Entries from September 2008 ↓

Just finished Crazy Love. It was crazy. I recommend it!

A couple weekends ago Mackie (the “Pitbull”) drove himself to Virginia Beach to celebrate his 1st birthday with the family. It was a grand occasion complete with cake, candles, and tennis balls. Rocky Balboa even flew in on his magic cardboard carpet for this special occasion.

This is my dad modeling new comforter, purchased to accompany new bed and new sheets. Bedsores, not me, no more!

Great art and great science involve a leap of imagination into a world that is different from the present. The rest of society often views these new ideas as fantasies without relevance to current reality. And they are right. But the whole point of art and science is to go beyond what we now consider real and create a new reality. At the same time, this “escape” is not into a never-never land. What makes a novel idea creative is that once we see it, sooner or later we recognize that, strange as it is, it is true.

Most of us assume that artists – musicians, writers, poets, painters – are strong on the fantasy side, whereas scientists, politicians, and businesspeople are realists. This may be true in terms of day-to-day routine activities. But when a person begins to work creatively, all bets are off.

Taken from “The Creative Personality” via The New Shelton Wet/Dry

Image by Wang Qingsong

I spent my free Monday being a bum with my dad, we washed our cars and ate snacks. The K is for Kevin, that’s his name! – this photo is from a couple months ago.

Also: Days With My Father by Phillip Toledano – this is really sweet and beautiful, it will break your heart.

This month at work we created the promotional materials for the American Music Festival. This is the big labor day event so we got to do not just a poster, but a ton of ads, a billboard, brochure, even 20ft high banners for the actual event. It was really fun to work on and we got to see Billy Idol! I had hoped to meet him and get an awesome photo, that didn’t happen – he was awesome though, wouldn’t have believed he was 52. Also, his hair was not blonde.