate, NY? |
Man, I would love to find a place that serves good hotdogs! Up here it's either find a hotdog stand in Toronto, or make it yourself. Nobody really sells them. And the ones from the hotdog stands aren't that good anyway.
I thought it was so cool - the robots and how they'd show them with their faces off and other exposed mechanics, etc. I used to love seeing things like that on The Six Million Dollar Man too (exposed circuitry) - it was fascinating to me. |
You too? I was both fascinated and creeped out by the robots in Westworld and Six Million Dollar Man (and Bionic Woman). And also every time Steve or Jaime had to repair their bionics. I thought it was so cool. SMDM and BW were (and still are, actually) a couple of my favorite shows. So much so, I even created a page for them on the Sci-Fi Channel site once, long ago.
Westworld is a classic, and I even liked Futureworld. I wish I could see Beyond Westworld . . . it was a short-lived TV show based on those two movies. But it's hard to get, bootleg copies only.
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Posts: 0 | Re: Chicago on Monday, November, 13, 2006 9:46 PM
redrain85 Wrote:And also every time Steve or Jaime had to repair their bionics. I thought it was so cool. |
Yes, but did you have a Six Million Dollar Man action figure with Bionics Lab? I did! *beams*
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Posts: 2,939 | Re: Chicago on Monday, November, 13, 2006 11:22 PM
I'd love to see how those Chicago hotdogs and deep dish pizzas are like myself... do they deliver to upstate, NY? |
Don't know, haven't had a New York Pizza or Hotdog before, so I can't say. From what I have heard is New York pizza is not just good, but damn near indestructable.
Sketch Wrote:I didn't draw once during the trip, a first for me. That actually worried me. I mean I always draw. Guess I'm still burned out cause of how much I've given and contunue to give to my classes this semester.
LMAO
I was all confused for a moment there.
You see, you were talking about Westworld and then said you didn't draw and my mind went thinking "He didn't draw? What, does he normally draw his gun when he travels?"
A second later I was like DUH!
Ok, I cracked myself up over that, I guess.
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LOL!
Man, it's been many years since I've seen that film myself. I actually saw it for the first time in the late 70's on TV when I was a kid. I thought it was so cool - the robots and how they'd show them with their faces off and other exposed mechanics, etc. I used to love seeing things like that on The Six Million Dollar Man too (exposed circuitry) - it was fascinating to me. |
Yeah, there's a sinisterness and believability how in the 70s they presented humanoid robots that had removeable faces that exposed all the interal mechanisms. There's a sinisterness about that too.
And funny you should mention those old tape-reel computers. EVERY film EVER (well, within the time period of my youth) used to use scenery like that to depict powerful and intelligent computer systems. Even TRON had a bunch of reel to reel machines in that one scene with Flynn and Laura heading toward the laser bay. I really miss that kind of thing. Reel to reel computers, tons and tons of flashing lights, and those old-school computer clicking and beeping noises. Ahh - the good old days of futuristic machinery!
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Yeah, I love seeing the older tech in films like that. Those old systems really had a raw mechanical edge to them that really added to the technological feel in films. Sure they can't process worth a rip compared to todays smaller and faster equipment, but there is something awsome about seeing a system like a punchcard computer clunk and clatter it's way to a calculation or an old tape reel computer hum and whirl away at some unknown data process. Blinking control lights rock as well. https://www.flickr.com/photos/blue_bezel/ |
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Posts: 4,467 | Re: Chicago on Tuesday, November, 14, 2006 9:04 PM
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Posts: 2,939 | Re: Chicago on Tuesday, November, 14, 2006 10:22 PM
The Sx Million Dollar man figure is awsome. The Critical Assignment arms and legs is a brilliant bionic touch by the toy makers. Even compared to todays toys the figure still holds its own. Maskatron was cool too. I would love to add a SMDM to my robot collection. https://www.flickr.com/photos/blue_bezel/ |
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Posts: 0 | Re: Chicago on Wednesday, November, 15, 2006 7:06 PM
I used to have the Six Million Dollar Man action figure too! Me and my cousin both had one - we used to play Bionic Duo together with them. It was so cool - you could look through his bionic eye, and roll up his skin to reveal his bionic arm implant (can't remember if his leg skin rolled up too, or if they were just exposed all the time).
I had the rocket-ship lab set too - that was the coolest!
I wonder what ever became of that. I have so many of my original childhood toys and don't know what happened to those. I may have sold them at a garage sale in 1979 when we moved. My parents pressured me to sell some of my toys when we moved.
I had (and STILL have somewhere) my old Pulsar action figure! This thing was great! He has a see-through chest plate where you can see his insides - lungs, heart, intestine, and you could make his lungs breathe, heart beat, and blood circulate by pushing his back in. His head flipped up too and you could see his brain! There were little discs you could place in his brain to program him (just pretend program, he didn't really do anything without you moving him). I had the lab set with him too - had a cool x-ray thing with it and a bunch of other cool things. Pulsar I have somewhere, I'm sure. The play set may have gotten trashed after it fell apart over time I think. Another awesome toy of the 70's!
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