John - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Artist, Graphic Designer, Interior Designer, Architect, Photographer. Assistant Professor at SouthEast Missouri State -- always looking to make new contacts and new friends with similar interests. Interests center around art and design mostly. I run a full service marketing and design agency.
I spend a lot of time in both the city and the country a couple hours away on my weekends - 100 miles south of St. Louis. Live in the CITY. moving to CAPE (not COD) - eeeeeek!
Enjoy meeting friends for dinner, drawing, photography, - and of course hanging out in the country too. ...and working in design, architecture, and graphic arts. After a long vacation from academia, I have recently accepted a faculty position teaching design, interiors, architecture, and illustration.
The Irony about life is that you have to go IN to find OUT.
It's called PROCESS.
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The Conditions for Creativity:
1, the ability to and enjoyment of being puzzled
2, the ability to concentrate and focus - and think in "scale" of big and small picture - and a constant awareness of the interdependence within.
3, the ability to accept conflict and tension; Stay calm and be excitable both.
4, the willingness to be born every day (courage and faith).
5, to have and feel a developed sense of self-awareness.
6, the ability to drink most of your friends under the table and still solve the worlds problems on a cocktail napkin.
...Derived in part from Erich Fromm, Creativity and Its Cultivation, 1959.
"What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams."
Nikos Kazantzakis (1885-1957), Greek novelist.

My Interests

Art, Design, Graphic arts. Architecture, Interior Design, furniture - both old and new - building crafts in general, mosaics, Fashion Design, Multimedia, Photography, Digital Art, fashion, drawing, sketching, digital video,
....oh - and I like dogs (Particularly English Setters). being close to the land and being in the noise of the city - both

I'd like to meet:

Interesting drama-less smart creative honest genuine fun people

Music:

It's a long and diverse list - maybe i will get around to this some day.

Movies:

Another long long list - but i recently discovered Bundock Saints - great film! And "Why We Fight" - everyone should watch that.

Television:

Don't really watch much TV - but when i do, it's history, science, culture things. I moved over a year ago and still haven't plugged the thing in.

Books:

just finished the history of surealists, and an iteresting book on art discourse/discourse in art - love book stores -
I also read a lot of non-fiction - art and design theory mostly. - currently reading "Theorizing Modernism" - Visual Art and the Critical Tradition. A rather long and detailed biography of Andy Worhol. update - never reaslly could finish the Warhol - taxing.... right now reading Architecture as Metaphor. And the New York Times. ....welcome to WWIII ! ...getting reading to read a new biography on FLW.

Heroes:

my mother (miss her) and my father (Who keeps on chuggin along and is, most the time, very right)...Family is everything. and I consider many of my friends "family".