Spray paint the walls of Chicago. Four real places every writer in the city knows, alive with people walking past.
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Spray paint the walls of Chicago. Four real places every writer in the city knows, alive with people walking past.
Get it on Meta QuestThe 16th Street rail embankment on a crisp fall morning: bay after bay of murals and tags, a freight rolling along the top, the street dipping under the tracks, two-flats and panaderias across the road.
An alley off Wabash at night: old brick, fire escapes, sodium lights, and the L thundering over the street at the alley mouth with the towers lit up above.
The painted limestone blocks on Lake Michigan at dusk, the old beach house, sailboats heading in and the skyline down the shore.
Under a red bascule bridge on the Chicago River on a snowy winter morning, a tour boat going by and the corn-cob towers across the water.
Cast concrete, Chicago common brick, limestone and river-wall concrete, each with its own real surface for the paint to sit in.
A full colour wheel on X and skinny, medium and fat caps on A. Hold the can still and close, and the paint runs.
26 letters plus stars, crowns, bolts, hearts and arrows. Stick one on a wall, spray over it, peel it off.
People walk the sidewalks, wait at the paleta cart, sit on the benches by the lake and stop to photograph your work. Trains, traffic, the lake and the boat horns keep Chicago moving.
