Category: AIA Archive

With the first day of Spring less than two weeks away, you’d hardly know it. The only green we can see around here are the St. Patrick’s Day window dressing in the stores and bars around town. Another week of winter here in NY, with much of the snow melting and refreezing into ice. I’m…

Giselle and I took our first trip to New Orleans this past weekend. What an amazing town. It’s a wonder I never visited before. It’s probably the most enjoyable city in the deep south. I don’t include Miami as it’s not really the ‘Deep South’ so much as ‘Deep Florida’. Her friend Tori ran the…

Artists are by nature, overly sensitive. My friend Harris’ footage in question (sans the offending VO slate) can be found here: http://thinktank3.com/art.html People have been asking me what I think about the Gates. I’m a bit cool on the final result, having seen his previous work in California (the Umbrellas) and finding them more impressive.…

Happy Valentines for those of you with someone. Happy Black Monday for those of who aren’t. This weekend they opened the “Gates”, art installation in Central Park by Environmental artist, Christo. While the weather was rather cold and overcast, it didn’t stop throngs of people from walking through the park as if it were summer.…

I took Giselle to Nassau, Bahamas over the weekend for her birthday and we kept on running into Bill Clinton. He was there (by himself) for some Bahamian government events of some sort. Nassau was packed with cruise ships and their passengers were all over the place. Wherever Bill was, they were crowded around him…

Actually it’s a myth that Iniut’s (Eskimo’s) have over 400 words for snow. I’ve even recently heard a reporter on CNN say ‘over 1000’ words for snow. The number seems to get bigger every other year. Like German, Inuit words are a combination of separate words/concepts into a new word (ie. in English it would…

Amid all the sad stories due the tsunami, I’m happy that life goes on both there and closer to home. Two of our friends (Angie in Hawaii and Kerry here in NY) just had their first babies about a week apart. Big props to both ladies, especially Angie who had a 32 hour labor! Both…