Adler Planetarium

Last Friday I went to what could be my new favorite place in Chicago. The Adler Planetarium, which is America’s first planetarium. The place is just AMAZING!Its location gives you a beautiful view of the down town “from the water”. The building itself is great too. It has an amazing store that sells all kind of stuff in stars or planet shapes (I got a GREAT t-shirt of the constellations that glows in the dark).

The show that I saw is call Sonic Vision and is a groundbreaking digitally animated alternative music show. Sonic Vision takes audiences in the Adler Planetarium's StarRider Theater on a mind-warping musical roller-coaster ride through a fantastical dreamspace. With a mix by Moby and featuring tracks from Radiohead, U2, David Bowie, Coldplay, Queens of the Stone Age, Prodigy, The Flaming Lips, Fischerspooner, Spiritualized, Audioslave, Stereolab, Boards of Canada, David Byrne and Brian Eno, Goldfrapp, Zwan, White Zombie, and Moby, the music ignites this one-of-a-kind computer-generated musical and visual experience, which uses next-generation digital technology to illuminate the Planetarium's dome with a dazzling morphing of colorful visions.

It was AMAZING, I highly recommend it. I can’t wait to see all the other shows they offer. My biggest desire is to sleep in the planetarium which, believe or not, is possible. The catch is you have to find 50 more people who want to stay there with me, in order to rent the place!! Here is the view of the city from the planetarium!!