Category: Creative economy
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Twigs and Berries From a Strange Garden
In this strange, dreamy plague limbo, I guess I thought that my blog would emerge from its own. There’s plenty of time to write, after all. A bit of restlessness has infected my reading, and that’s carried over to writing, I guess. There’s a lot of both happening, actually, but short pieces seem to be…
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Counting On The Arts
The most recent biennial Colorado Business Committee for the Arts Economic Activity Study has been released. It uses Scientific and Cultural Facilities District raw numbers in a statistical model developed by Deloitte Consulting using U.S. Department of Commerce multiplier data. In short, “quantifying the economic and social relevance of arts, cultural and scientific organizations in the metro area.”…
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Time Machine
September! It’s the best month for a vacation, don’t you think? When I had a regular job, I always reserved a couple of weeks in September for traveling, or just for hanging around the house or in museums. But one casualty of the creative life is often free time. Make no mistake- I’m free to…
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Riding on the Metro
Having to work means less time for social media. Fortunately, there’s public transportation for catching up. I can check email, Twitter and Facebook on the way to the University of Denver. I can also blog, thanks to Blogger’s iPhone app. I have a larger post in “drafts”, but chose to post this instead, because it’s…
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Fear of a Mac Planet
Fear of a Mac Planet An artist/instructor where I teach responded to my casual suggestion that faculty could communicate and resolve various routine issues among themselves by using a dedicated Facebook group with: “I’M NOT GOING ON FACEBOOK; I DON’T HAVE TIME FOR FACEBOOK!” So much for the social media revolution. Perhaps she’s one of…
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Going Mobile
I just downloaded the Blogger app and wanted to see if I can post from my phone. I’ve been spending a lot of time on the train lately, and the ability to update my Twitter accounts and check email has turned wasted (and annoying) time in my car into fairly productive time on the way…
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The word “economy” refers primarily to the movement of a nation’s resources; and secondarily, to an attempt to spend less. This sums up President Obama’s “balanced” approach to stimulus and deficit cutting, in that order. Polls show this agenda is favored by a majority of Americans. The GOP-dominated Congress has a radically different set of…
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Cold ‘fusion
Winter finally did arrive here, 6-7 inches worth, along with the frigid local tradition known as “Stock Show Weather”, named after the National Western Stock Show. I don’t mind. We need the moisture; it’d been mostly 50’s with sun all through December- and I have a long list of computer projects to catch up on.…
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Checkin’ the List
Sun breaking through the clouds after a gray morning; shimmering on the lake, shining on dry fallen leaves. I’m on my second pot of coffee, catching up on blog and Facebook posting, and sorting work for a group show at Zip37 gallery. Last year at this time, I didn’t have a lot to do, so…
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Millions of Monkeys…
…are, as we speak, whompin’ away randomly at millions of surplus, “Front Page”-era Remington typewriters (two or three per simian, typewriters are cheap! free, even) in a warehouse not far from the dark, 70’s chintz of Herb’s Hideout on Larimer, where Jack Kerouac once roamed looking for meaning in Denver’s tenderloin, poetry to match the…
