The other option was to read all 750 pages of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead.
I do plan on reading it this summer, but for now, no thanks.
One of the factors that influenced my decision to go was the quote below (and various others like it). I wanted to get out of the routine. I wanted to get out of Richmond.
More than anything, I wanted to STOP SEEING AND DOING WHAT IT IS I ALWAYS SEE AND DO.
Turns out that it was a pretty amazing place, even though our arrival time was 4pm.
It closed at 5.
Some favorites from our mad dash:
"Stay in touch. One way to do that is to watch TV all the time. Read books and magazines. See all the movies. Go to the weird new exhibits at the museums. Know what’s out there, good and bad. It’s called keeping your finger on the pulse of the culture, all of which has direct bearing on your craft."-Luke Sullivan, Sr. VP, Group Creative Director, GSD&M
Anyone who hasn’t read Sullivan's Hey Whipple Squeeze This, go here and buy it.
Right now.
dubs. out.
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just to let you know, this picture http://bp3.blogger.com/_H1HOVa6n0Fo/R1x9XODB3pI/AAAAAAAAAG8/TaZGeEKuKLc/s1600-h/Untitled4.png
is along the wall of the stairs to the play mobile room. Kandinsky - The Improvisionist. I recognized it right away
"Watch TV?" "Read magazines?" When was that quote made -- 1989? Did he miss the invention of the Internet? If you want to stay current, listen to someone who stays current. No wonder his agency is in the toilet.
larry-- appreciate your reading and appreciate the comment.
but i think you're missing the overall message of the quote, which, as it turns out, was written in 1998.
i don't think it needs to be said, but a quote like this is timeless. whether it mentions the internet or not is irrelevant. the overall message is that to do good work, you need to continuously see new things.
if anything, i think the internet is far less interesting than the physical world around us.
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