creativity Archive

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    Reading List and Dream School

    No escaping it. One must read to get a degree, and to contextualize what the thesis is… and what the thesis is trying to prove. I met with both of my advisers recently, Vinita and Alex, to sort through some pressing questions. One, how I...

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  • The Chapel at Villa-Maria, where we shot the second round of interviews

    2nd Shoot on 2nd Thought

    Last Tuesday I returned to Villa for a second shoot. I was reluctant, at first, to follow through with this one as the interviewees were recommended to me by the Villa Principal which led me to suspect that they would be model students–and therefore paint...

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    The Sound of Freedom

    OK, I’ll confess, I’m a bit of a Montreal snob when it comes to our artistic culture in this town. It’s just that ol’… je ne sais quoi. Case in point: this past weekend I invited my neighbor, who’s new to Montreal, to meet my...

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    Freedom Writers

    Well now, I haven’t sobbed like that in a while! I’m one of the programmers for the wonderful Regent Park Film Festival (in Toronto) and I just finished viewing a documentary film based on the Freedom Writers Diary which is about how a high school...

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  • Sir Ken Robinson

    Sir Ken, once again…and Scott

    It looks like Sir Ken was invited back to TED recently. Big inspiration all over again! He adds that “new-media”/techies and teachers need to collaborate more than ever today if the educational environment wants to keep up with the contemporary and future creative landscape… OK…...

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