Left Side Right Side

We all have two sides to our brain: the right brain which is said
to control our creative artistic abilities and the left side
which is the analytical part that can do math and science.


We often tend to describe people as left brain or right brain
people, depending on whether they’re particularly gifted with one
set of abilities or the other. Is this valid? Or does a
successful computer guy need to have artistic skills as well?
Does a successful artist need a left brain as well?


Tim Rauls might be considered a left brain person. Tim is the
owner of Tim’s Computers, a PC retail and repair shop on Sherwood
Forest in Baton rouge that has been fixing the computers of a
loyal clientele for more than 25 years. In the decades since, Tim
has seen the PC retail and repair business change considerably -
from an era where the local IT guy was indispensable to one where
he has been replaced by some techy in a call center 4000 miles
away.


But through it all Tim’s Computers has survived the disruption -
because there is still a segment of the market that doesn’t do
online tech support.


When you walk into Tim’s you see a steady stream of mostly older
customers who literally don’t know where to go when their trusty
PC crashes.


Rob Carpenter is a local visual artist who specializes in
drawings using a variety of media that produce intricate patterns
using shapes and particularly lines.


Rob was a professor of art at Nicholls State University for more
than a decade, and though retired from teaching, continues to
spend his days drawing and painting in his backyard studio. 
Rob's work appears regularly at the Baton Rouge Gallery and is
featured in a new satellite studio of the Baton Rouge Gallery at
the Baton Rouge Metro Airport. His work has also appeared in
venues throughout Baton Rouge and has hung in galleries around
the country.


Out to Lunch was recorded at La Divina Italian Cafe in the
Acadian Village Shopping Center. You can see photos from this
show by Erik Otts at our website.


And check out more lunchtime conversation about the Baton Rouge
art scene


See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.