why learning is an never-ending class
July 9, 2007
It’s a class where you can never quite complete the final exam. Write the thesis. Get the diploma.
It’s life.
And how we manage life in 2007 has changed. It’s no longer following the college path like it has for the 2 generations preceding. My parents. And their parents. The path my folks took was the basic 12 years plus college which would yield a degree and that would mean a quote unquote good job.
Now whatever the focus may be in college, most likely the job would NOT be in any similar field. It often looks like it was simply the aquisition of the degree, the stick-to-ive-ness of getting through those 4 years (or more), the showing a sense of completion, Read the rest of this entry »
Calatrava
February 26, 2007
I love the work this artist creates – I am especially fond of the kinetic sculpture in front of the Meadows Museum (SMU Campus).
But he seems to have attracted a great deal of controversy – or maybe it’s just politics.
July 30, 2006 Dallas bridges may be too grand Idea to renew look of skyline hits money snag
By THOMAS KOROSEC
Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle Dallas Bureau
DALLAS – The cost of remaking Dallas’ skyline with a set of tall, white suspension bridges has become daunting, even for a city with the motto “live large, think big.”
Designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, the three proposed “signature” bridges would span the Trinity River as the most visible feature of an ambitious plan to redevelop the long-neglected riverfront with lakes, parks, paths, a white-water course, toll road and better flood control. Read the rest of this entry »
Finding just the right title
September 1, 2006
All thought about; all discarded:
== what does it mean to be an artist
== what is an artist
== how to manage as an artist in today’s business climate
== the condition of being an artist
== how being an artist today is different from the world of the medici
== it was the glory days, the time of the art patron
