Funky Sights, Blaring Sounds, Street Arts and Entertainment

"Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD." -Psalm 150:6


More sights and sounds from the Windy City.....

Street level art.
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An empty store front establishment on State Street has been transformed into this blooming artwork!
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Another street art (a building front design actually) near the Magnificent Mile on Michigan Avenue.
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City sidewalk decorations for spring 2011 ---tulips and bird houses!
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City sidewalk decorations for winter 2011 to 2012 ---synchronized lights and sound displays for the holidays--- from Thanksgiving to Valentine's.
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...with the historic Chicago theater and its famous marquee as backdrop.
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Some audio clips from the synchronized lights and sound displays on State Street:

(I apologize for the sound quality of these music recordings on here. I only used my handy-dandy cellphone for these so the resulting sounds are not high quality. This is just to give you a sample of what's blasting on State Street every hour of the day ever since those displays were put in place.)

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More audio clips:

And more art!

A bronze-like metal molding depicting a vine.
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Another street "art."
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A funny, wacky addition to a metal gate design surrounding a train station. Guess which are the additions?
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These signs are all over the Windy City all throughout winter. I honestly don't know how to react or what to do about those falling ice! 
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A sculpture outside the J.R. Thompson Center on Randolph and Clark.
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Another street sculpture across the Daley Plaza. My son used to fit inside that red hole. Not anymore!
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A pretty, curvy wooden bench. Too bad it's "useless" during winter.
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A building ceiling design. It's a tile mosaic.
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An ad by Freshii. I haven't tried their food yet but this caught my interest.
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You know those bar codes that you can scan with your smartphone now? This is just one of those. This one is pretty though.
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A CBS Channel 2 reporter doing his thing outdoors in chilly Chicago.
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Street performers.
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They're pretty good!
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That's hard, cement pavement they're performing on. Scary but so much fun to watch!
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Thank you for visiting my blog! Until my next post.....


I actually enjoy doing this! I hope you're enjoying your visit at my photoblog as well. God bless us all!

Welcome To My Very First PhotoBlog!

"This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it." -Psalm 118:24


And this is where it all begins.....

This is the very first landmark that was shown to us when we first came to Chicago. This is where the "heart" of the city begins. It's the point of "origin," the zero mark, it's the 0 North, 0 South State St., and 0 East, 0 West Madison St. The convergence of zeroes in a grid, the center of all of Chicago's addresses.
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Chicago streets are designed to follow grid lines. The whole city runs from East (Michigan Lake) to West, from North to South. Simple, right? From this "star" of convergence, all street numbers are based from here: 0E, 0W, 0N, 0S. So if you just follow the grid, you'll never get lost in Chicago. Believe me, I walk those streets myself, all the time!
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This is the view I see on State Street everytime I go out on my breaks at work.
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Sunny State Street.
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Very sunny indeed!
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More view of the beautiful skyscrapers in the Loop (downtown Chicago).
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The Civic Opera House in Chicago, the home to the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
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I hope you've enjoyed my first photo blog. Please come and visit again, I have more in store for everybody. May my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ be pleased with this "project."

Be thankful for everyone and everything in your life.