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Claiming Territory for a Localized Makers Community
If the local makers do not represent themselves, no one will! I am taking a longer break between posts because I am working on a sample video for a series based on a book I self-published and then unpublished. I thought it needed editing. Ten years ago, I didn’t have the where with all to do…
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How to Tell the Difference Between Andersen Design Popular Art and Andy Warhol Pop Art
Both used production as an art form and started in the midcentury so how do you tell them apart? How do you tell the difference between Andersen Design Popular Art and Andy Warhol’s Pop Art? Good Question! Let’s see if we can establish some distinctions! First, there is the startup date. Andersen Design established its production…
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Colin Woodard’s History of Andersen Design
WHEN I WAS A BOY in the late 1970s and early 1980s, 1 would see my grandparents’ handiwork everywhere: on the windowsill of a doctor’s office, on the coffee table at a stranger’s cottage, on display in countless retail shops from Boston to Bar Harbor. One of their stoneware sculptures—my grandmother’s seagull, wings tucked for…
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Hello world!
A while back, I started doing peer reviews for Humanities and Social Science Communications. The first paper I reviewed was about Marx. The paper said that Marx said that the social outsider has to change the system to become part of it. It was no mere coincidence that I was given this paper to…