...at least when you eat a cheap diner!I gotta chuckle when I saw this at lunch today. Actually, I've seen this placemat a couple of times before but I never noticed that the oblisco is superimposed over part of the Chicago skyline.
Anyone that's stood in Grant Park (Grant is in Lincoln Park and Lincoln is in Grant Park, fyi, as a symbol for a "city dat ain't ready for reform!") will easily recognize this distictive rascacielo.
I used to enjoy telling visitors that it was the "Shaeffer Pen Building" because of its peculiar finial. Wikipedia, however, has got a nom de plume that I never heard around town!
Outside of legend, I have it from good sources that this particular skyscraper looks odd for another reason: they ran out of money when building it. One of the reasons it strikes you as weird looking is that it is out of proportion; it was intended to be several stories taller.
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the midget! how i loved that building...
All I can add to your analysis is that as building dwarfism maybe caused by genetic disorders, you should also consider the couple and the obelisco gigantism as another condition on the excess/lack of imagination hormones of the artist.
On the other hand and in the defense of the artist pituitary gland secretions allow me to draw your attention on how easy is to cut and paste...
cut and paste...
cut and paste...
cut and paste...
cut and paste...
it also looks like that phallic looking building is gently penetrating the careless dancer anally !
something to say about shy-anonymous imagination hormones... they work; you´re dirty and right!
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