Archive for June, 2008
Lines and Colors
If you follow just one art blog, make it Lines and Colors. Charley Parker is an art critic and a tireless blogger, who examines a featured artist almost daily. In truth, he publishes so much material that it is hard to stay current. In particular, I enjoyed this recent piece on John Singer Sargent, [...]
Hobos
The Life of American Vagabonds is a short collection of photos that depicts a group of young people living outside of the borders of society and off of its discards. The portraits are gripping.
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Saturdays
The city sleeps in on Saturday. In June the morning comes early, by seven thirty – my daily rising hour – the sun weighs upon the red tiled rooftop of the school building across the street and the leaves glisten below its brilliance. It is already hot at the stool by my window onto the [...]
Galveston Gold Mine
I am working on a design and integration project from a company that is involved in “natural resource procurement”. This firm is a start-up company and needs (among other things) staff to manage their operations and equipment. Oh, and they need big-ass trucks – lots and lots of million-dollar trucks.
One of the design challenges I [...]
El Chorro Gorge
This video is taken from the dizzying heights of a decrepit walkway above the El Chorro Gorge in Spain. The footage truly scares the bejesus out of me. It is like that recurring nightmare I have where I have to make my way along an impossibly high and narrow ledge with only inches separating [...]
The Billy Letters
Radar Magazine has a fascinating article comprised of letters written by pop-culture historian Bill Geerhart to America’s most notorious serial killers and their written replies. Geerhart posed as 10-year-old “Billy” Geerhart to ask advice on dropping out of school from such infamous murderers as Charles Manson and the Unabomber. All of the inmates that Geerhart [...]
Ye Olde Edicts of Britannia
The lone english language bookstore in Old Prague sits on a lightly trafficked side street below the Prague Castle between an art gallery and a river front restaurant. They carry Harper’s Magazine at an unreasonable markup of 190 K? (12 USD). Though buried in a cardboard box on the floor, I found a few old [...]
The Voice that Smiles
I designed this advertisement yesterday morning for my father, who is a radio announcer in North Carolina. The process was really enjoyable for me – in part because I had total control over the finished product, including the copy. I also established my time commitment to this effort early on, so I operated entirely under [...]
