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Monthly Archives: June 2014

The Professor’s Process: Misinterpretations #1

June 29, 2014by The Professor Leave a comment

One of the creative strategies that The Professor has found to be successful is that of willful misinterpretation [beginning first with the comprehension and interpretation of a subject]. This is […]

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Design Disciplines, Poetry

The Professor Raves, Rants and Rages Against the Machine

June 27, 2014by The Professor 1 Comment

The Professor has recently noticed that his hours and days trickle by slowly but the months and the years feel as if they race by. It’s part of the aging […]

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Design Disciplines, Post-Credible Culture, Post-Market Product Alteration [PMPA]

The Professor opines on Beauty and Speed

June 26, 2014by The Professor Leave a comment

  Over the years, The Professor has been blessed to have beauty come to him in many different forms. The Professor has seen beauty show-up in his professional work, on […]

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Design Disciplines, Passions

The Professor remembers: the Brookfield house

June 24, 2014by The Professor Leave a comment

  The white 1800s farmhouse in the photo is near its end; it suffered from a bad address located at the ugly intersection between capitalism, real estate and zoning. Because […]

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Design Disciplines, Post Industrial Landscape

The Professor opines on loyalty and the Red Sox

June 22, 2014by The Professor Leave a comment

  The Red Sox—the baseball team-nation-empire-floor wax-desert topping that The Professor loves to love, hates to love, and loves to hate [in that order of significance]—are almost to the halfway-point […]

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Passions, Red Sox

The Professor opines on the 3.0CSi

June 19, 2014by The Professor Leave a comment

In this, a golden era of the motorcar, if there was only one vintage auto that The Professor could fix-up, it would not likely be any of the typical choices. […]

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The Professor was there: X Games 1999

June 18, 2014by The Professor Leave a comment

    15 Years ago this month, the Professor headed to the Embarcadero, the roadway that runs along San Francisco Bay, to go to the X Games. It started at […]

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Design Disciplines, Passions, Post-Credible Culture, Post-Market Product Alteration [PMPA]

The Professor and the long-gone bicycle

June 16, 2014by The Professor Leave a comment

The Young Professor’s first good road bike—and by that he means something that he could ride fast and for long periods of time—was from Sweden. It was a Crescent, bought […]

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Design Disciplines, Passions, Projects Previous, Current, Future, The Professor

The Professor has a soundtrack

June 15, 2014by The Professor Leave a comment

You know the real-deal Holyfield, the soundtrack plays while The Professor works even though The Professor’s work is mainly play. As 7A3 used to say back in the day, “gettin’ […]

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Passions, Post-Credible Culture, The Professor

The Professor finds a pair

June 13, 2014by The Professor Leave a comment

The Professor has been onto the sneaker phenomenon since the days of the very early Air Jordans [his graduate thesis project was about deconstructing the sneaker, literally blowing up the […]

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Design Disciplines, Passions, Post-Credible Culture, The Professor, Uncategorized

The Professor has a dream, writes a dead man

June 12, 2014by The Professor Leave a comment

Dear Ettore, Even though I only met you a few times, and even though you have been gone for seven years now [which is why I’m putting this out into […]

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Passions, Post Industrial Landscape, The Professor

The Professor on poetry: appropriated, sampled, stolen

June 10, 2014by The Professor Leave a comment

[graffiti, Basho / consider their collision / roots of my haiku] The Professor has always written poetry—well, at least since the awkward days at Notfittininere High School in rural Connecticut—but this is the […]

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Passions, Poetry, Projects Previous, Current, Future, Readings & Downloads

The Professor was there: virtual reality, 1988

June 10, 2014by The Professor Leave a comment

What Eric Demaine presently is to origami and programmable materials, Jaron Lanier was to virtual reality and the augmentation of human experience in the 1990s. At once its most vigorous […]

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Projects Previous, Current, Future, The Professor, Uncategorized

The Professor opines on hidden history [3DP]

June 7, 2014by The Professor Leave a comment

Often when the subject of 3-D printing [3DP] comes up, especially out here in the San Francisco Bay area where The Professor is based, he finds himself chuckling. There are […]

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Post Industrial Landscape, Post-Credible Culture

The Professor pays tribute to a former student who passed away

June 7, 2014by The Professor Leave a comment

Note :: In the prime of his career, the designer and event producer Miguel Calvo died unexpectedly this year. The Professor herein offers a version of the statement that was shared at […]

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The Professor looks at the tampon box anew

June 6, 2014by The Professor Leave a comment

[“tampon chandelier” courtesy of joana vasconcelos] The Professor met someone in Boise, Idaho who once reported that his Mom regularly used a Tampax® box to hide her best jewels and […]

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Post Industrial Landscape, Post-Market Product Alteration [PMPA], Uncategorized

The Professor opines on the tree

June 6, 2014by The Professor Leave a comment

[image courtesy of the starn twins] When he was young, The Professor thought that trees were superior beings that had evolved far in advance of humankind. It was evident to […]

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Design Disciplines, Passions

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