Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Alicia designs. She's a picky person, and she welcomed the idea of a full-page head-shot with gusto she reserves for peanuts. She's allergic. I'm a back-seat designer. I love to watch Alicia's hands fly over the keyboard as she executes shortcuts and massages mounds of text and megabytes of photos into a beautiful FM. She looks at the magazine very closely. In fact, what you're looking at right now, I've written , but she designed it. From my floppy disk, to the Quark document, into the text-box and arranged just...
...idea of a "final" issue tempted us to break new habits and rediscover what we've cast off over the years. There was something inspiring about the crummy, faded pages of the "old school" FMs we unearthed. We were smitten with the concept of rediscovering the Fifteen Minutes that attracted rower-jock J.P. and pre-pubescent Aaron long, long ago. We're almost okay calling this issue a "humor magazine," formerly an offensive epithet. And so, as ex-Editor T.J. so pointedly predicted, we find ourselves "in the box" once again...
...better or worse, we live in a world Andy Warhol made--where striking visuals and fluffy text create and feed desire. In 1978 Warhol said, "I never read; I only look at pictures." He taught the idea crowd that everything out there was tasty bullshit, allowing them to round out their relativism. Eat up, he said. And so giant Brillo boxes colonized art galleries, challenging the exaggerated intellects of art critics. Meaning was out of fashion...
...left while I have been at Harvard, though I am still one of the most conservative people here. I showed up basically a right-wing nut, and right now I am just mainstream conservative, whatever that means. Other than that, I have become more convinced of the idea that hard work is necessary in order to achieve anything. I have realized that being robotic is not an ideal. When I came here and through most of high school, I wanted to be like Commander Data on 'Star Trek: The Next Generation,' and in the last three years I have moved...
...never played sports in Korea--there are no organized sports there. I started playing in Seattle and it was kind of an adjustment. My parents were used to the idea that there were two kinds of people: a student and an athlete--they were separate. I had to explain that it was part of the culture and I started wrestling and playing football...