Stories to tell

A Smile

What do I remember? I remember a smile.I think it was March. It was still really cold outside, about minus twenty-five. But days were getting longer. The sun was shining. The sky was blue.There wer...

Krasin in the Ice

“We can’t choose where we come from, but we can choose where we go from there.”Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower I took my first breath on the second floor of the hospital on the mai...

How did I become an artist

So, how did I become an artist? I got a call. A phone call.Imagine a modern data center. It’s basically a warehouse with rows and rows of data cabinets stuffed with servers and network switches. Th...

The mystery of “All Along the Watchtower”

“There must be some way out of here,” said the joker to the thief “There’s too much confusion, I can’t get no relief Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth None of them along the li...

Art is a personal gift

I have been thinking recently about what Seth Godin wrote in his book “Linchpin”:“Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn’t matter. The intent does.”For me it is the be...

Dreamer

One early morning on a hot summer day in the year of 2016 something mysterious happened in Chicago. Seemingly out of thin air a young woman and a man appeared at the parking lot on the corner of H...

Chicago Marquee

Chicago Theater on State Street. Landmark and legendary marquee, the symbol of Chicago.That’s how the story goes.One day in 1907 young Barney Balaban took his mom Gussie Mendeburskey to a movie th...

Merchandise Mart

On August 16, 1928 two men stepped in front of the cheering crowd and proudly showed their shovels. Then they tossed some dirt around. The newspaper headline next day read: The birth of the Mercha...

175 West Jackson

175 West Jackson, the Insurance Exchange Building in the heart of the financial district in downtown Chicago. Next to the Chicago Board of Trade and across the street from the Federal Reserve Bank...

Realtor Building

Reflection of the Chicago Tribune Building in the glass facade of the Realtor Building across Michigan Avenue.Originally the Apollo Savings and Loan Building, 430 North Michigan Avenue building wa...