by David | Mar 16, 2011 | culture, reading & writing, technology
I was putting away my ducky thank-you notes from Mrs. L’s class when I noticed something else interesting. These kids hand-write something that I thought was only typed: sideways emoticons. Way back in the pre-intertubal age, people might close an informal note...
by David | Mar 15, 2011 | culture, design, media
Recently, I popped in at Lufthansa Studios in Dorchester to see the work of four School of the Museum of Fine Arts MFA students, some of whom had studied with Prof. M. We saw the meticulously constructed coat check installation of Daniel Cevellos and perused Garett...
by David | Mar 7, 2011 | culture, reading & writing
If you watch old movies or collect vintage photographs, you’ve probably faced the thought that everybody you’re looking at is dead. I recently realized that on Sunday nights at 10:30, I’ve been listening to a radio show of ghosts. I should have known...
by David | Mar 3, 2011 | culture, design, technology
You’re probably not reading this on paper. I didn’t write it on paper. At some point in the future, paper will probably be as outmoded as real parchment – the kind made from split animal skin – is today, used mainly for antique forgeries, art...
by David | Feb 23, 2011 | culture, design
I was lucky enough to meet artist Idelle Weber at an event at Tufts University’s gallery for the traveling show, Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958-1968. I won’t be the first or the last to note that Weber’s suited silhouette men (and...
by David | Feb 20, 2011 | culture
I am a cartography nerd. I like maps. I like globes. I like pondering questions like “what countries have land borders with just one other country?” (There are 17 such nations, including two mutual pairs and two Italian enclaves. How many can you name...
