Dayna Carney

Before the Internet, if you were in need of some facts you might actually decide to consult an old person, like the one living in your finished basement.

" As a designer I make these kinds of choices all the time. I make them very quickly because I am so familiar with them. I do it so naturally that I forget how many choices there are. I have never worked quite like this before and certainly wouldn’t do it for another client. This was different."

I was entering adulthood and trying to live my childhood dream, but now, to be “authentic,” I had to be the product I had long been posting online, as opposed to the person I was growing up to be.

Small island developing states  like Dominica are  disproportionately impacted by climate change , meaning they  stand to lose even more  than other countries if the global community and big greenhouse gas emitters fail to meet commitments to cut emissions.

Even so, I was also a teenager, making decisions based on the visibility that our culture teaches us to desire. I knew that my audience wanted to feel authenticity from me. To give that to them, I revealed pieces of myself that I might have been wiser to keep private.

" This book is Rick Rubin’s design. While I often made recommendations, I did not make any design choices. All of the choices were Rick’s."

Rodgers says, the stages for this year’s show could only be about half the size they have been in previous years. There was also the matter of getting them on and off the field swiftly. The crews had about 7.5 minutes to set up this year’s performance and about six to take it down. “That’s the science you have to inject into an artist’s world,”