Kitty Kites Krazy Flying

It was a beautiful day in the park today before the storm came. Esteban and I went out before it rained with our kitten Alaska, and we flew our kite in the park. It was a gorgeous Chicago skyline we had in front of us, and the rain soon brought beautiful rainbows for the remainder of our day.


The summer is here...so fly.

Looptopia

On May 11th at 5:00 pm marked the start of Chicago city event Looptopia, a dusk-til-dawn evening of theatre, music, spectacle, visual art, late night shopping and so much more, all in downtown Chicago's Loop District. The event was hosted by the Chicago Loop Alliance, Looptopia boasted an extensive schedule of events, with programming that appealed to people from all walks of life.


Some scheduled events included:


Live concerts, comedy improv and dance performances throughout the Loop
Art and design exhibitions that include do-it-yourself mural projects
Opera Idol hosted by the Chicago Opera Theatre
An outdoor silent dance party that uses individuals headphones and live-feed video projections
Shadow games with large scale projections and puppetry performances
Special restaurant and hotel offers
Miss Looptopia pageant, featuring local drag celebrities
Yoga classes
Knitting circles
Late night retail shopping
Docent-led architectural tours from dedicated elevated trains conducted by the Chicago Architecture Foundation



Below is a picture of some men cheering on Chicago's Looptopia 2007 in the front of Millenium Park:

These next photos are of a party that actually happened beneath the Anish Kapoor sculpture entitled "Cloud Gate" it was so crazy:


And lastly, you can see the immense crowds that walked the streets that night: