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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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, […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]