Friday, March 11, 2005
Notes from New Orleans
After slamming four beignets down my throat at the Cafe DuMonde, I proceeded to the Hyatt to the foot and ankle surgery meeting there. The day was given over to speaking with doctors, getting to know our sales force, inspecting the products of other companies that make medical devices for foot and ankle surgery, and putting out little fires. We wrapped up with dinner at Brennan's and a stroll down Bourbon Street.
The coolest shot of the night, though, was far from the French Quarter. In between the meeting and dinner we went from the Hyatt back to the Holiday Inn, which has a giant clarinet bolted to its side:
Here's a closer shot. If you don't let your capacity to reason get in the way, this mural looks for all the world like an actual three-dimensional clarinet fixed to the side of the hotel.
Somehow, this painting has more cool in its two dimensions than all the rest of the Holiday Inn put together. Which makes me wonder which corporate tool had the stones to authorize the painting in the first place.
The coolest shot of the night, though, was far from the French Quarter. In between the meeting and dinner we went from the Hyatt back to the Holiday Inn, which has a giant clarinet bolted to its side:
Here's a closer shot. If you don't let your capacity to reason get in the way, this mural looks for all the world like an actual three-dimensional clarinet fixed to the side of the hotel.
Somehow, this painting has more cool in its two dimensions than all the rest of the Holiday Inn put together. Which makes me wonder which corporate tool had the stones to authorize the painting in the first place.
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