April 15, 2007
Feeling Board
Today the weather in the Boston area is rather poor. I remember when considering returning to the United States in 1995 I wasn't sure whether I wanted to live in Los Angeles or Boston. The designer Paul Rand advised me to live on the E. Coast exactly for this kind of crummy weather we are enjoying here; he said the weather in LA would be so good that I wouldn't do any work.
As a Professor involved in digital media technology, I often find myself a few years behind my own students in mastering the state-of-the-art. This may seem like something quite terrible to admit, but when you're busy teaching (or managing) it's rather difficult keeping up with the latest trends. I like to stay active as a builder of technology, so like the tortoise in Aesop's tale I slog along forward at my slowly pace.
For my upcoming show in London at Riflemaker, I am in need of designing a custom computer circuit board. A previous version of myself had mastered this two years ago and he even had his own desk. But he sort of went off to pursue other things and has completely forgotten the art. I've been looking for him for the past two months and I think he's answered my page. I hope he has not arrived too late.
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