Last month I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to spend a few days in New York City to sharpen some of my video production skills at the 2011 NY Post Production Conference. Now, whenever I travel to New York, I expect to be somewhat humbled while staring out over the wing of the [...]
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“Ya’ll have no idea how glad I am this place isn’t in your mom’s basement,” I admit with a sigh of relief, moments after opening the door to Karma Tattoo in Talladega, Alabama for a site check. I momentarily question my use of the south’s greatest gift to mankind and the best conjunction in the [...]
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Like everyone else in the world, I just finished reading Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs. It’s very readable, if not a little repetitive. And one point I disagree with got repeated the most. “Steve Jobs,” he writes, “managed to see the big picture while still focusing on the littlest details.” True, Jobs would set [...]
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Phaidon publishes the world’s most gorgeous books. Spend a few minutes on their site and tell me you don’t want to own everything they’ve produced, from the Art of French Baking to the Atlas of 21st Century Architecture to Dieter Rams’s “As Little Design As Possible.” Print, thankfully, is alive and kicking. So when I [...]
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To honor one of the best days on the NYC calendar—Marathon Sunday—I’d like to say a few words about the connection to running and creative. I can honestly say half of all ideas that come to me, come outside of my office. My office is where I do research; it’s a place where I keep piles of [...]
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Perhaps it was a make-good from Mother Nature for the premature blast of winter we had to endure on Saturday. After a February-like day in October, Sunday arrived like a blessing, the kind of crisp fall day that beckons me to football or photography. I did the football thing last week (plus, the Jets had [...]
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106,000 Empty Seats
If I was a student at Penn State, I would boycott this weekend’s home game and encourage 106,000 of my fellow fans to do likewise. Visuals have power, and imagine the power that a wall of empty seats, projected to a national TV audience, would have during ESPN’s broadcast of Saturday’s game. Imagine the show [...]
tags: Grand Jury, PSU
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