Who would have thought that the most valuable tool in building a college curriculum would be Post It Notes? In the Flashpoint office we have a wall, much like this one, full of two-foot square month by month calendars going
Drinking the Kool-Aid
On Wednesday this past week Howard Tullman, President and CEO of Flashpoint Academy, cuffed me on the back of the head. Yesterday, as we were waiting for people to arrive at a Flashpoint open house, founder and chairman Ric Landry
Sentimental Education- Part 2
Flaubert’s Sentimental Education (that’s him to the left) is a ironic and pessimistic novel, but what would you expect from the man who wrote Madame Bovary. I would like to think I am not that dark (I am an Optimist’s
Sentimental Education- Part 1
School resumed this week in Chicago and the big yellow buses are a reminder of just how much I hated going to school. While I was a good student and had lots of friends and did lots of extracurricular activities
Navel Gazing
It was an interesting week for the dumb filmmaker. As you saw in the previous posts I was simultaneously shooting a film and teaching eight incoming students. If it was 3:30, I must be teaching, 4pm, filmmaking and back and
