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 […]
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The Professor, Lunch and the Essence of Hartmut Esslinger
Memories are never simple—as authors as different as Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Primo Levi, and Dave Eggers have shown in their writing—but The Professor’s aim here is somewhat different: to reveal the essence […]
The Professor Was There: Virtual Reality, 1988, Addendum to Jaron Lanier
The Professor shared an interview he did in 1988 with Jaron Lanier in a previous post “The Professor Was There: Virtual Reality, 1988” [10 June, 2014]; that post is at: […]
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 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 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 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 / Steven Skov Holt 