Environmental Encroachment: Let’s Get Honky
I’ve previously mentioned the extreme DIY energy of Chicago. Though it was not an especially active weekend, I found myself attending and documenting a number of great examples of this spirit of motivation. Friday night was the HONK Festival send-off party for Environmental Encroachment, a Chicago-based ‘magic circus marching band’ and performance art group. EE played and sold merchandise in a gallery (with a great display of abandoned or lost Chicago architectural relics) in the famous Flat Iron Building until they took the party to the ... {read more}