Meteors, Skydivers, and Cans: Surreal Chicago Week Day 3

     Back on November 3, there was a strange sight flying over Chicago.  Some people thought they saw a meteor.  Others thought they saw a fireball descending from the night sky.  Here's a video, maybe you can see it for yourself:

     As you can see, the apocalypse is not upon us(so stop the mad dash to the doomsday shelters).  In fact, what it was that night were 3 members of the Red Bull Air Force doing a jump.  The Red Bull Air Force is a team of skydivers who tours the country doing different performances and showing off their death-defying leaps.  They were in Chicago to do a promotion for the Red Bull Art of Can exhibit that ran in Millennium Park earlier this month.  From the 7th through the 16th, the public was welcomed to a special indoor facility on the Chase Promenade where they could see different works of art by various artists.  The catch?  All the art had to be constructed out of empty cans of Red Bull.  Even with the somewhat interesting materials requirement, there were still several very ambitious and interesting pieces that came out of the exhibition, such as a deer head, a swing set, a jeep, and a cobra, all made out of cans of Red Bull.  Both the exhibition and the skydive went well, and certainly made Red Bull's contribution to the city this month very surreal.