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The Professor Offers Excerpts From an Artistic Life, or Rex Ray X-Rayed

February 23, 2015by The Professor Leave a comment

Rex Ray passed away the 9th of February 2015, a scant two weeks ago. Rex was the same age as The Professor [who is still stunned and reeling] so news of […]

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Design Disciplines, History that Matters, Passions, The Professor, Uncategorized

The Professor and One of the Good Parts of Childhood: Swimming in a Stream

December 24, 2014by The Professor 2 Comments

 There’s another part of the story concerning The Professor’s relationship with Nepaug Reservoir [see the earlier posts “The Young Professor Slept Outdoors Here: Nepaug Reservoir” of July 19, 2014 as […]

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History that Matters, Passions, The Professor

The Professor’s 1st Foray Into Design Philosophy: “Chaos, Clarity, Post-Credibility and The New International Style”

December 7, 2014by The Professor Leave a comment

Believing that a design philosophy was increasingly a necessity—and not a luxury as seemed to be the prevailing viewpoint at the time—The Professor decided to set down some of his […]

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Design Disciplines, History that Matters, Macrotrends, Passions, Post-Credible Culture

Angularity as Macrotrend: Part 1 @ Sneakers

November 16, 2014by The Professor Leave a comment

Sneakers again?!? You betcha! See the post “The Professor Finds a Pair” from 13 June 2014 for his previous sneaker pronouncements. Yes, but first the backstory: In 2003 and 2004, The Professor […]

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Design Disciplines, Macrotrends, Passions, Post Industrial Landscape, The Professor

The Young Professor Slept Outdoors Here: Nepaug Reservoir

July 19, 2014by The Professor Leave a comment

The Young Professor spent most of his childhood being outdoors, unsupervised like most kids were at that time in the late 1960s-early 1970s, and generally running amok in rural Canton, […]

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History that Matters, Passions, The Professor

The Professor: Self-Portrait in Products and Brands

July 9, 2014by The Professor Leave a comment

In 1988, The Professor saw the work of Ashley Bickerton at Sonnabend Gallery on West Broadway in SoHo, NYC. It was a revelation. It was neither painting nor sculpture in […]

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Design Disciplines, History that Matters, Passions, Post Industrial Landscape

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 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 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 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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