Showing posts with label Chicago buildings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chicago buildings. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Chicago inspiration

So while in Chicago in April, visiting UIC with my daughter, we roamed downtown for a quick feel of the city streets. How cool it is to drive between the towering buildings-a perverse sense of being in a brick, glass and steel forest. I was driving, and this building and it's reflecting windows caught my eye. Don't know why it screamed quilt inspiration when I later saw the image.

 But then I put it into some software and simply cropped it down to what really caught my eye. Kind of a random variation in values. Not real wild about the dark colors, but this may merit some more tinkering in the software. Vary the colors maybe, maybe repeat a window or two to get some consistent patterns.

So I realized these needed to go to the blog so I can visit the idea again in the future.