Line Art and Longing

by | Jun 28, 2012 | The Public Humanist

There’s a passage in C.S. Lewis’s book about his late conversion to Christianity, Surprised by Joy, in which he describes an aesthetic experience from his childhood that exemplifies the core of his spiritual longings. He recalls looking at Beatrix...
StageStruck: Sound and (E)motion

StageStruck: Sound and (E)motion

by | Jun 28, 2012 | Stage

Circle Mirror Transformation is the name of a theater game in which a sound and motion begun by one participant is mirrored by the whole group, then transformed by someone else into another movement, and so on around the circle. It’s also the title of the play...

Between the Lines: In TED Land

by | Jun 28, 2012 | News

One sturdy axiom of our post-productive economic life is that the cohort of high-symbolic analysts who compulsively characterize themselves as creative are all but allergic to actual ideas. Take the ballyhooed TED (Technology, Education, Design) lecture series—a...