Large curious art in the Crystal Court

A comic art show called Know More Funny Business  is currently evoking aesthetic ha-ha's in the the Crystal Court of the IDS Center.  It is part of the Minnesota Benefit Art Association exhibit, and the artist Peter Geyen provided the several metaphors.  This is a pie with blue filling tossed at a wall of Buffalo head trophies.  I am working it out.

reach for the sky

This beast seemed to be peeking into the skyway.  Watching the human ants in their antfarm?

Urban Archeology

This looks like an archeologists dig somewhere in Egypt, but it is just the walkway from the parking ramp to the elevators caught in the celestial alignment of rising sunlight on an early November day.

From the chronicles of product placement

I'm not talking about the "American Idol" judge placement of Coke product here. I am talking about the owner of The Simple Sandwich sitting under his restaurant sign in the Fifth Street Towers. Jay Axelrod, middle, joined David, left, and Mike and me, the skygeeks, pre-Halloween to chat about the rewards and challenges of small business on the skyways.

Quintessential skyway photo

This photo just shouts "skyway!" to me.

Street life seeks revenge on skyways

After years of oppressive subordination to the insolent skyways, the Minneapolis streets banded together and appointed the Nicollet Mall as their team lead in taking back the downtown. Starting with colorful little huts on wheels, the campaign to "Make it Real, Make it Street" kicked off this Autumn to the surprise and delight of ones of bystanders.

Minneapolis

A Minneapolis moment on the Stone Arch Bridge, Oct. 2010. Click for the mystery, click for the wonder.

Transition

From the Energy Center Parking Lot, looking toward the Accenture Plaza. Our Autumn is fabled, a chromatic performance denied to our Southern friends and family, and we try to share with snapshots or leaves pressed between wax paper sheets. This year the shift was disjointed, and punctuated by sudden pressure drops that set new historic lows for the region, bringing devastating winds and unseasonal rain. It sent some people scurrying to the comfort of prophets, others to Home Depot to stock up on generators and plastic tarps in anticipation of blowdowns, or blackouts, or Mayan prophecies coming true.

Campbell Mithun building

Looking across the mezzanine toward D. Brian's Sandwich shop in the Campbell Mithun building. This space swirls with color and life, a bright nexus of commerce and business in the skyway system.

Halo sighting at Campbell Mithun