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Creativity and good mental health go hand in hand
Here’s an interview with Hilde Østby, author of a forthcoming book (April) titled The Key to Creativity. What really resonates for me and jibes with my own feelings and intuitive understanding of creativity is the reciprocal positive relationship between creativity … Continue reading
Market Street, evening
Taken after work tonight on Market Street, the one-block street that runs along behind the Campus Center at Milwaukee School of Engineering. The bright early evening sun was low in the sky, casting shadows down into the canyon created by … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Milwaukee
Tagged autumn, daylight saving time, Milwaukee, Milwaukee School of Engineering, photography, sunlight
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Lake Michigan, last Saturday in October
I drove up Lake Drive to meet friends for lunch at the City Market in Whitefish Bay on this beautiful, sunny day. All along the route trees were at their absolute peak of color, just an overwhelming display of gloriously … Continue reading
500 tabs and counting down
Does anyone else have a tab hoarding problem? I have a habit of opening tabs on both my computer and my phone and then just leaving them open for easy reference instead of bookmarking them, which requires extra work on … Continue reading
Posted in 500 tabs and counting down, Digital society, Life, Movies and film, Popular culture
Tagged 500 tabs, Busby Berkeley, homage, roller disco, roller skating
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A haiku for October
As I was researching AI and art/text generation, doing prep for tomorrow’s Digital Society class, I came across a website purporting to use AI to create poetry. Skeptical but intrigued, I followed the prompts to enter a noun, an adjective, … Continue reading
“Hoosiers” – Evoking Nostalgia for America’s Midwestern Autumn
Hoosiers (1986) gets Midwestern autumn exactly right, both the beauty of the landscape and the nostalgic harkening to a wholesome, mythic era that has slipped into the past. I love this film’s quiet opening, from its first image of headlights … Continue reading
My own little light at the end of a tunnel
Stayed late at work last night, although not quite as late as this darkness would seem to indicate. Sunset is coming earlier in Wisconsin these days, and the Grohmann Museum closes at 5 PM. I took this picture on my … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Milwaukee, Photography
Tagged Grohmann Museum, Milwaukee, MSOE, photography
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When life imitates art (or, the imperfection of perfection)
I walked into my office in the Grohmann Museum on MSOE’s campus the other day and really liked the golden autumn glow of light reflecting from the locust tree outside my window. Especially appealing was the correspondence between the dead … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Creativity, Life, Photography
Tagged art, beauty, creativity, Grohmann Museum, imperfections, Leonard Cohen, Milwaukee, Milwaukee School of Engineering, photography
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A post for Labor Day
Here’s a Smithsonian article about the Battle of Blair Mountain, a labor uprising from a hundred years ago by coal miners in the hills of West Virginia: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/battle-blair-mountain-largest-labor-uprising-american-history-180978520/ The Battle of Blair Mountain occurred about a year after the Battle … Continue reading
A September haiku
My slightly melancholy ode to the fleeting season . . . September Swallows gathering Morning fog on the water Summer has ended I was looking for a video of swallows gathering to illustrate and found this one. Yikes! Calling Alfred … Continue reading