Kick-Start the Weekend
Posts to kick-start the weekend, usually with musical content.
Stop Making Sense
Yeah, I know this is an old song by The Talking Heads, but I just have to add a little revelation that I just discovered while on my recent trip to Rhode Island. I was talking with one of my digital pre-press gurus, Phil, who went to school at RISD, where David Bryne (lead singer of The Talking Heads also went to school), about things to do in Rhode Island. We come up here every year to spend time with my in-laws, so for more than 20 years, I thought I knew almost everything there might be to do here, especially in this small state. However, I’m open minded enough…
Waves
We’re getting ready to head to the beach. I’ll be taking work along, unfortunately, as I had a hard drive crash and have to reformat all our new images for casart coverings, coming out this fall. Fortunately I’m almost done. Hey, I’m wondering if anyone else out there got the Shankar, Happy Birthday virus timed to go off on July 25th — his birthday? It’s an old one but attached itself to my Word documents on my Mac and they became corrupted when I got an infected virus from my former marketing folks’ attachments. Fortunately, I have a Mac so even though it was a pain, it was easily fixed.…
After Hours & Behind the Scenes at Museums
Museums are an obvious place to find art but not in this way. Several DC museums are open after hours on specific nights and times. This is the second year the museums have joined the ranks of nightlife clubs and it’s a popular thing. Tickets sell out in advance. Here’s the story, Mingling at the Museum, with the details of which museums are participating their website links. If you’re looking for more artwork that’s not usually on view, try going behind the scenes. Many museums have archived artwork in storage that can be viewed, as seen as an example here at the New York Historical Society. You don’t have to…
