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Ryan

00:02

then I got inspired and have some other ideas to try out when I have time. We'll see how it goes

You working on anything interestin these days?

johnp

wonder what would happen if you shone a laser through it, or had the prism rotating with the laser...might make for some nice light painting

Ryan

I can try it. I have lasers at work

johnp

posted so much personal info :P guess my profile is fairly anonymous anyway

aw thanks @Ryan :D i wasn't dropping a hint haha

Ryan

we used to have a member in Palestine and any time him and I would talk about that and how things are going over there he'd ask me to remove it after

so far nobody has complained I'm a tyrant. At least not lately

johnp

ah nice one :)

i dunno...paranoid of me but my friends both work for two large corporations. They were telling me about the data they access when hiring emiployees...

maybe that's quite normal these days

Ryan

00:31

Last time I photographed that was in high school Photography class on 35mm film

BW cause thats all we did

johnp

aw, nice to revisit it then

is that lens distortion or the building that's curving?

looks well in any case

Ryan

Chase Tower (Chicago)

Chase Tower, located in the Chicago Loop area of Chicago at 10 South Dearborn Street, is a 60 story skyscraper completed in 1969. At 850 feet (259 m) tall, it is the eleventh tallest building in Chicago, the tallest building inside the Chicago 'L' Loop elevated tracks, and the 40th tallest in the United States. Chase Bank has its U.S. and Canada commercial and retail banking headquarters here. The building is also the headquarters of Exelon. The building and its plaza (known as Exelon Plaza) occupy the entire block bounded by Clark, Dearborn, Madison, and Monroe streets. == History == Before the...

johnp

ah cool

Ryan

dont let anyone ever fool you. Chicago > NYC for architecture

johnp

would never have known that

I don't hear of many people travelling to Chicago directly here

just passing through or on a roadtrip maybe

Ryan

00:53

NYC is the world's city. Chicago is America's.

Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Sullivan shaped the world. Mies too to an extent.

johnp

01:08

ah that's right the white city? was it called

are there any remains of it now? i know it was meant to be temporary or something

hmm the wiki refers to an amusement park...maybe i got the name mixed up.dont remember that

Ryan

Windy City

No idea what White City is referring to or what remains you're talking about?

Chicago's World Fair perhaps?

johnp

no... i remember when we watched some modernism documentary there was a discussion about lots of temporary structures and buildings being designed...was a precursor to the modernism movement i think

could be

Ryan

johnp

01:29

where was that...very murky

certainly not FL lol

Ryan

Florida. Outside my window

Its through the toy prism :D

johnp

lol no Vice City sunshine!

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johnp

03:25

just off skype with my friends in Canada for the first time...being a grown-up is poopy

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Vincent

10:32

@johnp You busy March 24, 25 or 26?

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Vincent

11:55

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Ryan

12:36

vimeo.com/180916725

gasta.org/portfolio/gastaloops

@Vincent should really check that out. Maybe an idea for your hex project at some point ^

Vincent

12:51

@Ryan wowza

Ryan

13:09

yeah I'm impressed. It would take me an hour just to come up with a concept let alone 3d model or illustrate it

Guess like most things I overthink things.

Vincent

13:22

that were my thoughts!

Ryan

13:53

smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/…

I need a cool name like The Astronomer.

Vincent

@Ryan you already have one

'Sir Liftsalot'

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PieBie

16:53

Been playing around with illustration in CSS today

codepen.io/pieter-biesemans/pen/jygBEv

maybe shouldn't have tried to make it responsive :s

this link is better: codepen.io/pieter-biesemans/full/jygBEv

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