We are so proud of our fabulous clients, Maven, for the success of their launch party this past Friday. It was a wonderful event for the PR duo of Renae Placinski and Sarah Vargo. Their many clients and associates all came to the glamorous turn out at the Galleria Unico followed by the amazingly fun time at the beautiful new la Passage. It was an all around great turnout and a lot of fun to be at. Thank you Sarah and Renae for throwing such a great launch party and we wish you the best in your endeavors. Interested in what Maven can do for you and your business? Check out their brand new website, designed by blueye of course, here.

Over the weekend I attended an art show at my friends’ gallery, Oh No! Doom. The exhibit was called We Need Each Other. 40 Chicago area artists represented what ON!D are calling Chicago’s Collaborative Imagination. Each artist was given a sketch of the next artist’s work and were to make sure that each piece would fit together once placed next to each other on the wall. I spoke with Joel ‘Chips’ Estrada a month before  the show and he mentioned that they were somewhat nervous yet excited as to how the how piece would turn out once everyone’s work was turned in and fit next to each other. The result, a masterful concept came to life before your eyes! One would have never known that these artists didn’t have more than a simple sketch of what the works of arts to the left, right, below and above them would look like and how they would connect. The tiled piece was virtually seamless and the more your eyes scanned over the piece, the more the pieces would unfold in front of you. Some tiles appeared as if they were about to leap off the the wall and grab you. This is a great collaborative effort and the pieces will be up in the Oh No! Doom gallery until November 11th. If you have a chance, take the time out to stop by and visit.

Oh No! Doom Gallery is located in Logan Square:

2955 W. Lyndale St.  (corner of Sacramento and Lyndale)

Chicago, IL 60647

Hours:

Thursdays 7PM-10PM

Saturdays 12Pm-4PM

If you don’t have time and want to catch a small glimpse of how the show turned out, check out their images on Flickr.

So I was reading TechCruch this morning and there was an blog about the soon to be launched, mufin.com, (abbreviation for music finder) an automated music recommendation site. As an avid listener to Pandora, (an online radio station which allows you to create stations based on an artist or song of you choice) I was excited to hear about another potentially awesome and easy to use music site. I was able to get an invitation code from the TechCrunch blog and register. Although they are still in Beta testing, you are able to check out the layout, kind of test things out and see if you like it. It is supposed to be the best, most accurate music finder out there for matching songs to a favorite artist or song. I typed in Daft Punk and it lists out all of the possible songs and versions of those songs, you select one and it then pulls from its database all of the songs that you may possibly like. I selected “There’s Something About Us” and then Mufin listed out songs similar to that song and gave me a percentage of how close to the song they relate. mufin bases their music matching on over 40 characteristics of a single song to effectively match songs that users would like. A few characteristics are genre, tempo and sound density. It’s pretty cool that there is a music algorithm site out there with truly matching songs to what you might like, not matter how well known the artist or song may be. What’s even cooler is that they are launching widgets for both Myspace and Facebook so that you can check it out without leaving your favorite social networking site! Song other music sites, including my beloved Pandora match some pretty random songs with your selected artist. If you have a chance, I encourage to read the TechCrunch article and check out mufin.com

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