A few weeks ago, I was invited to speak to the graduating seniors at my alma mater, TCNJ. As a part of their visiting artist series, they invited some alumni back to talk about their particular fields or work environments, and to give advice. It went ok. Frankly, I’m out of practice speaking to groups […]
Author Archives: Daniel
Fixing things.
Any bokken will break eventually. Fortunately, this isn’t one I made. Unfortunately, it still snapped on its owner. Once a bokken has split like this there’s not really much you can do to repair it. So let’s cut it up into smaller pieces. Depending on where and how bokken break, you can generally get a […]
You need to build real, physical objects.
A few years ago, while working at Organic, I was asked to help manage a quarterly creative meeting. Each office would get together and have a few minutes to speak. The New York office, leading that particular meeting was expected to provide the bulk of the content. One of my presentations was “what if there […]
Yes, I was an art major.
Liberal arts majors don’t acquit ourselves particularly well. Every so often, some politician, commentator or writer in the public eye sees that we don’t have enough STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) majors / workers, and decides that history education, creative writing majors, and women’s studies programs are to blame. If we need more STEM graduates, […]