★ Who We Am
What To Delete: Pt. 2
November 30, 2011
In the digital world, space is pretty cheap these days. I can backup my laptop for 6 months for what…
What To Delete Pt. 1
November 16, 2011
What's hard is choosing what to keep, and what to throw out. Will I need this? Will I ever use…
Idea Asteroid
October 20, 2011
Imagine a big gnarly idea hurtling through space and on a collision course with your head. It's threatening you directly.…
Street Destination
October 13, 2011
So, Istanbul. Decades after the Ottoman Empire said goodbye to its last Sultan in 1922 the population of Istanbul was…
Aspiration Vacuum
October 5, 2011
Have we forgotten how to aspire? Have our problems, once merely sticky but now bordering on existential have scared us…
Ode to the Bazaar
September 21, 2011
Just off the main street in the part of Istanbul where you'll also find Hagia Sophia and the Blue Masque,…
IstanBaltimore
September 14, 2011
Leaving my world behind allows me to experience other cultures, and also helps me see my own. I'm in Istanbul…
Cyclist Outlaws
August 31, 2011
I'm abike commuter. I love it. But nearly everyday, I see my fellow cyclists do things that hurt their interests…
Talulah Derailed
August 17, 2011
It seems to me that would be pretty unusual to judge yourself as the one in 1,000 artists who will…
Treating Others
July 21, 2011
Despite that the data on the cost-benefit ratio for using vaccines to stall pandemics is overwhelmingly in favor of vaccines—those…
Downside Up
July 13, 2011
I don't know about ya'll but I think we're in the middle of a big change. It's as if for…
Education Rethunk
May 4, 2011
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
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
Part 4—the final short film in this series about intuitive insight and the cultural impediments to becoming the innovation powerhouse…
Intuitive Insight: A Peek Under The Hood
March 30, 2011
Part 2 of a multi-post film series about how innovation and creativity intersect our prevailing cultural ideas about them here…
iPod, But Who Else Can?
March 23, 2011
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
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
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
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
WhoWeAm is a series of short films and articles exploring the notion that the world we create reflects a tangle…
