The League of Lensgrinders

Meeting Minutes

September 21, 2020 - Topic: Visual Arts

1 hour 15 minutes

Members Present: James Foreman (co-chair), Evelyn Pryce (co-chair), Robert Foreman (co-chair); new member Katie Crawford inducted (Lensgrinder 005).

- Official Induction of New Member: Katie Crawford

- Katie’s style is the push and pull of cute and unsettling

- Who are famous graphic designers?

- Katie endorses Paula Scher:

- The Goals of a Designer

- Grab Attention

- Communicate Clearly

- Match the Client

- The Anxieties of a Graphic Designer

- Louder, More Colorful, More Interesting

- “I would rather take more risks”

- A traditional art background

- It all starts by hand

- Evelyn also starts by hand

- Robert only Lensgrinds digitally

- Typewriters

- Awful babies

- We expect kids to just do what we say

- Robert’s writing tips: Weird Pig available now!

- Word processors just reproduced typewriters

- Tom Hanks and typewriters

- James endorses Simon Stalenhag

- Sci-fi b******t (affectionately)

- Evelyn endorses Aubrey Beardsley

- Robert doesn’t have favorites anymore

- Robert endorses Horace Pippin

- Deceptive simplicity

- We should always keep learning

- Katie endorses Tara McPherson, her favorite artist

- the combination of sadness and joy

- AOC and Obama - politics and design

- Designy Design

- Keep Calm and Carry On

- Styles change, but people look backwards, too

- War of the Worlds and Orson Welles

- Edward Gorey’s War of the Worlds

- Sketches by Anne -- sketchesbyanne.com

- The Foreman Childhood Alarm

- The War of the Worlds

- the Foreman grandmother experienced it!

- Orson Welles was forced to apologize, though he knew what he was doing

- George Orson Welles apologizes

- Saint Orson is a genius

- ktcrawford.com you fools!

- check out the stream for Katie’s artwork: The Only Way Out is Through

Meeting Minutes

September 7th, 2020 - Topic: Bookshelf

1 hour 10 minutes

Members present: James Foreman (co-chair), Evelyn Pryce (co-chair), Robert Long Foreman (co-chair); new member Andrea Laurion inducted.

Emergency meeting called by co-chair James Foreman to discuss the topic of this tweet:

Tweet:

* The List of Books

* Basic Literary B*****s

* What would we see on a bookshelf that would make us leave?

* The two shelves: the working shelf and the performing shelf

* What books do we have to explain?

* Should books be aesthetically pleasing?

* The Bedside Books

* Steve Harvey is from West Virginia

* Everyone has someone else’s copy of House of Leaves

* Do Kindle libraries count?

* Showing people your favorite movie

* Andrea Inducted into the League

* The Babysitter’s Club

* Sleepover Movies

* The Books Everyone Mocks Aren’t Always Bad

* Eat Pray Love has Lessons For Writers

* Evelyn Doesn’t Trust a Henry Miller Fan

* Norman Mailer

* Motion: The official The contents of the bookshelf of the people we are romantically involved with do not matter unless you want them to.

* AndreaLaurion.com is the website, where you can subscribe to her newsletter

* We keep discovering rooms in the mansion

* Point of order: Evelyn Pryce finds the Bathroom

* Clip of the Meeting: Gore Vidal vs. Norman Mailer

* Podcasts are bringing back the public intellectual

* Gore Vidal joins the pantheon of Lensgrinder Heroes

* Andrea ads a room to the mansion

Meeting Minutes

August 15, 2020 - Topic: Disasters

1 hour 20 minutes

Members Present: James Foreman (co-chair), Evelyn Pryce (co-chair), Robert Foreman (co-chair).

* In Medias Res

* Pandemic Journals

* Simulation Theory Theories

* Twitter Used to be Great

* Tigers Are Real

* Foreman Childhoods

* Do We Like Disaster Entertainment?

* Are stories disasters?

* Point of Order: Romance requires a happy ending

* Orson Welles: Ignorance is Confidence

* Point of Order: Writing Workshops

* Nothing is permanent, everything is terrible

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