spring!

Come See Me @ The Weirdest Show on Earth! This Friday!

50 ALDERMEN/50 ARTISTS: A Group Show
OPENING RECEPTION: 7-11 PM March 19th, 2010///Preview 6-7 PM
JOHALLA PROJECTS//1561 N Milwaukee Ave///2nd Floor///Chicago, ILL.

How many Chicagoans know what their alderman looks like? How many Chicagoans can tell you who their alderman is, and what he or she has been doing lately? We’re not pollsters, so we don’t have any hard data to provide answers to these questions — but we are artists, and we’re interested in using art as a vehicle in depicting and learning more about the aldermen who represent us at City Hall. To this end, we invite other Chicago artists to join us in producing 50 ALDERMEN/50 ARTISTS: A group exhibition of portraits that will enable people to learn more about the 50 aldermen who make up the Chicago City Council, and raise awareness of local government. On Friday, March 19, 2010 from 7-11pm, Old Style proudly presents 50ALDERMEN/50 ARTISTS at the Johalla Projects Gallery, 1561 N. Milwaukee.

And here is some of the press i got!
Chicago Tribune
Chicago Free
Chicago Current Article

the other day i was sitting at the two way and scott had a work meeting so i was zoning out and i heard this song and it just blew my mind

Opening @ THE HILLS this S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y!

Frank Van Duerm's Solo Show "Symbols/Souvenirs" opens this Saturday from 7-10 PM @ THE HILLS ESTHETIC CENTER (a gallery I run with my friends). You should definetly come to this one, and bring some CASH...its a store.



THE HILLS ESTHETIC CENTER
128 N Campbell Unit G
Chicago, IL

For Roxie

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Rogue waves (also known as freak waves, monster waves, killer waves, and extreme waves) are relatively large and spontaneous ocean surface waves that are a threat even to large ships and ocean liners. In oceanography, they are more precisely defined as waves whose height is more than twice the significant wave height, which is itself defined as the mean of the largest third of waves in a wave record. Therefore rogue waves are not necessarily the biggest waves found at sea; they are, rather, surprisingly large waves for a given sea state. "Rogue waves are not tsunamis, which are set in motion by earthquakes [and] travel at high speed, building up as they approach the shore. Rogue waves seem to occur in deep water or where a number of physical factors such as strong winds and fast currents converge. This may have a focusing effect, which can cause a number of waves to join together.

A hundred-year wave is a statistically projected water wave, the height of which, on average, is met or exceeded once in a hundred years for a given location. The likelihood of this wave height being attained at least once in the hundred-year period is 63%. As a projection of the most extreme wave which can be expected to occur in a given body of water, the hundred-year wave is a factor commonly taken into consideration by designers of oil platforms and other offshore structures. Periods of time other than a hundred years may also be taken into account, resulting in, for instance, a fifty-year wave.