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These nice photographers from Colombia, Juan Felipe and Valeria got arty with our photobooth, and we just couldn’t resist posting their pictures on our blog!
And then these nice folks came in to take pictures for their wedding invites but the machine ate ’em up and never spit ’em out! But here they are. And now we can’t find their contact info! So, nice people, here are your photos! Do you know these people? Pass on the info that their pics are here!
Local mad scientist Matt Bergstrom is constantly coming up with projects that straddle the border between whimsical interest in our city and extremely exact math. He’s created the Build Your Own Chicago Postcards, miniature cardboard scale model kits of Chicago landmarks. On posters, he’s measured and documented the city’s tallest buildings and its doors designed by Louis Sullivan. He’s also documented the city’s Route 66 landmarks, the motels on Lincoln Ave, and the area’s hot dog stands in 3D View-master reels.
NOW MATT NEEDS YOUR HELP!
Matt is set to release a new series of 3D Viewmaster reels documenting abandoned buildings in Chicago, and has set up a Kickstarter campaign to raise the funds to make it happen. Consider supporting this odd documentarian of our fair city.
Check out his Kickstarter campaign: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1709368454/american-ruins-in-3d
Busy Beaver Button Co. celebrates fifteen years of making custom buttons for bands, artists and organizations with the Grand Opening of a pop culture Button Museum and a new Button-O-matic series for vending machines across the country appropriately themed “SOUVENIR.”
The SOUVENIR collection is curated by participating Button-O-matic locations, including Cody Hudson for the Empty Bottle, Tae Won Yu for Land, Angela Finny-Hoffman for Post 27, Edie Fake for Quimby’s, Supercorn for Fly Bird, Joe Lauer for Penelope’s, Chris Corbalis for Strange Cargo, Jason Hammel for Lula Café, Russell Etchen for Domy, Melissa Grubbs for Reckless Records, Soo Choi for Little Branch Cafe, Mei Stewart for Art Supply Warehouse, Alicia Hermanny for Uncle Fun, and Brett Manning for Busy Beaver Button Co.
Join Busy Beaver to celebrate at an opening party with the world’s largest Button-O-matic vending machine filled with 10,000 souvenir buttons, and a showcase of treats from Busy Beaver Button Co. customers like Nice Cream, the Pepperoni King, and Upton’s Naturals.
What: SOUVENIR Button-O-matic Opening
When: Friday, September 10 from 7-10PM
Where: Busy Beaver Button Co., 3279 W. Armitage Ave., Chicago, IL 60647
For more info: http://www.busybeaver.net/
2010 Ignatz Award Nominees were announced, and three of them are wonderful local lady artists here in Chicago!
The Ignatz recognizes exceptional work that challenges popular notions of what comics can achieve, both as an art form and as a means of personal expression. It’s a festival prize that gets awarded at SPX, the Small Press Expo (SPX), in Maryland in mid-September.
The Chicago local ladies nominated for awards are:
Laura Park, nominated for Outstanding Story for her untitled piece in Mome vol 16 (Fantagraphics).
Lilli Carre is nominated for Outstanding Mini-Comic for Don’t Drink From the Sea.
Sarah Becan is nominated for Outstanding Online Comic for I Think You’re Sauceome.
Congratulations, artists!
Click here for a full list of 2010 Ignatz Award Nominees.
Come to Quimby’s tonight at 7pm for Work in Progress!
If you’re unfamiliar with Work In Progress, it’s our monthly creative and social get-together. Bring projects you’re working on, and you can get feed back, give feed back to others, or just work in a social atmosphere. We usually have some snacks too!
Work In Progress happens at 7pm on the last Wednesday or every month, and is designed to help foster the self-publishing community of Chicago.
Quimby's Bookstore · 1854 W. North Ave · Chicago, IL 60622 · 773-342-0910 
