Found Photos and Cameras

Lose your camera or memory card while on vacation? A new web site http://www.Ifoundyourcamera.net, may have found it! To date there have been nine happy reunions- that's out of more than 60 submissions already posted on the site. Such a simple idea, why didn't someone think of this sooner?

Jason Tozer: Bubbles

Yeah, they do kinda look like planets. How he did it.

SNAP Chicago June 14

This year, SNAP Chicago will explore the Ravenswood/ Andersonville / Edgewater area. Peoplewatch at Andersonville’s Midsommerfest. Take in the beautiful and varied local residential architecture. Check out Rosehill or St. Boniface cemeteries. Dig the flowers at Gesthemane Gardens. Just wander up and down Ravenswood Ave. The area is rich with possibility and you need not be a professional to participate.

More info here.

Jack Spencer

Jack Spencer solo show opens June 6 - July 12 at Catherine Edelman Gallery. This looks like a good one...

Purpose #7

Ryan McGinley Interview

I'm beginning to sound like a broken record... the Bad at Sports crew deliver another killer interview, this time with super hip Ryan McGinley and gallerist Chris Perez.
Check it out.

Chicago International Poster Biennial

(via Design Observer)

The Rather Difficult Font Game

Guess the typeface in this rather difficult font game.
(via del.icio.us)

5 for Friday: Surf's Up

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Artropolis Chicago April 25-28

Shawn Hazen

I'm glad I stumbled upon the website of graphic designer Shawn Hazen today. Shawn maintains a number of cool projects including Chicago Type, Torn Together and The Flavor. He's also the founder of Hazen Creative, a new design studio in Chicago.

Star Wars Urban Photography

(via Digg)

Chicago Eats

Chicago and greasy food go together like deep dish pizza and heartburn. Feast your eyes on these wonderfully weird tributes to some of our favorite dishes.

1. GreaseFreak.com
2. The Chicago Burger Project
3. Chicago Pizza Club
4. The Gyros Project
5. Chicago Hot Dog Pride

(and for those of you readers who said "hey we don't eat meat!" check out PJ Chmiel's Vegan Chicago)

Portfolio Night 6

Portfolio Night 6 is just 32 short days from now. If you are thinking about going into advertising then this is the place to show off your book. Tickets are $30 dollars and going fast. Details for the Chicago event here.

American Horizons: The Photographs of Art Sinsabaugh

Sinsabaugh (1924-1983) made his impact in the early 1960s with a giant “banquet” camera that produced extreme wide-format 12 x 20-inch negatives. He went on to create B&W panoramas of the American landscape—from the rural Midwestern farm to the urban cityscapes of Chicago and Baltimore, the mountains and resorts of New England, and the deserts of the Southwest. (via Coudal)