Danny Gregory's Blog, page 49
June 27, 2014
Tommy Kane’s gift for you
My old pal Tommy Kane gave Sketchbook Skool an amazing work of art and we want to give it to one of our students. Enroll with a friend or relative and it could be yours. Check it out.
June 25, 2014
Don’t roll your eyes at me.
Imagine if your head was in a metal box and your neck didn’t move. In fact your entire body was rigid, like a quadriplegic locked into a wheelchair. You can only look straight ahead and, at any given time, your … Continue reading →
June 23, 2014
The Museum of You
For most of the history of mankind, mankind had little time for Art. People spent all their days just trying to survive, tilling the soil, tending to their herds, struggling to turn raw nature into subsistence. Then we invented machines … Continue reading →
June 20, 2014
Toast master.
I can smell the toast so deeply I can taste it. Not like “I want that so badly, I can taste it” but literally, like the atoms of carbonated bread have drifted through the air, into my nostrils, and pachinkoed … Continue reading →
June 18, 2014
You talkin’ to me?
I’ve always talked to myself. When I was little, I would narrate my doings, describing the astonishing thing I was building with Lego, the culmination of a stellar building career, summarized in grandiose terms by a plummy narrator, like … Continue reading →
June 16, 2014
Kiss all frogs.
When I was running a creative department a few years ago, I decided to make a film about creativity at the agency. Not about my department, but about people in accounting, account services, production, catering, media, and human resources. When … Continue reading →
June 15, 2014
Father’s Day
How do you convey what it is to feel pride in your child? It makes one’s own accomplishments pale. Because it is your doing — and so much more. It is the sum of the love and work you put … Continue reading →
June 13, 2014
Non-stop.
I’m writing this on a plane. I write a lot of things on a lot of planes. I write from coast to coast, six hours at a time, seat back up, tray table down. I don’t mean to write. … Continue reading →
June 11, 2014
Master of None.
I have always been a dabbler. I have tried so many things, thrilled at the initial excitement of learning a new skill. Here’s a partial list. In high school, I learned the basics of how to write computer programs in … Continue reading →
June 9, 2014
Father’s Day
How do you convey what it is to feel pride in your child? It makes one’s own accomplishments pale. Because it is your doing — and so much more. It is the sum of the love and work you put … Continue reading →
