October 2013 FAST COMPANYI just received my new Fast Company magazine and of course had to read it. Not only was I intrigued by the photo of Jony Ive on the cover, who by the way could have shaved for the photo, but by the [...]
"Design," The New Buzz Word in Marketing
Posted by godong car on Sunday, 15 September 2013
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Is Georgia O'Keefe A Realist Too?
Posted by godong car on Friday, 13 September 2013
In the process of trying to find the "best" American artist, I looked at many paintings. I couldn't really say the arguments for "best" were all that valid as I think that each of the articles I saw were heavily biased by [...]
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Who Is The Great American Artist?
Posted by godong car on Thursday, 12 September 2013
After telling a friend about the recently discovered Van Gogh painting, SUNSET AT MONTMAJOR in Provence, one that I missed by about a month at the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam, I related it was originally purchased by a [...]
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Making Rosemaling Into Your Own Styling
Posted by godong car on Tuesday, 10 September 2013
Rose Rosemaling Birdhouse by KrugsStudioSince I took a class on basic "rosemaling" at the Las Vegas Painting Convention, or as I discovered recently in Norway, translated meaning "rose" painting, I found that I was in love...in [...]
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Does Anyone Write Letters Like Van Gogh Today? The Intimacy of Letter Writing.
Posted by godong car on Monday, 9 September 2013
People of a certain age used to write AND receive letters. In this newfangled age of text messages, emails and such, receiving a letter ranks right up there with viewing dinosaurs on the prairie; at least in the minds of [...]
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Did We Ever Have Privacy?
Posted by godong car on Thursday, 5 September 2013
This Was Pinned in 2007!Over the past few weeks I think Americans, or rather the citizens of the United States (because the Brazilians are mad as hell over being spied on and consider themselves Americans too) and the rest [...]
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Does The Big "3" Design A Car Americans Will Buy Anymore?
Posted by godong car on Tuesday, 3 September 2013
Car designers and their engineers try to make a vehicle a fairly wide audience will purchase. If you are Porsche or Ferrari that is not often a consideration. However, if you are Ford or Chevrolet, Toyota or Honda, you are [...]
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