literally love it so much and i'm always so happy when i leave there. the america windows are literally the most beautiful sight in real life like it will take your breath away. i had a cameron from ferris bueller's day off moment standing there staring at the america windows with tears in my eyes. and that movie was actually filmed at the art institute! so much to see i love the miniature rooms
5d ago
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i worked here for a few years and often got emotional just entering it (dramatic i know!!), it is just such a marvel, truly emblematic of the city/iconic, visiting the top was always such an adventure, also my fav part was that there are these murals throughout the lobby (mainly the ceiling but also the reception desk wall and in the elevators) that feature gears in celestial formations it is extremely steampunk!!!!
Feb 12, 2024
last term i went on a bar crawl and we only went to the most gorgeous old colleges and it sort of felt like sacrilege walking around there getting gradually drunker. we went to new college and stopped at the tree where they filmed some of the goblet of fire. they filmed some of wonka at the bridge pictured, think he drives a giraffe under here. i got here like a year after they filmed wonka and saltburn so i missed the swathes of people trying to catch a glimpse of timothee/ jacob elordi. begging the next film here stars dominic sessa, i love him. anyway, itβs kind of weird to live somewhere made up of film locations, but it does strike me just how lucky i am to walk past these places every day.
Jan 16, 2025
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book through the Chicago Architecture Center (cool people) or Wendella (tourist-y, u know)β¦ it wonβt matter on this not to be missed, greater-than-the-sum-of-its-parts, with a full service bar, A+++ way to see the city
Jul 3, 2024
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the man the myth the legend. the literal only person i watch on youtube. his vibes are pure and good and his quest is noble.
4d ago
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i'm not sure if you consider more recent classics but as a lit major here are some of my faves that could be considered classics: wuthering heights, pride and prejudice, song of solomon, the crying of lot 49, slaughterhouse five, 1984, hamlet, macbeth, and it's not a novel but the collected short stories of ernest hemingway... many of them are bangers. i'm not a hemingway novel fan but his short stories are often so good
4d ago
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i am trying to be better about just letting myself exist without masking but i've been masking so much my whole life that i kind of don't even know who i am if i'm not masking. but i try to stay chill about it and just know that i am who i am and I AM like idk... i recently started dancing when i'm alone in a way that is kind of more like stimming but i just move my body how it wants to move and that is something that a few years ago i never would have allowed myself to do. it's a process i guess to become more comfortable with just existing as you are. david byrne inspired me a lot to just let myself be myself and not worry too much about the autism bc ppl are either gonna get you or theyre not
May 31, 2025