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Volume I, Issue 6 In This Issue Features Bedtime Stories He would be walking or bicycling or driving somewhere and music would enter his head. One moment his verbal thoughts were darting around his brain with glittery transcience just like anyone else's might, the next moment they would be replaced by music, strands of melody, flotsam that melded and formed into harmonies. Then he would forget where he was, and by the time the verbal thoughts resumed their flickering, it was to tell him that he was somewhere other than he had intended. Reuben Nakian - Yesterday and Today In the mid-50's, Nakian devised a new method of building sculpture by spreading thin coats of plaster over cloth, like burlap, and attaching to this an armature of steel pipes or wire mesh. This was one of the technical innovations that place Nakian among the most important contributors to the advancement of sculpture in this century. From a Distance: An Interview with Rita Wissinger Rita was not predisposed to favor video cameras and distance education. "I wouldn't have expected I'd be gravitating to it. I saw no need for it. Then I watched some demos, and it began to click in." Teaching in front of cameras felt strange for the first half-hour - the trick was remembering those people who were "there," but not seated in front of her. Linkage: A Travelogue Passages about the Cuban Missile Crisis and about Intelligence and Deception revolve around the obscure motivations of bureaucrats developing tremendous information and weaponry systems. Along with the paranoia and terror of the Soviet military elite during the escalation of the arms race, is the obvious farce of a CIA plot to make Castro's beard fall off. Innovation Internalized: Making it up as you go We encounter examples routinely: the distinction between a photograph and a photographer's eye; facts and advice; a library and an annotated bibliography, updated and provided only to paying subscribers. The former, readily digitized and exchanged, are declining in value as the latter, more scarce and harder to reproduce, are increasingly deserving of our favor. Surrounded by gadgets and software and data, those of us in Westernized society may soon exhaust our fascination with them (if not our dependence on them), shifting our attention to the quirky, the creative, the emotional, the personal. Rehearsal and Performance Schedules
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