Aesthetic/Anaesthetic

Aesthetic/Anaesthetic

To start off the year, my colleagues and I found ourselves watching this video yesterday: …a clip that I’ve seen before, and has almost achieved meme status among the sorts of folks with whom I hang in the digital. An excerpt from Sir Ken Robinson’s...

Can You Teach Creativity?

My thoughts on this — if being PSU’s Laureate means that the world will be blessed with more of Staley’s wisdom – in video, writing, whatever — then 2012-2013 is going to be a very good...
The Breakup

The Breakup

Life should not be only about seeking success; art and music reveal that to us. And culture should not be about parading around fund raising galas pretending to understand art one secretly finds meaningless just to appear intellectual or accomplished. One of the worst...

Richard Dare: The Scandalous Failure of Art and Music

via Richard Dare: The Scandalous Failure of Art and Music. Human existence is real and art needs to address that: 47 million Americans currently live in poverty. That means 22% of all children in this country will go to bed hungry tonight. 2.2 million family homes are...