Way the El out there.

A little after noon, after slumber that would make rocks envious due to a debaucherous night and a $7.00 beer called Goose Island "Destroyer", I accompanied Gerry to O'Hare International, all the way at the end of the blue line. The trans-Siberian railroad takes only slightly longer from end to end than this ride. After the same ride back to the city, I wandered around trying to find a sandwich shop that was open on a Saturday afternoon. Apparently if the block isn't absolutely full to bursting with hungry office drones, most restaurants can't be bothered to stay open. The only franchise that hadn't gotten the memo was a Subway staffed by two ESL guys.

I was able to catch one of the Resfest presentations, Cinema Electronica, a collection of electronic music videos. This included a South Korean rapper, the guys in Gnarls Barkley comped into musical history footage, a slow-motion video shot at 1000 fps, a procedural animation of single-celled life forming, a whimsical story about a wolf that raises an abandoned mermaid, and a few that I can't really describe. I came away from it with several new ideas about CGI technique. On my way out, I bought a ticket for tomorrow's Radiohead video screening.

After the show, I took a detour through millennium park to see the city at night reflected in the could gate sculpture. Sure enough, there were kids under it dancing around and trying to figure out the shape of the underside. I've never seen a piece of art capture public interest like this.