http://thinkmke.com Insight to the Milwaukee region from Julia Taylor, President of the Greater Milwaukee Committee. Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:53:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Art finds a place in life sometimes where you least expect it. We were in California last month, visiting the community of 29 Palms and met a local artist, a photo-realism painter, Chuck Caplinger. He lives in a dome in the desert and his wife, Holgie Forrester, is an actor. When ... http://thinkmke.com/?p=382 A New Year begins with sense of new things possible in our lives. So suppose you've been thinking about that business you've always been wanting to start. Economic times are tough. What advice would our community of CEOs give you? Here's the responses from some of our region's top and innovative ... http://thinkmke.com/?p=380 Today I attended a TRE (Transforming Economic Regions) Roundtable organized by the Land Grant Universities.  Neil Noyes, President of the Virginia Tobacco Commission, riveted all of us with his incredible vision which is now a reality of transforming the textile mills, tobacco fields and coal mines of Virginia by investment ... http://thinkmke.com/?p=374 Like most human beings I tend to measure ideas out against my personal experience and some universal perspectives--generally gathered in my post college years. This pic goes right back to a childhood of cows, farm equipment and that rural mess of equipment (the junk heap lot). This is where my ... http://thinkmke.com/?p=367 A very quick discovery walk through of social media for everyone who looks at this phenomenon with amazement and blurry vision! MySpace.com  This is the space of teens, music and hormones.  There are great sites with garage band music and playlists, photography and lots of little hourly and minutely connections. Sometime in the future, someone ... http://thinkmke.com/?p=349 Today it felt like spring. It was marvelous to drive down the lakefront and see the clouds skidding over the water sparkling under this spring sun. So I had to pull over by the yacht club and take this picture. The fishing boats were being winched into into the water ... http://thinkmke.com/?p=330 Last October a group of friends visited Georgia O'Keefe's inspiration ground at Ghost Ranch several miles from her home. The beauty of the cliffs and the sky were amazing. I finally got around to working with the images and I love the landscape all over again. http://thinkmke.com/?p=311   Shot by the Pier at the Yacht Club in January 2009 with an iPhone and created an HDR shot with Photoshop and Photomatix http://thinkmke.com/?p=298 This is a bit different than the public art debate with the Common Council and Janet Zwieg's commision--but then again art is an individual matter sometimes.  Photography is my current passion artistically. I grew up drawing portraits at county fairs for $25 a portrait and sketches for display advertising for the ... http://thinkmke.com/?p=288 Early this week, Jonathon Winkle, an artist and President of the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center, asked me a very thoughtful question. He noted that we talk a great deal about the importance of our cultural assets in corporate talent attraction but we never ask if we have created both the ... http://thinkmke.com/?p=282