Monday, April 20, 2009

Diffferentiation

"Integrated marketing" is a tired cliché. How to be original now that everybody says they do it? It's a duh concept to begin with.

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Global Warming

Things I don't believe: the globe is warming; anybody can really measure whether it is or is not; man makes the earth warm; we could do anything about it if we wanted to; fanatics want to cool the earth and not use the issue to denigrate the U.S.; a warmer earth is a bad thing; people would rather fix real environmental threats than worry about abstract concepts; I'm a luddite.

The high cost of "natural"

Reading about Grey Gardens and its current owners, Sally Quinn and Ed Bradlee in the NYT.

"Ms. Quinn envisioned a garden that preserved the spirit of the Beales' Grey Gardens. 'I wanted it to be wild. I wanted it to be just on the verge of being over the top,' she said. 'I wanted it to look like it happened by itself. I didn't want it to be manicured in any way, because the house isn't that way.' "

Do you know how expensive it is to replicate complete neglect?

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Thin line


The line is razor thin between profundity and banality. And obscurity. An artist I like, Jenny Holzer, proves this point every day with her tweets. Unfortunately, she is banal more often than not.

I'm back

It's been a few months since I posted (or even looked at this site). I don't recognize one single thing I wrote. In fact, I wonder if someone has been posting on my site.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Pentimento

Stuff on top of stuff. Collaboration over time.

More Reality Imitating Clichés


Was driving the other night, rounded a bend: a deer in the headlights. Acted scared, paralyzed. Later, I was driving through the Lincoln Tunnel. Insufferable traffic. Finally, I saw the end in the distance -- the tunnel was bathed in light, the outside dark so it was dark at the end of the tunnel. But same difference -- knowledge there was something better down the road.