BECKETT AND MORGAN – TWO PERSPECTIVES ON POSTMODERNISM It may be that some rough beast will slouch again toward Bethlehem. It may be that some natural cataclysm, or extraterrestrial intelligence will shock the Earth into some sane planetary awareness of its destiny. I have no prophecy in me, only some slight […]
ART OPENINGS: Nancy Staub Laughlin & Udomsak Krisanamis
NANCY STAUB LAUGHLIN @ NOHO GALLERY January 9-February 17, 2007 Nancy Staub’s work is technically impressive and uses a unique process for layering imagery. I found her process to be more interesting than the work itself because I had a difficult time relating to her subject matter and color palette. While I am generally fascinated […]
Review: Microsoft Word 2007
Microsoft will release a revamped version of Word on January 30th. According to Microsoft, Word 2007 is the end-product of a gigantic market research effort. “It used to be the loudest programmer won the Word design wars,” says Paul Coleman, senior marketing manager for Microsoft Word. “No more. We built this iteration from years of […]
Procrastination
Until I was around 30 years of age, my preferred way of procrastinating was what I can safely call now the TPOT method. TPOT stood for “There’s Plenty Of Time” and was my way of convincing myself that there was no need to hurry, as there was always another day when the necessary work could […]
Midnight Thought
00:31 And here I am drifting away on my raft into the seas of imagination. Carlos Gardel accompanying me with his intimate voice making love to his music. Thats the nature of tango I would have to say. I leave in about ten hours, ready and packed. The end of another tumultuous semester and I […]
The Lighthouse
It rested softly in her hands, aged and frail. “Do you want to open it now?” asked Angela. Her brother shook his head and looked toward the black cockatoos brutally pruning the eucalypts by the creek. The land sloped down from the house, overgrown shrubs crowding around what had once been an expanse of lawn. […]