At a showing of Minions, I found experimenting with my camera’s shutter speed to be more engaging than the movie.
Fractured ticket booth
I started creating fractured images while taking a digital design class at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Here’s a fracture I composed this week using a photograph of the ticket booth at the Wheaton Grand Theatre.
Planes, Trains, and Outrageous Property Taxes
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles is one of my all-time favorite comedies, so my interest was piqued when I learned that a home featured prominently in the film had gone on the market. The house — owned on screen by advertising exec Neil Page, played by Steve Martin — can be yours for the sizable sum of $1.79 million. You’ll also need to come up with $25K/year to cover the property taxes.
Frankly, for any home priced north of $500K, I’d expect a fresh coat of blacktop on the driveway. But, as always in real estate, it’s a matter of location, location, location. The home sits two blocks from Lake Michigan in the tony hamlet of Kenilworth, ranked by Forbes as America’s second most affluent neighborhood.
