I’m very excited to be giving my second TEDx talk this Saturday. (The first is here, if you’re interested.) Part of what I’m jazzed about, to be sure, is sharing the ideas I’ve been pondering… but what’s also really thrilling is the experience of sitting in the room, getting inspired by so many other great [...]
John Ashbery, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of (among other collections of verse) Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, is often referred to as “a poet’s poet.” This is meant as a compliment; the suggestion is that his work is either particularly pleasing to — or, perhaps, best appreciated by — those who make verses themselves. Ashbery [...]
The following blog post is appearing simultaneously here and on my friend Drew McManus‘ excellent blog Adaptistration. (His version is here.) It’s the result of an earnest back-and-forth we had about the technology needs (and their attendant costs) for arts organizations. As you may know, I consult for Threespot, a large digital engagement agency in [...]
I listen to money singing. It’s like looking down From long french windows at a provincial town, The slums, the canal, the churches ornate and mad In the evening sun. It is intensely sad. – an excerpt from “Money,” by Philip Larkin
Sadly, I have to announce that TEDxWDC — at which I was going to be speaking on Saturday — has been postponed, likely until the spring. I’ll still be speaking, but not for some time now… which means I’ll almost certainly be making an entirely new presentation. Probably for the best, anway.
Well, it seems TED and I just aren’t finished with each other yet. I’ve recently learned that I’m going to be giving another TEDx talk, this time at TEDxWDC. Details are available there at the link, but here’s the high-level outline: the event will be held at The Innovation Box in Anacostia, here in DC, [...]
At long last, and with great relief, I am able to share with you the video of my talk at TEDxMichiganAve. My subject was Technology and Transformation in the Arts, and what I remember most about speaking was the way in which technology utterly failed me: the remote I was using to advance my slides [...]
I am very pleased to be able to share the news that I’m going to be giving a TED talk at TEDxMichiganAve in Chicago at Symphony Center on May 7. This particular TED conference is focusing on how to strengthen and evolve the arts industry; my talk is going to focus on technology and the [...]
I grew up in Baltimore, and one of the opinions you are legally mandated to hold as a native of Charm City is that Washington, DC is a snooty, superior, bland, bureaucratic, sleepy little town without edge, without personality, and without flavor. Having lived in DC now for more than a dozen years, I have [...]
We call out to each other from adjacent rooms. I hear the rasp that carries through the wall, Mama I’m cold Trickle of water wearing away at a stone What if I should die? And not be able to tell Her how to save herself, What sort of call to make In the morning? – [...]
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