Photo by Matthew Wiebe I'm a researcher at the Imaging Research Center at UMBC. We explore new forms of storytelling ...
In the digital world, space is pretty cheap these days. I can backup my laptop for 6 months for what ...
choosing What to delete: PART 1 What's hard is choosing what to keep, and what to throw out. Will I ...
So, Istanbul. Decades after the Ottoman Empire said goodbye to its last Sultan in 1922 the population of Istanbul was ...
Have we forgotten how to aspire? Have our problems, once merely sticky but now bordering on existential have scared us ...
Leaving my world behind allows me to experience other cultures, and also helps me see my own. I'm in Istanbul ...
The big hope for Westerners in the past few centuries was the idea that things would just keep getting better ...
Instead of freaking out, if we redirect our frustration over the actions of fellow human beings toward reflection and understanding, ...
It seems to me that would be pretty unusual to judge yourself as the one in 1,000 artists who will ...
Despite that the data on the cost-benefit ratio for using vaccines to stall pandemics is overwhelmingly in favor of vaccines—those ...
This is the short wrap up of the WhoWeAm series on looking at education through the lens of culture. Two ...
This 5th film installment in WhoWeAm’s series on education is an interview with an Art Teacher who looks at her ...
This 4th film installment in WhoWeAm’s series on education looks at the absurd discrepancy between traditional US culture and the ...
Sometimes you just have to say it: There’s an elephant in our living room. This week’s film is about something ...
Sometimes the things that make the difference on issues like education are so obvious that we just can’t see them. ...
The first short film in a series that deconstructs "the education problem" in the US by looking at it through ...
As an artist/educator, it seemed relevant to learn about how the human mind and brain process information and respond to ...
Part 4—the final short film in this series about intuitive insight and the cultural impediments to becoming the innovation powerhouse ...
Part 3 of a multi-post film about how innovation, creativity and prevailing cultural ideas about it in the US. This ...
It was a long trip from cultural ground zero in Schenectady, but ultimately, I settled in Baltimore. Despite years spent ...
When I was growing up in Schenectady, New York, my mother would ask me to attend her symphony orchestra concerts. ...