Posted in General on Sep 26th, 2007
Among the many benefits of working in the arts is that you can do things like surf around YouTube for a couple of hours and call it “research”. While viral videos are perpetually entertaining, I do find myself repeatedly looking for videos of musicians with whom I’m familiar. Yesterday, I was browsing around [...]
Posted in General on Sep 17th, 2007
I first read A Wrinkle in Time at age 10. Runty, bespectacled and generally unsure of my place in the world, I was immediately hooked. The main character in the book was Meg Murry, and I saw a great deal of myself in this character who shared my name and my general sentiments [...]
Posted in General on Sep 13th, 2007
I’m happy to say that What Do Robots Dream Of is getting even more interesting, with the addition of Lee Bailey, author of The Enchantments of Technology, who will share the stage with Cornell Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Hod Lipson and robot music from the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots. Lipson is [...]
Posted in General on Sep 6th, 2007
The beginning of fall has always been my favorite season; crisp, full of possibility. And these days, the time when tickets for Light in Winter go on sale. The 2008 Festival with its theme of “Identity” will be the richest yet, full of interesting and quirky takes on the theme, and more free events scattered [...]