The Professor Offers Excerpts From an Artistic Life, or Rex Ray X-Rayed
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 […]
Category Archives: Passions
The Professor and One of the Good Parts of Childhood: Swimming in a Stream
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 […]
The Professor’s 1st Foray Into Design Philosophy: “Chaos, Clarity, Post-Credibility and The New International Style”
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 […]
Angularity as Macrotrend: Part 1 @ Sneakers
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 […]
The Young Professor Slept Outdoors Here: Nepaug Reservoir
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, […]
The Professor: Self-Portrait in Products and Brands
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 […]
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 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 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 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 […]
