Chicago

Skyscrapers reflected on Cloud Gate

Bent light

A distorted world

Cloud Gate

Who's that taking a picture, there?

Blue Cross Blue Shield Tower

Important public notices

Looking back at Cloud Gate

At the Pritzker Pavilion we caught this band warming up for a concert later that night.

I looked them up and found they were a group called "Deerhoof". They actually weren't too bad, though my camera's microphone is crap with the wind. Too bad no one else was there to listen!

Pritzker Pavilion at Millennium Park, designed by Frank Gehry.

Next up: The Aon Center

Looking up 83 stories to a 1136 foot pinnacle

Aon Center

Aon Center

In the Aon Center Plaza: "Sounding Sculptures" by Henry Bertoia

These "musical sculptures" are inspired by the image of Midwestern wheat fields swaying in the breeze. They're hollow and made of thin copper, so when the wind blows the rods make a strange metallic music.

You can also walk right up to the base of the Aon Center.

Looking straight up

1136 feet up

Am I in Blade Runner or something?

Aqua, 859 feet tall, with it's cool undulating balconies

Supposedly this is the largest American skyscraper ever headed by a woman. That actually seems sort of sad.

Metallic deer sculptures I do not know the name or origins of

Looking up between the Aon Center and Two Prudential Plaza

Reflection off a skyscraper

Wrigley Building

Impressive graffiti

Standing at the base of a steel, concrete, and glass canyon

A true existentialist.