A Day in a Los Angeles Middle School
A Day in a Los Angeles Middle School While I was driving through South Central Los Angeles, about to teach a class in photography, I was wondering what to expect. I had never been to that school before. The School LAUSD Central Region Middle School #71420, East Adams...
Bella Toscana: La natura può più dell’arte
Bella Toscana: La natura può più dell’arte Nature is beyond all teaching. Renowned for its art, history, and evocative landscape, Tuscany is a region where the past and present merge in pleasant harmony. Hill-towns gaze across the countryside from on high, many...
Mount Rushmore: Presidential Profiles
Mount Rushmore: Presidential Profiles Mount Rushmore, located just north of Custer State Park in South Dakota’s Black Hills National Forest, was named for the New York lawyer Charles Rushmore, who traveled to the Black Hills in 1884 to inspect mining claims in the...
Will Pokémon Go help Retailers to new Heights?
News are filled with projections that Pokémon Go is a blessing for brick-and-mortar stores. But the real value of the underlying augmented reality technology is with their arch rival: Online retailer. Only the pre-digital generations will remember the original...
Department Store: Retailer or Realtor?
When Herman Bergdorf and Edwin Goodman, his apprentice, created the department store Bergdorf Goodman more than a century ago, they founded an enterprise – and a concept – that has become synonymous with luxury shopping. Since then, department stores around the world...
Modern Consumer: New Opportunity for Luxury
For decades, there was a clear formula for success in the luxury goods business: Offer well-made products at premium prices through a limited distribution network and reinvest a substantial part of the profits back into the brand, boosting consumer brand awareness and...
American Fashion Brands Face Strategic Consequences
Not so long ago, American fashion brands were riding the crest. Now, not so much. As recently as March 2012, the price of Coach common stock was at a historic high; outlet stores were opening at a rapid rate; and the company introduced a flash-sales e-commerce site...
Luxury Brands: Changing the Real Estate Landscape
The rise of e-tailing, the havoc caused by the recent Great Recession and the increased homogenization of the American shopping experience have generated an upheaval in the country’s real commercial real estate landscape. The upshot: increasingly, luxury brands are...
Recession – Scarred Marketers Grapple With Post-Traumatic Stress
It is not entirely clear when the economic battle–a.k.a. the Great Recession–of the 21st century actually began. . ARTICLE HIGHLIGHTS: I consider 2008 to be the year of “great value destruction.” Many marketers are still aggressively promoting their...
Chinese Luxury Market: A Changing Business
For much of the past decade, China has been the key driver of the global growth in sales of luxury products and services. But over the course of the past eighteen months a number of factors—some predictable, others less so—have combined to slow what had been a torrid...
Insights into the Apple Watch Launch – What are the Risks?
Over the years, Apple’s new product launches have become a global event, just like the Apple watch introduction. The secrecy surrounding upcoming products has been a great tool to build consumer attention. The product unveiling was covered by the media like a...
Learning from “The Interview”
Sony has been fast to bring the movie ‘The Interview” from selected theaters to Netflix. With last December’s political commotion around the release, I invested the time to watch the film. Unfortunately, from an artistic perspective I wasted valuable...
Washington’s Crossing
Washington’s Crossing Every year on Christmas Day, fellow citizens from around the country come to Bucks County, PA to watch several hundred reenactors clad in Continental military dress reliving the historic event of Washington’s Crossing of the Delaware...
Merry Christmas
As the year comes to an end, I am wishing you and your family time to enjoy the pleasures of the festive season and a happy and healthy New Year. Merry Christmas.
Istanbul – Gateway between Europa and Asia
Istanbul – Gateway between Europa and Asia Istanbul is a frenetic city with a wealth of culture, history and nightlife. Split in two by the Bosphorus Strait, it is the only city in the world to straddle two continents, Europe and Asia, and thus has two...
The Great Outdoors: British Columbia
The Great Outdoors: British Columbia Canada – the world’s second-largest state, is one of my favorite places. Back in the early 1990’s, my wife and I lived in Toronto, which remains, until this day, one of our most cherished cities in the world....
Man Made
Man Made Architecture, as a manifestation of human creativity and ingenuity, has played a vital role in shaping the built environment throughout history. It is a dynamic discipline that reflects and responds to the cultural, social, and technological contexts of its...
Light & Shadow
Light & Shadow The interplay of light and shadow is a fundamental aspect of visual perception, one that holds immense significance in various artistic disciplines. In the realm of photography, particularly landscape photography, light and shadow play a crucial...