Visual learning environment

Keith Haring mural reproduced, originally uploaded by hardbuzzz.

Today--right now, in fact--I'm in a university training colloquium. I just advised someone how to handle people who use their computers to do stuff besides take notes.

Hey, I'm multitasking!

Anyway, the nuts-and-bolts rundown of university biz by the President was actually quite interesting if you're into charitable law-and-biz stuff, which I happen to be so that worked out fine.

Another surprising thing about the meeting: the room. All street-art or pop art. One wall: Warhol. Another: Lichtenstein. The third: Keith Haring, who actually grew up in PA Dutch country just a short jump from me. In fact, right by the flea market where I'd go every week to buy old comics was Haring Printing.

And not too far from Haring-land: the hometown on Jim Steranko & Chip Kidd.  Must have been all the hex signs.

Pictured above: the glorious restoration of Haring's landmark mural on Houston & Bowery. From the photographer:

His famous mural on Houston Street and Bowery from 1982 recreated. The Keith Haring Foundation together with Deitch Projects and Goldman Properties have worked with Gothic Scenic who is reproducing the mural using extensive photographic documentation of the artwork of the legendary artist which first appeared 25 years ago. "To ensure color-matching accuracy, original samples were procured by scraping away layers of paint on the wall until pieces of the original image were revealed.