Learning Aesthetics

Artists tend to worry about formal structure; a bit later critics come along and start talking about material nature and genre.  Normal folks have tended not to worry about such things, being too busy liking or hating to spend much time wondering about the why of it all.  Internet usage may be changing that, possibly [...]

Or maybe better Do Something (Different). It’s always comforting when your thinking is validated by someone who is obviously a lot smarter than you.  The normal sequence is that I get some cloudy idea and worry/write about it for a week or so and then stumble on someone who has worked it all out far [...]

Sort of a follow up. Here’s a link to some of the Do Easy essay and an excerpt: (How fast can you take your time, kid?) The beginner can think of DE as a game. You are running an obstacle course the obstacles set up by your opponent. As soon as you attempt to put DE [...]

A day early and somehow important at the current political moment:

As part of my official job duties I had a mid-morning meeting with the director of the University’s Office of Disability Services. if they are in the market for a website redesign, and we’re in the process of rolling out a new simplified content management system based on WordPress. His enthusiasm for the project was infectious, and [...]

A morning meeting where words like “Social Media Czar” and “social media expert” were getting kicked around. During the follow-up debrief I realized that there’s still a painful lack of historical context, so here’s a reminder link to the Cluetrain Manifesto and 5 (give or take) excerpts below. 1.  Markets are conversations. 3.  Conversations among [...]

Ideally one of the purposes of blogging would be to make connections for your readers or for yourself, but sometimes you just want to take a walk or ride. You might think this one started with the last post but in fact it came from a post on the New York Foundation for the Arts [...]

One of the wonders of life is the encountering of things or people, in this case an artist and works, that you should have known and loved long ago. The providences this instance: “New York City Man” a Lou Reed album suddenly discovered and transferred to the iPod, and listening again and again to “Street [...]

…of mixed messages; you might try: DEQUINCEYJINXIE

…but I’m not sure what it is. Possibly it’s related to why psychics mainly live inlow rent housing or trailer parks. At any rate on November third and fourth there is a free online conference, seminar, something, with a whole bunch of people who are willing, anxious to tell us how to be great leaders and [...]