William Robb wrote:
Doug, you really should have come for pizza on Saturday.
If we do this again, we should probably arrange our hotels to be closer.
I don't know where you stayed, but my hotel looked pretty heavy.
I hope we do this again.
It's funny, the things that we do, and the things that happen. On Saturday,
Tom and I hooked up with Stan, and we did somewhat of a tourist gig at the
Bean, a large chrome thing.
By good fortune, this coincided with a Scottish Pipe Band playing Scotland
the Brave passingly well.
I believe I mentioned at the time the existence of my family's pipe band.
This is them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GY-2MxMn2c&feature=related
OK, we'll see how many have been scared off by the bagpipes.
And on to the things that happen.
Last year at about this time, I was playing tug with my dog. At some point,
he hit my knee with his body and bent it sideways.
I am now somewhat lame.
On several levels, I am sure, but in this case, I can only stand up for so
long before I need to find a place to sit.
But as always, I digress yet again.
Oh yes, I was hanging out with Tom and Stan.
And my knee said screw you, I am now going to torment you until you cry
like
a girl.
Yeah, by Saturday night my hips were shot. I could barely keep up with
the Mountain Goat and Ms. Mountain Goat, having to resort to a
combination of limping and shuffling that gained a little speed and was
just scary enough to make passersby clear a path.
And so we found a little coffee shop and Stan, Tom and I talked about many
things.
Stan, it turns out, is a lover of Great Danes, and at one time was
thinking about breeding
them.
And so we talked about dogs for a while.
And Stan told us about a fellow that turns entire towns into his studio.
Which had nothing to do with dogs, but that isn't important.
None of this is.
And then we went off again into the rather chilly Chicago afternoon.
Eventually wandering away, Stan going off to do whatever he was off to, Tom
and I wandered back to the art gallery where we carefully avoided
Eggleston,
in favour of old Chinese Pottery and Renaissance Italian painters.
Did you go where they had the followers of Caravaggio? Stunning work,
and right down the hall from some of the Dutch guys.
I should have stuck with the Eggleston. All that happened was my knee
started to hurt again and the only place to sit was outside that gallery.
OK, now we'll see how many have been scared off by my long winded
writing....
As the subject line says, there are pictures. Fifty three of them, in fact.
http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/pictures/gesos/chicago/index.html
There is some really nice work in there. I have a photo or two of that
alley with the Chicago Theater arrow as well.
Next time I come to Chicago, I'll bring a real camera and some lenses.
I don't know why I carried a whole camera bag up there: I shot the whole
weekend with the K7 and FA35/2AL. I think the photos speak for themselves.
oh, wait...
William Robb
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