"No industry undermined by its greatest partisans will thrive long."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/weekinreview/28streitfeld.html?pagewanted=1&_r=3&partner=rss&emc=rss

Storyboard PSA from Andrew Taylor, "The Artful Manager"

"a strong community...a vibrant economy...a creative workforce."

Subsistance

A colleague and I, with a cohort of Meadows students, visit Les Subsistances experimental theater festival in Lyon, France. Visit the trip's blog here.

YES.

Indexed.
Brilliant.

Two From Richard Avedon

During the past four decades, America's endemic anti-intellectual tendencies have been grievously exacerbated by a new species of semiconscious anti-rationalism, feeding on and fed by an ignorant popular culture of video images and unremitting noise that leaves no room for contemplation or logic.

and the rebuttal ... In a nation that boasts more educated people, college graduates, books sold and general literacy than ever before, intellectually oriented people patronize institutions that pay attention to sophisticated print culture - universities, colleges, Web sites, publications, radio shows - and dump those that aim at bottom-level taste.

True?