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Attending Lollapalooza requires some planning; with an estimated 100,000 attendees descending upon Grant Park each day, merely maneuvering through the masses with friends presents a challenge. Some folks carried markers to help friends locate them from a distance—a flag from, say, Ireland or Brazil would pop up in the middle of the crowd, as did the blown-up cut-out face of Honey Boo Boo or Nicolas Cage (circa Vampire’s Kiss). The latter were also certainly designed to attract the attention of complete strangers, but it wasn’t just people waving pictures on sticks who sought to catch the eyes of attendees they didn’t know—folks came dressed as Power Rangers, a handful of guys dyed their goatees blue, and one dude appeared to be so far from his last laundry day that he’d run out of every item of clothing except a neon-green thong. Even wearing next to nothing required some strategizing.
