The Conversation: Richard Borders
Richard Borders Gemini Light Show Conversation with Jim Alabiso • Photograph by laird For over fifty years, Richard Borders has been the creative force of the Gemini Light Show. He created the first concert touring light shows for The Who, Pink Floyd, The Doors, and Jimi Hendrix, to name a few. He invented the first live video projection and laser systems for entertainment, including lasers that could draw pictures on clouds. Five...
Chasing Color: Ellen Diamond
The Cultural Center at Ponte Vedra Beach is currently showing a fifty-year retrospective of work by venerable local artist Ellen Diamond.
Q & A with Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville Executive Director Joy Young
February ushers in a new beginning for the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville as Joy Young takes the reins as the program’s new executive director. Military brat, performing artist, and tireless advocate for the arts, Young is a cultural leader who successfully combined art and administration as the South Carolina Arts Commission’s director of administration, human resources, and operations for fourteen years.
Under the Mediterranean Sun
In the period that followed the U.S. Civil War, American artists who wished to be considered seriously, had to study abroad. Some were encouraged by their teachers to refine their painting techniques and seek new sources of inspiration.
Bob Hills: Self-Taught Clockmaker
At the age of ninety-four, Bob Hills measures time by the number of clocks he’s made. Eighteen more to reach his goal of one-hundred. “Not sure I’ll make it,” he chuckles.
Questions to Ask an Agency During a Sales Meeting
Sales meetings are usually the time and place for a marketing agency to put on their best show to convince a prospective client to give them a big, interesting project, along with bags of money. But a better use of time would be for both parties to treat the meeting as an opportunity to test out the relationship and start to build rapport with one another.
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