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This is Pam Tag­gart. She is one of the most amaz­ing artists I have ever known. She is a small woman whose ever expand­ing inner world explodes onto huge can­vas after huge canvas.

We have been build­ing mates and artist bud­dies for what seems like a life­time. We worked together to cre­ate scom­mu­nity and pro­fes­sion­al­ism. We ate ice cream cake together and she hid birth­day gifts like easter eggs — giv­ing me obscure clues for how to find them.

I will miss pass­ing her stu­dio doors and won­der­ing what fan­tas­tic thing was tak­ing place just out of sight.

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I’m run­ning around with a tape mea­sure and M is record­ing the mea­sure­ments. Mov­ing is an adven­ture. We have done it many times. I often feel like we are pulling the tent stakes up, rolling up the rugs and load­ing up the camels — head­ing to some new place for the season.

This move is more like a dis­tant move. For the first time since I moved to Philadel­phia we will be mov­ing away from the great green North­west of the city. We will be mov­ing into a more urban atmos­phere. Walk­ing to work and the gro­cery store, and everywhere.

I’m look­ing for­ward to doc­u­ment­ing this change.Back to pack­ing.

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Great. Just thrilling. The guy who went to the UN and spun a tale to jus­tify our war in Iraq, a mouth­piece for George W. Bush, has endorsed Obama. That makes me feel bet­ter. I think Pow­ell has excel­lent judg­ment. {sarcasm}

Then, Obama responds: Obama said that if he wins the White House, Pow­ell will have an advi­sory role. “Whether he wants to take a for­mal role, whether that’s a good fit for him, is some­thing we’d have to dis­cuss,” Obama said on NBC’s “Today” show Monday.

Do I want the guy who swal­lowed every­thing the Bush admin­is­tra­tion gave him and spit it back out to the pub­lic, a pub­lic that trusted him more than the pres­i­dent of the united states, in any advi­sory role?

Not on your life.

Pow­ell at the UN. [pho­tos]
Powell’s speech [tran­script]

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A cap­ture of a cor­ner of my stu­dio before pack­ing this spot.

I will miss this lit­tle cor­ner of my life. But I’m already on my way to mak­ing a new one.

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I will be mov­ing my art stu­dio down­town. I’m busy pack­ing so posts of progress prob­a­bly won’t arrive until later. What a strange trip this is.

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OK Then. This is Chris Lehmann he is the prin­ci­pal of Sci­ence Lead­er­ship Acad­emy a PUBLIC school in Philadel­phia. He is a friend and an inspi­ra­tion. At IgnitePhilly you have 5 min­utes and 20 slides to tell your story. Chris talks so fast he only needed 4. Watch this video he says it best.

This is the same way we think at Stel­larvi­sions our work is life long kinder­garten. Dis­cov­ery through play that answers the prob­lems we want to solve.

Don’t you wish every school had Chris at the helm? It could if we take his lead and change our sys­tem.
Why isn’t every school an MIT media lab?

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