Sunday, March 29, 2009

A Whole New Mind- Will Right Brainers Really Rule the Future?

Three forces are tilting the scales in favor of Right brain thinkers.

1.Abundance has satisfied and over satisfied the material needs of millions boosting the significance of beauty and emotion and accelerated the individual's search for meaning.

2.Asia is now performing large amounts of routine white collar, Left brained work at significantly lower costs thereby forcing knowledge workers in the advanced world to master abilities that can’t be shipped overseas.

3.Automation has begun to effect this generation’s white collar workers in much the same way it did last generation’s blue collar workers requiring L-directed professionals to develop aptitudes that computers can’t do better, stronger, or faster.

Are the creative industries booming? (Hollywood, fashion designers, Industrial designers, artists, etc. Are their jobs in jeopardy?

Is the MFA (Master of Fine Arts) the new MBA (Master of Business Administration) Check out the article.
http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/cs/2008/04/the_mfa_is_the_new_mba.html

Sunday, March 1, 2009

HItler the Artist







Hitler decided he wanted to study art. He loved buildings and could draw a building he saw from memory. Confident that he would get accepted into the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts young Hitler took the entrance exam for painting. Failure hit him hard when he did not pass. A year later he tried again to get into the art school, but he was rejected. He never got to go to art school but did succeed in 1932 of designing the prototype for the Volkswagen Beetle. In 1937 Hitler and the Nazis started an art movement/exhibition called "Degenerate Art." Degenerate art was considered un-German and Jewish in nature. Click the following link to learn more about Hitlers Degenerate art exhibitions and the lengths that Europeans went to protect art from Hitler. http://degenerateartclass.blogspot.com .