The best way to see Chicago skyscrapers might just be from a gondola on the ferris wheel at Navy Pier.

John and I ascended to see the late Friday afternoon skyline, which John perhaps would have preferred to see from the ground,
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On Thursday, I sat in a converted U.S. Army building in San Francisco surrounded by designers, deep thinkers, and other brainiacs, thanks to my friend Amit Gupta (he started the Jelly casual coworking movement and runs the photography newsletter of awesomeness Photojojo) who gave me his extra ticket.
To be more precise, I actually “won” [...]