Where in the World is Earthquake Dude!

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Remember Earthquake dude from last year? The slightly crazed guy that made odd random comments?

I was reminded of him when I was reading that the small tremors that the Midwest feels from time to time (I never feel them) are actually aftershocks from the New Madrid Quake, the largest earthquake ever recorded in the U.S. which happened in 1811. It seems mid-continent quakes are different then continental edge quakes. The edge quakes are from "fast" moving continental crusts and their aftershocks come rather quick. Mid-continent quakes happen where nothing appears to be moving and thus their after shocks can come centuries later.

So when there is a tremor in the middle of the country it is not that things are starting to get active underground. Actually, it's teh other way around and mother earth is settling in, sort of getting comfortable.

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I finished my mural (actually mosaic I suppose) photos from the Capitol. When I started taking photos of the Cap I sort of felt . . . why bother. We live in a University City with hundreds of young bright photographers, what could I possibly take that has not been done a thousand times before. It's not like the Capitol is a secret or anything.

ANYWAY - here are the four mosaic that Kenyon Cox created in 1913 for Wisconsion.

Yes yes you are totally correct - it looks that the Gov Me Ernnt one needs to be a little desaturated.

Kenyon Cox was born in 1856 in Ohio and studied art in Cincinnati but soon learned that Cinci was not the best place to try to make it in the art world . . in 1856. So at the age of 21 he moved to . . where else . . Paris. He moved back to New York about 10 years later where, to pay the bills, he became a magazine illustrator.

Along the way he started to write art criticisms for the paper, again to pay the bills.

Without going into this too deeply, he certainly did love to draw the ladies!! I wonder if this continued when he got married.

He started painting murals in 1893 for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago and continued painting murals in the courthouses in Des Moines, St. Paul and Madison.

The only thing I can find about the mosaics in the Capitol was that he made "numerous" mosaics. He died in 1919 from pneumonia.
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I have a Main Street Org meeting tonight, maybe I can dig up some good gossip - it's been sort of boring in Columbus lately. We need some more controversies.

OH - if any of you are out and about Saturday 3:00 to 5:00 stop in at Cannery Wine and Spirits in Sun Prairie as I will be in the middle of a Five Rivers Wine tasting and have some artwork on display. It'll be a few days too early as I'm getting eight canvas prints in NEXT week but I'll have some cool photos that don't suck on display!

FREE WINE!

Happy anniversary George and Laura Bush - I don't care what you think of the guys politics (I pretty much thought they stunk but that is just my opinion), love is love. They met at a barbecue in 1977 and went miniature golfing on their first date and were married three months later in a small, modest ceremony.

Two people in love is always a good thing no matter who you are.

Forgot - the Packer Viking game - NEVER in the history of the NFL has a game ended at 38-26.

Have a great Thursday

Rod