in the city by the lake

publicportraits:

#Publicportraits #public #portrait #portraits #chicago #cta #urban #city #peopleintransit #streetphotograpy #candid #stranger #strangersintransit www.publicportraits.com

A couple of @nna_shvrs new desserts! (at The Publican)

craightonberman:

I’ll be giving a presentation at the Apple Store, North Michigan Avenue on Tuesday, March 12 at 7pm called: “Bringing Ideas to Life with iPad”

Here’s the little write up:

Multidisciplinary designer Craighton Berman shows us how iPad helps him with visual thinking — the art of representing ideas with images.

I’ll talk a bit about my work, introduce the idea of visual thinking, and then talk about sketchnotes—specifically how I approach them on the iPad.

The timing of this session is coincidentally at the same time as SXSW, where one year ago I took a bunch of iPd sketchnotes, which you can see here. I’ll only be at SXSW for a single day this year, but luckily next Tuesday’s presentation will be in the “theater” section of the Apple store, which will make me feel like I’m speaking at an “important” panel in Austin, instead of the endless winter tundra of Chicago. (love you anyway Chicago)

craightonberman:

ATTENTION CHICAGO: @Sartorialist headed south on Milwaukee Ave. right now. Look sharp.

gawkercom:

Newark Mayor Cory Booker, who has spent the past several days working to clean up his Hurricane Sandy-damaged city, continues to be the coolest politician around. A lot of people think Barack Obama is cool because he exchanges Christmas cards with Beyoncé and plays basketball. And, relative to the staid, ancient, racist, sexist country club members who tend to populate U.S. politics, that is pretty cool! But as an individual case, President Obama is not cool—he is just not the kind of dusty old asshole we’ve come to expect from politics. (My colleagues Max Read and Mobutu Sese Seko have done a nice job of explaining this further here.)

Cory Booker, on the other hand, thus far seems to be the genuine article when it comes to coolness. He’s got a shaved head; he avoids dad jeans; he fights his own security detail to rush into burning buildings and save ladies. On top of all that, as you can see above, he personally tweets at probably stoned people who ask him to bring them munchies. Barack Obama, by contrast, makes awful “Romnesia” jokes on Twitter. 

It is not even a contest. Cory Booker is basically the only cool prominent politician and I can’t wait until he is our next black president.

—Cord

gawkercom:

President Obama comforts a woman in New Jersey whose marina was damaged by Hurricane Sandy.

As the Wall Street Journal’s Jeff Yang put it, “If enough people see it, this is the photo that singlehandedly re-elects Barack Obama.”

[Twitter via AP]

craightonberman:

Announcing Coil Lamp “Ghost Edition” — Limited Edition of 12

In the spirit of all things ghostly, there’s no better day than Halloween to announce the Ghost Edition of Coil Lamp. Perhaps the most minimalist rendition of Coil Lamp yet, the “Ghost Edition” is handmade from a limited supply of the often requested—yet highly rare & elusive—100’ white extension cord. Each lamp will be made-to-order by the designer, and will be ready for the holidays if ordered by early December. And like the apparitions for which it’s named, after the limited edition of 12, the Ghost Edition will fade away and return from whence it came.

(Photo: Michael Kiser)

crosberg:

Just…gonna leave this right here.