There was an amazing event at Beta this evening. My friend Mary has just finished a  piece of art for the BETA Production building. Tonight she  officially presented  it  in a very candid and fun conversation with our fearless leader Kyle..   DIane came in to hear the presentation 


Here3 is the peice !.. It has been so fun and interestign watching Mry assemble it over the last several weeks !

Mary talked about the process she used to come up with the piece. She bagen by talked about    the work’s title ‘Hello Monster’ . She  explained how she had come up with the design of the peice  in a dialog with  an internal voice she called ‘the monster’. The monster challenged and coached her in creating the concept of the piece and its creation. It was wonderful hearing Mary describe t her thinking. It was particularly fun for me to hear how her mind worked.. so differently than my own.. and I suspect most of my co-workers. 

Kyle did a great job of talkign about how the piece  fit the building.. How it provided warmth in a  cool and calculated environment. Kyles did a great job  talkign to Mary about  the differences and sameness of art and engineering. . The two of them had a great natural rapport. 

There were lots of questiosn and comments from the audience  ofg abotu 70 BETA folks and other guests

Marys brother Tom was there.. he’s a very good freind of Gabes.. was great catching up with him 

 

The conversation did a great job of introdusing the peice to our community. We came away impressed with the work .. and of course with Mary .. who is always amazing !

Thanks you Mary and Kyle !

nite all, nite sam

-me

Tody I had the great pokleasuer and  honor of doing  a keynote at the Vermont Kindergarten teachers annual meeting.  I was there to give a talk on how Play helps with serious careers. THey get it ..  Kindergarten teachers have such great playful energy and creativity. I saw so many people there I knew.. ! It was sooooo great getting to hang out with all these folks.  

My thanks to to My friend Pat and others from the VT Agency of Ed for giving me this opportunity . !

nite all, nite sam

-me

Busy day at work.. grateful to be able to come back home to yoga and potluck. I love diane’s classes.. and so do all of our friends. Tonight I remembered to take a picture of our freind Fritz. Many of my freinds at work used to work with Fritz at Microstrain/Lord.. 

All of the folks who know Fritz over here respect him tremendously ..   

So do I !

nite all, nite sam

-me

Busy, busy day.. My good friend Rebar (aka Aaron)  created  a really fun project at work.. He used a projector to project a stylized image of our Plane Alia’s cockpit on a larg4e white wall.. Behind the wall is one of our Simulators.. 

Whille the image was projected, a bunch of folks (me included) grabbed paint markers and drew the image on teh wall.. It was s uch a cool and spontaneous collaboration !  

It came out great ! Rebar.. you are so amazingly creative !!!!

nite all, nite sam

-me