We’ll be talking about visual brilliance next week in Dallas
Graham Kimbrough of the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association tells me we have a good crowd — 38 folks, so far — signed up to attend my day-long The Art of Being Brilliant session next Wednesday at the Belo building in beautiful downtown Dallas.
The Belo building, 400 South Record Street in
Dallas. This is a photo montage made from
screen snaps from Google’s StreetView.
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It’s a six-hour session that will kick off an inspirational talk about creativity and risk-taking — a presentations that was well-received in Atlanta, Austin and Raleigh — and then build upon that with nuts-and-bolts lessons you can take home and use immediately.
We’ll discuss things like the nature of creative ideas, how to brainstorm, and how small papers — or resource-starved large papers — can produce top-notch visuals. We’ll look at lots of brilliant examples and examine a number of case studies.
And hopefully, we’ll have some fun, too.
The best part: The session is absolutely free, courtesy of the fine folks of the SNPA.
Mine is just one session in a three-day program of workshops on various topics of interest to newspapers. Read all about it — including registration information — here.
In addition, I blogged an entire schedule of the three days, including speaker bios, here.
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Walk out the west, or Record Street exit of the Belo
building and here’s what you see. The globe thingy
is the 50-story Reunion Tower at the Hyatt Regency.
From Google StreetView.
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The Belo building houses the corporate headquarters for the media empire anchored by The Dallas Morning News, next door.
Turn to your left and take in the crib of The
Dallas Morning News. Behind the big-ass tree,
that is. Again, from Google Street View.
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We’ll begin at 9 a.m. sharp. For lunch, we’ll be on our own. Hopefully, that won’t be a problem — we’ll be smack-dab in the heart of Dallas, only four or five short blocks away from Dealey Plaza, where you-know-what happened 45 years ago this November.
I bet it’s not too late to sign up. Come spend a day with us, exploring the nature of brilliance.
I’ll look forward to seeing you Wednesday morning!
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AND FOR YOU HISTORY BUFFS…
Our packed schedule Wednesday won’t give you much time for sightseeing in downtown Dallas. Which is a shame, given your proximity to Dealey Plaza.
So perhaps that’s incentive to come into town a day early. Or to stay a day later.
The Texas School Book Depository in the early 1960s.
Lee Harvey Oswald fired at President Kennedy from
the southeast corner window of the sixth floor. That
would be along the far right side in this view, the
second window down from the top.
Here it is today; again, via Google Street View.
The former depository building is the one behind
the streetlight. Directly in front of us? Yes, that’s
“the grassy knoll.”
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The museum is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday and noon to 6 p.m. on Mondays. Admission is $13.50.
Read more about the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza here. Check out the Sixth Floor web cam here.