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Dusting Off Our Game

June 2, 2011

Lee Boot

This 4th film installment in WhoWeAm’s series on education looks at the absurd discrepancy between traditional US culture and the…

Ad-ucation

May 19, 2011

Lee Boot

Sometimes you just have to say it: There’s an elephant in our living room. This week’s film is about something…

Educulture

May 11, 2011

Lee Boot

Sometimes the things that make the difference on issues like education are so obvious that we just can’t see them.…

Education Rethunk

May 4, 2011

Lee Boot

The first short film in a series that deconstructs "the education problem" in the US by looking at it through…

#3: culture, art and science

April 28, 2011

Lee Boot

As an artist/educator, it seemed relevant to learn about how the human mind and brain process information and respond to…

Intuitive Insight: So What

April 20, 2011

Lee Boot

Part 4—the final short film in this series about intuitive insight and the cultural impediments to becoming the innovation powerhouse…

Intuitive Insight: The Hot Spot

April 6, 2011

Lee Boot

Part 3 of a multi-post film about how innovation, creativity and prevailing cultural ideas about it in the US. This…

iPod, But Who Else Can?

March 23, 2011

Lee Boot

America’s economy is going to be saved by innovation and creativity, right? This is the first in a series of…

A BALTIMORE EDUCATION

March 9, 2011

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It was a long trip from cultural ground zero in Schenectady, but ultimately, I settled in Baltimore. Despite years spent…

Looking Back at the Holiday Ritual

March 2, 2011

Lee Boot

The ironic fact that culture doesn’t really matter in our culture is unfortunate because for us, as for all people,…

CULTURAL GROUND ZERO

February 23, 2011

Lee Boot

When I was growing up in Schenectady, New York, my mother would ask me to attend her symphony orchestra concerts.…

Introducing WhoWeAm on What Weekly

February 23, 2011

Lee Boot

WhoWeAm is a series of short films and articles exploring the notion that the world we create reflects a tangle…