Beowulf: the movie
Beowulf What calls, from ancient halls, the spirit of that other distant world, far more than a thousand and five hundred years back in the balled skein of time? Beowulf! Palaeography, or the history of the written world has long been a strategic underpinning of what...
Clodagh
I'd met with Clodagh in the 80s. She was starting, I was starting.
Matt Groening
Matt Groening & Tim Girvin: Cartooned life Meditations on careers, creative and titles. I met Matt Groening first at TED, 2007. More often than not, people have said that the big connection that I have with college is cartooning. "Hey, you're from the same school...
What is the question?
You. The question? What mystery found, what box unopened -- what, unanswerable issues -- what comes forth, now found, newly discovered? What are you looking for, what is there to be ? What is that? I've been thinking about this a lot this weekend. What draws me? What...
The New York Times
7 | 9 | 07 The New York Times | explorations of the new edifice. I went to check out the New York Times new building. It's not all theirs, of course. But, it's new. The structure was created by Renzo Piano -- I've long admired his work. Since Pompidou Centre. There's...
slow emotion
7 / 11 / 07 1 | 1000 of a second Slow emotion. Lincoln Center | NYC The scrim from beneath. I was in Lincoln Square, the other night, upper west side, NYC -- and I saw the recent installation by David Michalek. This slow motion photographic dissection of the movement...
tiny retail: Kiosk, shopping personal
What if you could do your own thing, create a retail space of your own? I've thought about that idea, doing just that -- maybe in retirement, whenever that might be. Tim's stuff. And a lot of that there is. But then there's kiosk. Soho, NYC. I met this woman, Alisa --...
Tom Kundig and the studio of Catherine Eaton Skinner
I had a chance to connect with friends Catherine Eaton Skinner, David Skinner and Tom Kundig at the official first public opening (at least that I was invited to) of her space on Capitol Hill, overlooking downtown Seattle. The generous studio opening was a gesture to...
JJ Abrams | Transformer trailer virus
The Transformers trailer virus, Paramount sown...
Kevin Roberts
Kevin Roberts | CEO | Saatchi+Saatchi ww. | Bridget de Socio | creative ronin ---- Monday, May 7, 2007 Inspirational People - Bridget de Socio One thing you can say about working at Saatchi & Saatchi is that it is never dull and it’s mostly fun. And the greatest...