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  You know that big red skyscraper downtown? This is inside! (Love that the #building itself is Modernist in the International Style while its food hall is Art Deco.) And with floor-to-ceiling windows you get a close-up view of the L rumbling past (and glorious afternoon #sunlight streaming in). Hayden Hall in 333 S. Wabash yesterday during #OpenHouseChicago. Ready for Day 2 of the annual citywide #architecture festival today! #Chicago #Design #UrbanPhotography #ShotoniPhone #Photography #Photo

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  The prettiest high school I’ve seen! 📚 Founded in 1869, St. Ignatius College Prep is a rare example of a #Chicago #building predating the 1871 Great Chicago Fire. Here’s the 1887-1888 Brunswick Room (ft. elaborate cabinets & woodwork) today during Day 2 of #OpenHouseChicago. #Photos of the Grand Gallery & Foglia #Library at http://www.threads.com/@artistsonthelam/post/Dep0OY-GcEK #OHC2026 #Architecture #Design #Buildings #City #Urban #ArchitecturePhotography #ShotoniPhone #Mobil...

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  I made these! Just a few of my creations from the #Summer session of my Wheelthrowing class. Pictured here are some #porcelain jars 😊 (I promise it's my phone's camera lens making them look distorted in the group shot), #Art #MastoArt #FediArt #Artwork #Artist #Arte #Clay #Ceramic #Ceramics #Pottery #Sculpture #Handmade #HandmadeArt #Glaze #Chicago #Illinois #Midwest #PhotoMonday #FotoMontag #Photography #Photos #MobilePhotography #ShotoniPhone

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  What perfect #fall weather we had to enjoy Open House #Chicago this weekend! ☀️ Not a cloud in the #sky. Here’s the #view from the rooftop terrace of One Pru on Sunday. (It reminded me of a lower version of the one from the Aon Center’s 71st floor observation deck back in 2015.) See how many of our city’s sites you can spot! #Architecture #Design #Building #Buildings #City #Cityscape #Urban #UrbanPhotography #Landscape #ArchitecturePhotography #ShotoniPhone #MobilePhotography #Photography #Photo

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  Just went to a fish boil in Door County, #Wisconsin 🔥 And now I’m stuffed with delicious fish and potatoes and cherry pie and ice cream and there’s ash in my hair and I wouldn’t have it any other way. This is my first time in Door County and now I kind of want to come here every year. 😅 Tonight’s dinner was at The White Gull Inn (established in 1896!) in the bayside village of Fish Creek and everyone’s a total sweetheart 🍒🥧 #Food #Outdoors #Fall #RoadTrip #Travel #TravelPhotography #Photography

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  It’s leaf-peepin’ season in Door County. Yesterday at Eagle Tower in Peninsula State Park, #Wisconsin. 🦅🪾 (Came here twice in the day: first in the early afternoon as our first stop in the park, and then since the clouds cleared later we returned as our last stop after looping around the #park; the last #photo is from that return 😄) #Fall #FallColors #Color #Autumn #Trees #Outdoors #Nature #NaturePhotography #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #Travel #TravelPhotography #ShotoniPhone #Photography

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  #Lake Michigan, I’ve loved you all my life. 🌊 Today at Cave Point County #Park in Door County, #Wisconsin. #Water #Geology #Trees #Outdoors #Nature #NaturePhotography #Landscape #Landscapes #LandscapePhotography #Fall #Autumn #RoadTrip #TravelPhotography #ShotoniPhone #MobilePhotography #Photography #Photos #Photo

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  To the #lighthouse. 🔦 Yesterday at Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal North Pierhead Light in Door County, #Wisconsin. #Midwest #Architecture #Design #Building #Buildings #Lake #Water #Clouds #Outdoors #Landscape #Landscapes #LandscapePhotography #Fall #Autumn #RoadTrip #Travel #TravelPhotography #ShotoniPhone #MobilePhotography #Photography #Photos #Photo

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  I wouldn’t expect any less from the Millennial Weird Al (and tbh I said he’s also the Millennial Christopher Guest—I wore my Spinal Tap t-shirt to drive the point home) but why was this one of the best shows I’ve ever been to?! 😂 Had the time of my LIFE at Kyle Gordon’s show at Subterranean in #Chicago on Saturday #night (songs from his new album #Concert #LiveMusic #Music #Musician #Comedy #Parody #ShotoniPhone #MobilePhotography #Photography #Photos #Photo #Portrait #City #Urban #Light #Color

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  #Dinner a couple nights ago at All Well to celebrate my mom’s #birthday 🍽️ #Chicago #FineDining #Dining #Restaurant #Restaurants #Interior #InteriorDesign #Design #Food #Foodie #ShotoniPhone #MobilePhotography #Photography #Photo

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  Wednesday was the VIP Preview of the inaugural Chicago #ArtFair at the Merchandise Mart! 🥂 It was kind of full-circle because I remember coming to the last Art Chicago here in 2011. And Expo Chicago used to take place in the fall too (it changed to the spring due to the pandemic and then never changed back). Anyway, the best part of course was running into #Chicago art peeps I hadn’t seen in years! Here’s some #art I liked: The Bathory, “The Heart,” #oil, panpastel on wood panel, #MastoArt

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  It’s not every day that you can see Billie Joe Armstrong at the Metro 🧨 Pinhead Gunpowder last #night in #Chicago! Despite forming in '91, they’re on their 1st ever tour & playing outside of the West Coast! So glad I got to see #GreenDay (for my 1st time!) @ Riot Fest last year (for both my & their 1st time @ the #music festival), & now this! (And now I want Foxboro Hot Tubs to tour…) Also, the sheer size of the setlists on stage cracked me up. I’d never seen the...

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  #JessieWare last #night at the Aragon Ballroom in #Chicago! 💐 And just WOW. Cementing her status as the greatest modern-day #disco #artist. 🪩 (More #photos at http://www.instagram.com/p/Ded1lb9FVm6 & videos of “Spotlight” (my favorite from What’s Your Pleasure?, which was my 2020 album of the year) at http://www.tiktok.com/@artistsonthelam/video/7696402692440083742 and “Free Yourself” at http://www.tiktok.com/@artistsonthelam/video/7696415140744318239) #Concert #Concerts #LiveMusic #M...

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  My friend Julia’s in town! #Dinner at Pick Me Up #Cafe 🥣 (Last time she brought me here was ~15 years ago when they were at their old location!) #Chicago #Food #Sandwich #Fall #Autumn #City #CityLife #ShotoniPhone #MobilePhotography #Photography #Photo #Photos

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  Love that Tinashe chose #Chicago to be Night 1 of her “Three Nights with a Popstar” mini-tour (the two other cities in the trio of shows are NYC and LA). ⭐️ Here’s “Crash Out” tonight at the Salt Shed! #Concert #LiveMusic #Music #Musician #Singer #Dancer #RnB #City #Night #ShotoniPhone

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  Inside the Brutalist #church on Wacker and Wabash! (Organist for scale. 🎹) The Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist was one of the stops I visited today during Day 1 of #OpenHouseChicago 2026. This beloved free annual festival (I’ve been going [almost] every year since 2012!) offers access to over 200 architectural gems throughout the #city; get out and explore our beautiful home! (Featuring lovely #fall weather! ☀️) #OHC2026 #Chicago #Architecture #Design #ShotoniPhone #Photography #Photo

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  I've just been announced as a Finalist for the #Urban Photo Awards 2026 in Trieste, Italy! Here's my featured #photo in the international #photography competition: "One Step at a Time," shot on my iPhone 5s in 2015 inside the #Art Institute of #Chicago. Thank you to the Jury, and congratulations to all the other Finalists! #Architecture #Silhouette #MastoArt #FediArt #Artwork #Artist #Arte #Illinois #Midwest #PhotoMonday #FotoMontag #UrbanPhotography #Photos #MobilePhotography...

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  Scale[s]. Xiqu Centre in Tsim Sha Tsui, #HongKong, back in March. I'm delighted to announce that I'm one of the Selected Photographers for the Urban #Photo Awards 2026 in Trieste, Italy! And the competition received a staggering 20,000 submissions! Five of my works have been published in their gallery: #Architecture #Design #Geometry #Travel #TravelPhotography #FotoMontag #PhotoMonday #ShotoniPhone #MobilePhotography #Photography #UrbanPhotography #Urban #City #Cityscape #Building

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  Checked out Confluence at The Peninsula Chicago yesterday since the weather was so beautiful (and still is right now!). The new #exhibition is the latest edition of #Art in Resonance, The Peninsula Hotels' global #contemporaryart program, and this iteration celebrates the #Chicago branch's 25th anniversary. Confluence officially opens tomorrow and runs through the end of May. Pictured #artwork: #Photo 1 - Lola Ayisha Ogbara, "Blue Magic II." (continued below)...

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  Met a celebrity in #HongKong a couple weeks ago. 🐶☁️ Me and Gary, a sentient cotton ball / 12.5-year-old Bichon Frisé I've been following for the past three years, seaside in Tseung Kwan O. Some background (and a heads up if you're a fellow Cantonese speaker): In winter 2022 my mom randomly came across a website where you can stream *tons* of TVB programs (including the #Dog #Dogs #DogsOfMastodon #Outdoors #Sun #Portrait #PortraitPhotography #Photos #Photography #TravelPhotograp...