The fact is, whether the startups are frivolous or not, the crazy energy and direct, interactive spirit of real-life collaboration behind projects like Startup Bus is exactly why they matter, and the very reason they can have a broader impact on innovation culture at large.
As in the art-as-life collaborations of Gilbert and George or McDermott and McGough, the self-mockery in all this might be underwritten by a serious, Oscar Wildean purpose.
Ephron not only showcased the bonds between women in her films and in her real-life collaborations with sister Delia, but she discussed the power of those relationships in her books.
In real life, the collaboration could hardly be closer.
But whatever the contradictions of our politics, our artistic belief in the short life of collaboration was genuine and principled.
The result, "DNA: The Secret of Life" (in collaboration with Andrew Berry, a science writer who has a doctorate in genetics), is essential reading.
The pictures, outtakes and all, are part of a new book, "Speed of Life," a collaboration between the two of them that draws on Sukita's pictures of Bowie over a 40-year period.
Mentored in psychiatric research by Donald F. Klein MD, with whom he formed a life long collaboration, he focused on discovering and evaluating rational treatments for depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and schizophrenia.
He had even written an early study of the split personality in the form of a play, Deacon Brodie or the Double Life, in collaboration with his friend WE Henley.
The process of staging his own life (in collaboration with the University of Miami, where he teaches; the Miami-based Fresco Productions; and a cast of University of Miami graduates) seems to have blinded Mr. Svoboda to the distinction between art and wish fulfillment.
