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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The Hot Girl Game is Best Played with Women You Trust. (A Bad Feminist Story.)
“Dan, do you want to play the hot girl game?”
Valarie is one of my oldest Chicago friends and she is coy with sly winks, and surprise happy shouts you come to expect. This mirth is tempered by the…
Reasons I Don’t Use the Word Feminist Out Loud
Growing up an early Millennial all my female friends would say, “I’m not a feminist.”
This would follow a string of feminist beliefs they did hold. And I’d say, “Yeah. I’m for all that.” And they’d explain, they didn’t like the…
Today's the last day of my Easter holiday and I'm going to make it a build day.
After probably 25 years of thinking about it, I'm going to finally build myself a website.
Will update this thread as I go.
I am addicted to rock climbing and I hate every minute of it.
For years, I’d poo-pooed rock climbing.
Why wouldn’t I go running instead?
Now that I’ve tried it… I know… running would be way healthier and more efficient. (Swimmers are giving me the, “If you really want a…
