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I had a good friend who worked as a volunteer at the Block Gallery shortly after it opened, 37 years ago. Until her untimely death, she worked hard to help to upgrade its collection and status. If she were here now, she would be thrilled and amazed at the changes that have brought the museum national recognition. Block Gallery is now the Northwestern University Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art. It offers events of all kinds that attract the entire university community as well as the greater Evanston community.
Recently the museum received a gift of 44 Edward Steichen photographs given by art collectors Richard and Jackie Hollander. These images range from Charlie Chaplin and W.B. Yeats to self-portraits and botanical studies. The significant gift of silver gelatin and platinum prints by the Luxembourg-born American photographer Edward Steichen (1879-1973) is the second to the museum from the Hollander family, who donated 49 Steichen prints to the Block in 2013.
Prior to a series of museum gifts to the Block, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Hollanders held the world's largest private collection of Steichen photographs, which they purchased directly from the artist's estate. Adding to the value and importance of the collection, the photographs were printed by the artist himself.
Active throughout the 20th century, Edward Steichen transformed the medium through his innovations in portrait, fashion, theater, horticultural and advertising photography. He became one of the best-known portraitists in the world, focusing on capturing the personalities as well as the impressions of his subjects. What is especially interesting is that the Block Museum stands tall as the Midwest recipient and takes its places at the level of the Whitney Museum of American Art in the East and the Los Angeles County Museum in the west.
"We are honored by this new and important gift of art from Richard and Jackie Hollander, which recognizes the Block's increasing prominence as a university art museum committed to teaching with its collections across fields of study," notes Lisa Corrin, the Block Museum's Ellen Philips Katz Director.
"It highlights the value of the collection as a significant resource for faculty, students and the Chicago-area community. Collectors like the Hollanders know that giving works of art to the Block ensures that these treasures will be studied and appreciated, particularly by new generations of students, for many years to come."
This group of 44 works represents a significant addition to the Hollanders' earlier gift of 49 works by Steichen, strengthening the breadth and the depth of the Block's holdings of photographs by the artist. Ranging from 1901 to 1935, this collection of photographs showcases the range of Steichen's early work and the multiplicity of his interests -- from fashion, to nature, to self-portrait, dance and movement.
Photographs from the previous gift were exhibited in the 2014 exhibition "Steichen Warhol: Picturing Fame," the first exhibition to closely examine the lines of connection between the two photographers.
Four Steichen works from the Block collection were loaned to the Art Institute of Chicago for the groundbreaking 2014 exhibition "Sharp, Clear Pictures: Edward Steichen's World War I and Condé Nast Years."
While the original gift provided the museum with iconic celebrity images from the artist's best-known years as a Condé Nast photographer, this second set of prints complements and differentiates the first portfolio, speaking to Steichen's great range as a photographer and shedding light on some of the lesser-known areas of his practice. Of particular interest to scholars will be the horticultural and botanical studies in the collection, which situate Steichen within the mid-20th century movement of abstract photography.
"The Hollanders' generous gift will provide an excellent tool for critical discussions with students and scholars from many academic departments across the University," says Kathleen Bickford Berzock, Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs. "The Hollander's two major gifts encompass Steichen's many areas of interest and evolution as a photographer. It will be studied holistically while each print individually offers significant comparative potential for drawing out concepts within the Block's growing collection of modern and contemporary art."
About Edward Steichen (1879 – 1973)
Steichen was a key figure of 20th century photography as a protégée and collaborator of Alfred Stieglitz and as the first chief of photography for Condé Nast's Vogue and Vanity Fair, a position he held from 1923 until 1937. Steichen became well known for his portrait photography of celebrities and his fashion and advertising photos. A sharpened focus, dramatic lighting and bold compositions characterized his photographs -- a departure from the softly focused images of the early 20th century.
With America's entry into World War II, Steichen volunteered for service and became director of the U.S. Naval Photographic Institute and commander of all Navy combat photography. In 1944, he directed "The Fighting Lady," an Oscar-winning documentary about life aboard an aircraft carrier during wartime. After the war, Steichen became the director of photography and an influential curator at the Museum of Modern Art, New York from 1947 to 1962. His most famous exhibition, "The Family of Man," presented photography as an art form that could act, in Steichen's words, "as a mirror of the essential oneness of mankind throughout the world." Steichen received countless awards and honors, including Knighthood in the French Legion of Honor, an Honorary Fellowship in the Royal Photographic Society, the Distinguished Service Medal, the Art Directors Club of New York Award and the U.S. Camera Achievement Award for Most Outstanding Contribution to Photography by an Individual. In 1963, Steichen received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President John F. Kennedy in recognition of a lifetime of achievement.
The Block has partnered with the McCormick School of Engineering on a series of art and engineering lectures. Read more about Block's interdisciplinary approach: "Art That Sees the Big Picture"
The Block Museum is a member of the Northwestern Arts Circle, which brings together film, humanities, literary arts, music, theater, dance and visual arts. Search for events across all artistic disciplines at Northwestern Arts Circle. See what events are taking place at the Northwestern University Arts Circle


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William West Anderson (born September 19, 1928), better known by the stage name Adam West, is an American actor best known for his lead role in the Batman TV series (1966–1968) and the film of the same name. He is currently known for portraying eccentric characters, as well as his voice work on animated series such as The Fairly OddParents and as the fictionalized character of the same name on Family Guy.
West was born William West Anderson in Walla Walla, Washington to Otto West Anderson and Audrey V. Speer. He has a younger brother named John. He attended Walla Walla High School during his freshman and sophomore years, and later enrolled in Lakeside School in Seattle. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Literature and a minor in Psychology from Whitman College in Walla Walla where he was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity and participated on the speech and debate team.
Later, while living in Hawaii, West landed a role as the sidekick on a children's show called El Kini Popo Show, which featured a chimp. West later took over as star of the show.

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1. Not knowing what you don't know
Its easy to do online surveys these days. Too easy. It may be so cheap and easy that you do it without understanding the basics and end up with misleading answers that send your business down the wrong path. This is worse than never doing any research in the first place. Spend a little time and get to know what you don't know about market research. A basic review of the following topics is a great start.
- Sampling and sampling error
- Quantitative vs. qualitative research
- Question bias / question design
- Response rates / confidence levels
- Questionnaire coding
- Why people take surveys (social contract)
Some great books on these subjects are:
"Mail and Internet Surveys: The Tailored Design Method" by Don A. Dillman
"Asking Questions: A Definitive Guide to Questionnaire Design" by Norman Bradburn, Seymour Sudman, Brian Wansink
2. Not eliminating sampling errors
Now that you know what sampling error is you can understand why it is critical to conducting meaningful market research. Many of the online surveys you see today are full of potential sampling errors. Don't be one of them. Take the time to develop a good sample and then make sure you get as many of those people as possible to your survey. This is probably the biggest difference between professional market research and your do-it-yourselfers. The pros take the time and money to develop good samples and then make sure that they get good response rates. You can to if you put in the effort.
- Always use a true random sample
- Tracking your respondents (PINs)
- Program the survey to eliminate duplicates and respondents with bad intentions
- Check the data for oddities (clean the data of illegitimate records)
- Use incentives (does not have to be monetary, see social contract)
3. Making decisions with inaccurate information
If you never understood any of # 1 and # 2 it is a good bet your survey is useless. Worse than that you may think it is telling you what to do with your important business decisions. Making decisions with inaccurate information is worse than taking a guess.
4. Writing bad questionnaires
You might get everything else right and then go and write a bad questionnaire. Lots of online surveys have at least one bad question. What is a bad question? It's any of the following:
- Biased questions
- Unanswerable questions (impossible to know the answer)
- Questions with two meanings
- Hard to understand questions (way to long, strange use of words)
- Dumb questions (asking about something the researcher should already know, or has already asked)
5. Programming a hard to take survey
After you have spent all that time creating a good sample and writing good questions don't ruin it by programming a hard to use survey. One of my top gripes is forcing respondents to complete every answer. Too much of this is going to get you either a contrived answer or the respondent leaving. Neither is good.
- Don't force non-critical questions
- Don't have non-standard buttons
- Don't use non-standard technologies (java applets, etc.)
6. Going cheap
Both the good and bad thing about online market research is that it can be much less expensive than in the past. The bad of this is that it is just too easy to conduct flawed market research. Many of the above items cost time and money (sampling, questionnaire design, etc.) Spend the time and money to do it right. Even better hire a quality market research firm to do it for you. Either way you will save money in the long run by conducting quality market research.
7. Confusing social networking with quantitative market research
Talking with lots of people (social networking) might gain you valuable qualitative information but it is not quantitative market research. The difference is qualitative information rarely represents all of your audience and gives you individual opinions and ideas. Quantitative research on the other hand is designed to represent all of your audience and gives you answers that you can know reflects all of your customers. Don't confuse the two. Social networking can be useful but understand its limitations.
8. Being overly "cute" with the survey tool
Your market research is supposed to gather meaningful information about your target audience. It is not supposed to impress them with all the high technology you can master. Keep your survey technology as simple as possible to reduce excluding respondents that are not up to speed with the latest and greatest. avaliação atendimento ao cliente
- Keep Flash and JavaScript to a minimum (use them but not in critical areas, always provide alternatives.)
- Use tried and true web technologies
9. Relying on only one source of information
Market research is a snapshot of opinions at a certain time. If your research results in wildly different answers than you were anticipating it is wise to confirm these conclusions with more data.
- Conduct another survey
- Look for corroborating data


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Jim Jones Full Interview On Global Grind Pt. 2 "Jay-Z's A Dweeb & Sometimes It Hurts You"
n Part 2 of this exclusive, Jim Jones schools folks on the state of the industry, breaks down his own label politics and even shares a bit of his feelings on Roc-a-fella and Jay-Z. Watch
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Hi, I know Ben and Jen used to post here, but when I tried to find details of their 1/72 work, I found just a partial old blog. Are they still around in some "web" form these days, or have they moved on to hobbies new?
Zed1 wrote:I really don't know. Years agyo, Ben was already to be met on the chat every now and then. I learned a lot from him - but then he just disappeared. Without a trace, so to say. As far as I remember, he left no explanation.
Peter wrote:For your information, I tried to contact them by e-mail. See if I get a reaction.
Dad's Army wrote:Already did try that, but mail isn't active anymore, and the blog hasn't been updated as well.
A shame, I had such a good time with them in the chatroom, looking back to the good memories