March 25, 2018 · Engineering
I’m going to tell you about a place that got murdered. Not quick, not clean. Slow, by a thousand cuts from people in Patagonia vests who convinced themselves they were improving the neighborhood. The building’s still standing on California Avenue. The sign still hangs there like a tombstone. But Antonio’s Nut House? The real Antonio’s? […]
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March 11, 2018 · Engineering
Amazon delivery robots on the streets of Palo Alto: disruption imminent… Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy
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March 11, 2018 · Engineering
How do? Welcome to my shop Let me cut your mop Let me shave your crop Daintily, daintily…Hey, you! Don’t look so perplexed Why must you be vexed? Can’t you see you’re next? Yes, you’re next, you’re so next! Bugs Bunny, Rabbit of Seville (1950) This Cardinal Barber Shop is the real fucking deal: it’s […]
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March 5, 2018 · Industries
The phone rings. Can’t tell you who. I’m sworn. But trust me, Google images knows things. ¿Qué es la vida? Un frenesí. ¿Qué es la vida? Una ilusión, una sombra, una ficción, y el mayor bien es pequeño; que toda la vida es sueño, y los sueños, sueños son. What is life? A madness. What […]
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February 17, 2018 · Engineering
Stanford Indian at 735 Emerson St, Palo Alto, CA 94301. Every society needs educated people, but the primary responsibility of educated people is to bring wisdom back into the community and make it available to others so that the lives they are leading make sense. Vine Deloria Jr. The Indian. Stanford’s mascot from 1930 to […]
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February 16, 2018 · Individualism
The Condemned Men of Palo Alto So here’s the shot. Stanford’s quad, that cathedral to optimism and endowments, and right there in the middle: six bronze figures who understood that sometimes the price of collective survival is individual annihilation. Rodin’s Burghers of Calais. Cast number seven, if anyone’s counting. Look at them. 1347, their city […]
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February 12, 2018 · Collusion
Figures in a California Landscape: a dance performance by movement troupe Chocolate Heads inspired by Manuel Neri’s sculptures in The Anderson Collection at Stanford University. This piece is part of a year long Aleta Hayes/Chocolate Heads project exploring the idea of California. Native Californian, Manuel Neri with his interest in the human figure, provoked this deepened […]
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