Like most days, today I was just buried in work. WAY too busy to take advantage of actually being in a college town. But, thankfully, I took a deep breath, put that all out of my mind, and went to the Jule Collins Museum of Art to watch the Screening of a fantastic new documentary film by Peter Esmonde eponymously called Trimpin: The Sound of Invention. The movie is about the work and creative process of the inventor/magician/mad scientist/composer/MacArthur Genius Fellow/ intermedia artist/ singularly named…

Today was the day. After being engaged no fewer than five times in conversations that began with some version of “hey Rusty, did you get that email I sent you about xyz….?” I finally had to admit that I was officially beyond the point of no return – it was time throw the switch. After my last meeting of the day with the Associate Dean I went to my office and just did it. For way too long I have been suffering under the delusion that my…

Anybody who works with WordPress for very long will begin to hack around on their install in order to customize it to their liking. Trouble is, I can never quite remember what I did to get something working, and the next time I integrate a new theme, or a theme gets updated I have to re-remember my hacks. I wrote this one down so I could remember next time…

The excellent theme that I am using is called “Arthemia” designed by Michael Hutagalung. One of…

Yesterday I went out to the Rural Studio to meet with Andrew Freear to talk about all kinds of beginning semester stuff. In amongst the wide-ranging conversation we started to talk about where ideas come from, and how the Rural Studio manages to get work done. For me the thing that I am always taken with in the process of design deals with the “art of the possible,” or rather focusing our energies on what we can do, instead of what we can’t. I think on…