Mac Pierce
@macp
Chicago based artist / creative technologist / writer It's an "art project" macpierce.com bgfa.us/artists/pierce
And, much like the rest of the park, it suffers a lot of damage during that time.
It's placement in the back of the stage means that between the approximately 3 week setup and strike of the festival, it gets fenced in and becomes completely inaccessible to the public - much like the rest of the park.
Reading Cones has the unfortunate habit of being enveloped by the annual circus of Lollapalooza, where because of its proximity to Monroe it is fully enveloped by one of the major stages - this year the "Bud Light" stage.
Not too long ago the @chicagoreader.com did an excellent piece about the James Turrell on UIC's campus and how it's falling apart - I'd like to nominate another public sculpture for the most neglected in Chicago - Richard Serra's "Reading Cones" (1988) - located in Grant Park, North of Butler Field
Latest book finished. For better or worse, "Dorito-fication" is now in my lexicon.
On average, just over a thousand people die every hour globally from starvation. Since markets opened, that's over 7,000 people.
Pokemon Go fest is happening in Chicago this weekend and and the phone holders are off the chain.
To play my part as contributor in the ecology of images and my role of photographer/extractor, here's a photo of the my most recently finished book.
Another gem at the bottom - "unexpected boarding events" is a way of saying fare policing - I wonder who that data will be reported to?
Assembling my first ever Gunpla fig and it's insane how well these are designed. This is a whole sprue just for the the translucent eyes.
If you live in a city, everything around you was put there by someone who thought they were making the best decision they could at the time.
Even though I'm off the gram I still have the urge to post my silly little pictures.
Chicago folks - Hosting an open studio tonight with a few artists in my building. 5-8pm, 350 N Ogden Ave. (West Loop)
Go check out the spring edition of Chicago Gallery News, my first piece ever published in print!
Sus. There must have been a dozen different type of camera on this one cars roof rack box.
M16 becomes the primary US Military service rifle in 1964, based off of the Armalite AR-15. It's a distinct gun, for sure - which is why it's a little surprising to see it as a fucking Nerf rifle - FortNite branded no less.
After learning about Meta's planned facial recognition feature for their Ray-Ban smart glasses, called Name Tag, I've decided to delete my entire presence on their platforms, and wrote 2,500+ words on maybe you might want to as well - www.macpierce.com/blog/2026/2/...