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Sunday Feb 12, 2012 The McNay has an Andy Warhol Exhibit. Go by and take a look. Was Warhol an artist, or a very clever promoter? Most of the art looks like a photo graph which was lightly re touched with some paint.
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Sunday Feb 12, 2012 One of my former students Joseph Cohen has become a successful artist. He was an excellent accounting and finance student but even better as an artist. I introduced cinema as an art form Saturday Night at the movie. We will be integrating more comments about art adn design, already a theme here, in…
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Saturday Feb 11, 2012 Here are three very clever ads for a bus company in England, enjoy! Clever – There are 3 separate links. Very Unique Marketing Approach! http://www.youtube.com/v/gBnvGS4u3F0?hl=en&fs=1&autoplay=1 http://www.youtube.com/v/mgCIKGIYJ1A?hl=en&fs=1&autoplay=1 http://www.youtube.com/v/LuVPnW0s3Vo?hl=en&fs=1&autoplay=1
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Friday Feb 19, 2012 Kodak says it will save $100 M by exiting the point and shoot camera business. The improvements in cell phone cameras are making that a shrinking market. The great irony of all this is that Kodak invented the digital camera back in the 1970s. Indeed several of the major DSLR manufacturers like…
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Wed Jan 18, 2012 Morgan's Wonderland is the world's first theme parke dedicated to enjoyment by individuals with special needs. Gordon hartman was inspired by an incident involving his own daughter and her difficulty interacting with other children. Now the organization has been contacted by the Disney folks.Apparently Disney senses the opportunity and or need for…
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Wed Jan 1, 2012 General McArthur never lacked for showmanship. This is the newsreel of the Japanese Surrender. It took place aboard the USS Missouri, one of four Iowa Class Battleships. Here are the things to note about the scene in terms of how McArthur staged it. The Japanese appear in their most formal attire. By contrast…
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Tuesday Nov 15, 2011 We are reading about Total Quality Management. I highlighted Bob Lutz The Car Guy both book and interview in the last post. Lutz makes the point that while TQM is all about designing an electric window lift that works well, it is not all about creating esthetic design that drives people…
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Monday Nov 7, 2011 Here is a description of the Spring 2012 show Touch starring Keifer Sutherland. The plot is pure Stephen King fantasy psycho kinetic thriller. He sounds a bit like the girl in Firestarter or Danny in The Shining. Touch features an autistic son who only communicates mathematically. I don't see a start date…
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Sunday November 6, 2011 As a blogger, I can testify that the web interface for the San Antonio Express News is one of the worst I have encountered. Today's front page story on tech jobs is not on the internet. I usually have more luck hunting a story in the san antonio paper on google…
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Friday Nov 4, 2011 San Antonio is quite a City for the Arts, although on one outside the City ,and particularly in Austin, seems to know it. Consider some current exhibits. Folks go all around the world to see the world, heck you can stay right here and do the same thing. Griff Smith has…
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