Sunday, November 29, 2009

Saturday, November 28, 2009


"Would you rather be in New York, looking at New Jersey, or in New Jersey, looking at New York?"


(From a sign advertising condos for sale in Hoboken.)


Friday, November 27, 2009





Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Monday, November 23, 2009

Saturday, November 21, 2009

I was in Las Vegas recently.
There's a remarkable building under construction,
the Ruvo Brain Institute, designed by Frank Gehry.


On this latest trip, I was invited to enter the work site
to see how the building was constructed.
It's amazing to witness: thousands of metal panels, cut by hand,
each carefully placed into the structure.


The construction workers, were just a great bunch of guys.
Serious about their work, lighthearted about life.

Gehry's genius humbled me, the vision, the complexity of the design, the engineering . . .


Then it struck me. How Gehry's genius was so dependant upon
the genius of a bunch of regular guys.