Sep 11 2012
Richard Picciuto wrote a beautiful tribute to New York City in his blog on December 11, 2011. In explaining about the creation of the I LOVE NY logo, he included a quotation that beautifully describes how people realize how precious something is to them, when it has almost been lost. The blog needs to be …
Jul 16 2012
I thought it relevant to post one of Richard Picciuto’s blogs about Paul McCartney today, since McCartney has been prominent in the news lately. Over this weekend, on Saturday evening, July 15, 2012, Sir Paul showed up at a Bruce Springsteen concert in London’s Hyde Park and began performing with “The Boss.” The park is …
Jul 02 2012
Richard Picciuto wrote this blog in February–just a week before he passed away. It deserves another posting, since he enjoyed the prospect of space exploration and the ever-present hope/fear of contact with another form of life. It remains an ever-fascinating subject for even the most revered scholars of every age, past and present. In our …
Mar 07 2012
For Nigel Cabourn, it’s all about ‘utilitarian luxury – stiff-upper-lipped menswear’. Cabourn has worked in the fashion industry for over forty years, but his clothing has little in common with most people’s notion of fashion. His longstanding passion for vintage clothing, fabric and their details are his influences, and his reluctance to buck trends is …
Feb 25 2012
Richard Picciuto’s wonderful, scary, brilliant, eventful, happy, sad, emotional, productive, creative, educational life on this earth ended yesterday. His heart was attacked in a way that could not be fought. This blog was his daily pleasure and combined his creativity with his author’s mind to produce fascinating articles about a wide variety of topics, places, …
Feb 24 2012
He told me, ‘Make sure when anyone tackles you he remembers how much it hurts.’ He lived by that philosophy and I always followed that advice.~~John Mackey, 1999 Arguably the greatest football player to ever live, former Cleveland Browns running back Jim Brown turned 76 one week ago today. Brown never missed a game in …
Feb 22 2012
The ‘Terra Cotta Warriors’ is a collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China. It is a form of funerary art buried with the emperor in 210–209 BC, whose purpose it was to protect the emperor. According to historian Sima Qian (145–90 BC,) work on this mausoleum …
Feb 20 2012
Fifty years ago today, on Feb. 20, 1962 at 9:47 am EST, John Glenn launched from Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 14 to become the first American to orbit the Earth. An Atlas rocket propelled a Mercury spacecraft into Earth orbit and enabled Glenn to circle Earth three times. The former U.S. marine pilot traveled at …
Feb 18 2012
It is obviously difficult to comment on the sociology of a possible extraterrestrial civilization. Nobel Prize winning physicist Enrico Fermi put forth a proposition in 1950 which is now referred to as the ‘Fermi Paradox.’ This contradiction or proposition is: that with the billions and billions of star systems in the universe, one would think …
Feb 17 2012
The Dutch city Helmond is transforming its central shopping area, per a master plan by Professor Joan Busquests. Falling within that zone is the city’s new library designed by BOLLES+WILSON, the first component of the project. The plans for the library represented a major challenge for the architectural firm, due to the fact that the …