Highlights from the Looptopia photobooth

Last Friday glitterguts was asked to set up a photobooth for the MF Chicago/Red Eye party at Looptopia. All of the elements of extreme awesome were there: a good setting, great DJs and VJs. The party was going down in the retardedly opulent Palmer House Hotel. The place was built by Holabird and Roche and at one time was the largest hotel in the world, with just about every room in the place named after one of Potter Palmer's friends, each and every one of them, someone who was instrumental in building this city after the Chicago fire. Maybe that's why the security was so obnoxious, and the whole thing a little less fun than it could have been. The place was fancy, and the organizers were all closeted old ravers who would've happily pounced on the fancy bar at Potter's Place bar if I spread out a dash of ketamine.

There was an RSVP list that was closed early, even though the fierce storms that raged on and off all day should have nullified it, in that the type of people who are responsible enough to RSVP to an event early, are the type of people who are likely to say fuck it when the weather gets hairy. And then there was something about wristbands, which I still don't understand. So they set up a velvet rope, and were real dicks about letting people through it.

It was weird to be on the other side of that rope, and we were right on the other side of it. As part of the glitterguts project, I want to get as many portraits of as many beautiful weirdos as possible, and this fancy ass hotel was full of weirdos, from what seemed like a lounge karaoke party for cast members of Wicked, to the wedding party for what looked like a Hispanic biker gang, to the Underground Art School, another Looptopia party with similarly tight-assed security, thrown by slightly less closeted raver hippies.

Still, we got a lot of good shots of a lot of beautiful weirdos. Props to MF Chicago and the Chicago Tribune for making it happen. You can check out the full set, along with all of our previous sets at the ever-evolving glitterguts.com.

















































Stay tuned for more in the future from glitterguts.com. If you'd like us to rock a photobooth somewhere (anywhere) or if you'd like to collaborate, drop me a line wherever you find me... because everyone loves our glitterguts