The Professor’s Process: Misinterpretations #1
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 […]
Monthly Archives: June 2014
The Professor Raves, Rants and Rages Against the Machine
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 […]
The Professor opines on Beauty and Speed
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 […]
The Professor remembers: the Brookfield house
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 […]
The Professor opines on loyalty and the Red Sox
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 […]
The Professor opines on the 3.0CSi
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. […]
The Professor was there: X Games 1999
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 […]
The Professor and the long-gone bicycle
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 […]
The Professor has a soundtrack
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’ […]
The Professor finds a pair
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 […]
The Professor has a dream, writes a dead man
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 […]
The Professor on poetry: appropriated, sampled, stolen
[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 […]
The Professor was there: virtual reality, 1988
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 […]
The Professor opines on hidden history [3DP]
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 […]
The Professor pays tribute to a former student who passed away
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 […]
The Professor looks at the tampon box anew
[“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 […]
The Professor opines on the tree
[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 […]
The Professor / Steven Skov Holt 