Tag Archives: myths

Lectures and Wisdom

Posted on November 10, 2015 by Antonio Vantaggiato

My friend Dan Ausbury provoked my thought processes by contributing a couple of articles from the New York Times published in the past weeks. The first is “Lecture me. Really.”; the second is “Schools for Wisdom”. I believe they are … Continue reading →

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Card stacks

Posted on March 13, 2015 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Today, after a pleasant meeting at UPR’s Graduate School of Information and Technology Science, just above the library, my attention was caught by some strange furniture in the shape of drawers. [Photo by me. CC Licence BY-NC-SA] Yes! They are … Continue reading →

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Creation and meaning and House of Cards

Posted on March 11, 2015 by Antonio Vantaggiato

[No spoilers ahead] One episode of the new season of House of Cards has some Tibetan monks make  a beautiful colored-sand mandala in the White House. Like all good mandalas (and puzzles, by the way) a mandala -as a pure … Continue reading →

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The face-to-face myth

Posted on February 20, 2015 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Writer Susan Pinker published a nice article on The New York Times titled Can Students Have Too Much Tech? It is a bit biased, in my opinion. First, let me say I haven’t yet read her bestselling book The Village … Continue reading →

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Ave

Posted on January 21, 2014 by Antonio Vantaggiato

These images tell a story of people’s beliefs. I shot them during the last week of 2013, so it is fitting they begin 2014 for Skate of the Web.  

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