Volume 126 Issue 2
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Only Chicago sections off its busiest quarter and provides its picturesque skyline as the backdrop for three days of the best music acts in the business. And as far as festivals go, Lollapalooza is the can't-miss event for Kansas students looking to close out the summer on a high note.
"It's my favorite weekend of the year," said Jason Wenk, a senior from Chicago. "It's a great atmosphere where you can see all types of music. Grant Park is a beautiful place to have a music festival."
This year the lineup included the likes of Mumford and Sons, the Killers, 2 Chainz, Major Lazor, Steve Aoki, Dillon Francis, Two Door Cinema Club, Alt-J and the Lumineers, just to name a few. Which brings out the only negative aspect of Lolla: you want to do everything, see everything, hang out with all of your friends, who have no doubt split off into many groups, and you try to be at the right stage when it matters most. An impossible feat on even the least populated of days.
And yet in the early stages of the festival it all seems feasible.
You enter the park on Friday morning while the grounds are still bright green. The park not
yet destroyed by the hundreds of thousands that descend on it for the annual festivities and you're looking for that first moment that makes you feel as if you've left planet Earth, shut off every priority you had and can just float and hum along with the beat.
It's somewhat overwhelming to dig
"It's a great atmosphere where you can see all types of music. Grant Park is a beautiful place to have a music festival."
JASON WENK Senior
into. From the art fair to Buckingham Fountain to the eight stages at Grant Park, one just slightly within earshot of the next, it causes you to wonder: "Is this band good enough right now?" and "Boy, they sure are rocking hard across the way, maybe it's time to check that out."
Jason Wenk let his curiosity get the best of him that first night, ditching a spot at one show to try and fall in with the next.
"I regret leaving the Killers halfway
through to go to Steve Aoki," Wenk said. "I ended up leaving Aoki five minutes into seeing the set and left the festival"
Had Wenk kept his post at the Killers' set, he would have witnessed the chorus of "Soul-diers" serenading Chicago during an encore performance of the song "All These Things That I've Done." One of the not-so-rare moments when the crowd at Lollapalooa morphs into a mass of manias combined for a common cause.
Instead, Wenk made his way over to Perry's Stage, centered at the crossroads of Balbo Avenue and Columbus Drive. The place that plays to one genre and one genre only: electronic dance music.
You know you're getting too close to Perry's when the crowd starts to look younger, clothing becomes more optional and the thumping bass overpowers any conversation. Perry's combines the ultimate dance party with the ultimate people-watching position.
Teenage girls draped in tutus from their youth - or someone else's
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CONTRIBUTED PHOTO/ WILL RICE 2 Chainz performs during Lollapalooza 2013 in Chicago on Aug.4.
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Mumford and Sons plays during the second day of Lollapalooa on Aug. 3 in Grant Park.
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in Lawrence
early August,
but Friederich
says he's happy
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aside and just do what he loves. "It's been awesome being on set because that's my element," he said. "Especially coming from pre-production where you have to internalize and visualize everything, it's great to be able to do tangible things like move a camera or set up lights now."
WILL FRIEDERICH Co-writer and -director
to finally put the financials aside and just do what he loves.
"A lot of the ideas behind this movie saved my livelihood at one point or another, and seeing
McGinness says they are nearly done shooting the film and have begun the editing process, which has been the most rewarding part of production for him so far.
"We both have strengths in entirely different areas and weaknesses in entirely different areas, but that's okay," he said. "He's had to teach me how to nail things out and get things done in a timely manner, and I think I've taught him a lot about visuals and things like that that are very important."
"God, Grant Me" was partially funded through Kickstarter, a fundraising website that allows people to donate to various projects, but the project only receives the money if it's predetermined goal is met by a certain deadline.
directors have had to learn to adjust to each others differing styles.
"GOD, GRANT ME"/KICKSTARTER.COM
"God, Grant Me," a film created by two Lawrence residents, is currently in production. The duo reached their fundraising goal of $4,500 on Kickstarter in July.
The film met its goal in the last hour with 69 backers donating a total of $4,530. One of those backers is Michelle Leatherby, a graphic design student at the University from Fayetteville, Ark. As a photographer herself,
she said it was important to her to help fellow artists see their work come to fruition. "I think it's important as an artist to support other artists work, even if it's a completely different field," she said. "It's just nice to
be able to help other people with their projects, because I believe if I had a project they would help fund it as well. It's a real give and take in the artist community"
McGinnis and Friederich plan to finish and submit the film
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in early November to various festivals, including South by Southwest. If accepted, they hope to debut it in Lawrence this spring.
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