Archive for June 2004

In General on 29 June 2004

For a while I’ve thought of Art as an Experience, but lately I’ve been thinking Art is an Attitude. Recent random examples of global street art and online comic artists doin’ it for themselves seem to support this outlook. More to follow…

In General on 24 June 2004

I’d like to be able to assign a star rating to individual artists and not just individual songs in iTunes.

In General on 23 June 2004

I continue to be amazed at the versatility of the deceptively simple Omni Outliner app which came bundled with OS X on my Mac. It makes creating heirarchical and bulleted lists very easy, and creating columns with status messages, times, or checklists is a snap. I’m well aware of the Perils of Powerpoint oversimplification, but [...]

In General on 23 June 2004

My favorite movies right now are Screwball Comedies from the 1930s: The Thin Man, Twentieth Century, Philadelphia Story, Bringing Up Baby, Trouble in Paradise, His Girl Friday, My Man Godfrey, Arsenic and Old Lace, You Can’t Take it With You, The Awful Truth, Holiday, to name a few.

In General on 18 June 2004

During some morning reflection about a recent art event put-on by some acquaintances of mine, I had a realization. At the time, I opted-out of participating for reasons that were (then) hard to verbalize. The organizers were shooting for a one-off, gigantic event that would make a ‘Big Wow’ splash in an otherwise ho-hum cultural [...]

Inelegant Documentary

In Reviews on 18 June 2004

Last night I watched two thirds of the PBS documentary The Elegant Universe on DVD. It’s based on the best-selling book by Brian Greene, a specialist in quantum field theory, and deals with ‘Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory’. I’ve been meaning to read the book for some time (before or [...]

No plans.

In General on 17 June 2004

One of the biggest obstacles in my creative life is my tendency to need a plan. As in: ‘Master Plan for Boundless Success and World Domination’. The trouble is, I’m often slow to begin a new project or lethargic to complete a current one if it doesn’t fit into some such Master Plan. I think [...]

Currently Reading

In Reviews on 17 June 2004

As part of my personal summer reading program to get more acquainted with literature from the 1920s and 1930s, I’m delving into work by writers associated with The Harlem Renaissance period. Currently, I’m pages away from finishing Passing by Nella Larsen, a short novella about two young, African American women living in the late 1920s. [...]

In General on 16 June 2004

Some days, my mind goes numb from staring all day at the computer monitor in my office at work. I need to read more books and be outside.

"I'm not a Plonker"

In General on 15 June 2004

I love the BBC Comedy series The Office, and have both seasons on DVD. A couple of months ago, I downloaded (from file-sharing-space) parts one and two of The Office Christmas Special (as yet unavailable on these shores). Lately, I’ve been having a heck of a time converting the files (one’s an MPEG file, the [...]

Creative Suite? Creative Sweet!

In General on 11 June 2004

Much of my daily work involves designing and maintaining web sites, using apps like Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 & Fireworks MX, Adobe Photoshop CS with ImageReady, BBEdit, and phpMyAdmin. But, these days what I want more than anything else is to move back into print identity design — logos, brochures, posters, flyers, and collateral materials [...]