Posts Tagged ‘Yann Weymouth’

One Degree of Separation: The Talking Heads and HOK

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Lately, on the drive to preschool, I’ve been subjecting the Coolest Girl in the World to the Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense on the car stereo. I still remember being blown away by Jonathan Demme’s concert film of the same name. She tells me to turn it up and I think, 25 years later, it sounds better than ever. But I still wonder: Why the big suit?

I recently learned that Talking Heads co-founder and bassist Tina Weymouth (watch her shine here) is the sister of Yann Weymouth, a design director in HOK in Florida who worked on …

From Architect to Artist: Andrew Reach Comes ‘Full Circle’ at Frost Museum

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When a debilitating spine disease forced Andrew Reach to retire from the architectural career he loved in 2005, he feared his contributions to the Patricia and Philip Frost Art Museum in Miami might be his final creation ever.

Thankfully, he was wrong.

The fruits of Andrew’s new artistic journey are showcased in an exhibition as part of the museum’s grand opening. Titled “Full Circle,” the exhibition features intricate digital paintings Andrew creates using a mouse as his paintbrush and Photoshop as his palette.

To call it a dream come true would be an understatement.

“I’m so humbled and so honored to be featured in the building I helped create,” he …