Bonnie can be found staring too intently out the window on the red line, trying to play along to "Down by the Riverside" at Old Town jams, or perfecting a left hook to the smell of sugar cookies above Dulcelandia piñata store.
Bonnie Fan
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Sep 25 2015
The Architect’s Dream House
A dreamscape is born when you empty a place of people. Just east of the Beverly Shores Camping ground, a treeline dangling its fall leaves beckoned me and a few friends out of of the water during a camping trip made one year ago to the Indiana Dunes. “This looks exactly like a Hans Christian Anderson fairtyale book,” …
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Aug 29 2015
A Month of Boundaries: Red Line Book Club
Hillel gifted us with this idea of creating a space within a space after he started busting out moves at a club. The audience told him, “You’re a really good dancer!” But rather than rock out to the dance club grooves he didn’t care for, he had popped in his earbuds. The club was just …
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Jul 05 2015
A Month of Preview: Genius Gambler
This month’s theme is “Genius: Be an Inventor.” Unfortunately for me, no genius source of inspiration came readily, until I stopped wracking my brain for ways to make something original and new. I’m going to try to borrow from one of the oldest tropes associated with “The Genius” – as someone who games the system, …
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Jun 11 2015
Gaslighting with Bonnie Fan
For “A Month of Gaslighting,” I went fishing for babies in the Chicago river.
What do you catch with babies, you ask?
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May 28 2015
Girl With a Face Tattoo – A Month of Gaslighting
I used to help out with a comics studio called Sunbros Studios, and this year for the comics convention C2E2 I returned to the booth with Beijing opera-style Monkey King face paint, to emulate the main character of their book Monkey Fist (an adaptation of the Journey to the West tale). Afterwards, I met up …
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May 13 2015
20 Chicagoans Map Chicago
“Excuse me!” “Excuse– oh I’m so sorry ma’am, you’re eating.” “Yes, okay! I’m doing a quick little project here. Can you draw me a map of the Chicago neighborhoods?” For this month’s prompt, A Month of Maps, I briefly considered revisiting a Ghost Bikes of Chicago project, before I stumbled on this crowd-sourced world map, …
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Bad Book Clubs are the Worst, Here’s How Reddit Suggests Your Book Club Succeeds.
The best book clubs are little pockets of happiness in a chaotic world. A place to quench curious minds and to remind people of the importance of shared stories. But, only if done “right.”
