Have a great 2014!

A defining moment!

Nov 5, 2008

I started blogging at the beginning of this year - January 1, 2008 4 days later, when Obama won the Iowa caucuses, I a posted a video of his speech, and asked a simple question, "Is this a defining moment of our time?" See it here Almost exactly six months later, on...

Brevity is the soul

Dec 12, 2008

I had posted earlier (see Twittering a tale) about short, short fiction that is suddenly the rage. Matt Koehler just introduced me to another example of this new emerging genre: Six Word Memoirs. Check it out.

Reflections

Mar 16, 2020

- afternoon walklingering on the shore linetime for reflection - - Reflections © Punya Mishra. All photos taken with my iPhone, over the years. (published 2/27/20, revised with new photos 3/16/20) On Reflection: Haiku by Catherine from her website: Still Standing on...

Neuroscience, downtime and creativity: New article

Oct 1, 2016

In this article, in our ongoing series on Rethinking technology & creativity in the 21st century, we interview Dr. Jung. Dr. Jung is a neuro-psychologist, brain imaging researcher, and a clinical professor of neurosurgery at the University of New...

The civilizing effects of technology

Feb 8, 2013

Martin Amis was recently interviewed in Guernica (Amis Unfiltered, Santiago Wills interviews Martin Amis). The interview covered a wide range of topics, literature, Obama, and a fascinating digression on the relationship between food and national character! What...

TPACK: A podcast

Mar 11, 2008

I just discovered a podcast about TPACK. The folks over at GenTech created a podcast back in September 2007. Check it out here or alternatively here. As they describe it, "In this episode of GenTech, the boys discuss the framework itself and how it may be used as a...

Going back home

Nov 23, 2008

Amita Chudgar, friend and colleague, just sent me this really nice article in today's NYTimes, titled "India Calling" about the second generation of Indian Americans who are now going back to India. These are kids born and brought up in the US, whose parents had...

Fact / Fiction, ambigram

May 29, 2009

Yesterday after I had posted my two latest ambigrams (see them here) I got a message on Facebook from my cousin Sonny (the one who composed the cool music for my Explore, Create videos) saying Big deal. I can make "fact" and "fiction" blur together till they are...

New ambigram logo for ideaplay.org

Jan 2, 2010

I had written previously about a blog started by students in our Educational Psychology and Educational Technology Ph.D. program (ideaplay.org) and had designed a couple of ambigrammatic logos for them. You can see the original post here. Here is one of the original...

10 Comments

shenglan on January 24, 2014 at 4:07 pm

Cool! How did you do the change at about 00:50? wow!

Carole Ames on January 9, 2014 at 11:36 am

Brilliant! How can you top this one. Best wishes for a very happy new year!

LaTesha Richardson on January 5, 2014 at 3:44 pm

cool. Thanks for sharing.

Anne-Lise Halvorsen on January 3, 2014 at 12:40 am

Thanks for sharing! Very cool. What a great family project. Happy New Year!

Matthew Koehler on January 2, 2014 at 12:27 pm

You are clever, clever people! Happy New Year!

Lisa Plascencia on January 1, 2014 at 10:44 pm

Wow, once again you have outdone yourselves with a very cool design and a visually stimulating project that is fascinating to watch!! Thanks for sharing and Happy New Year and best wishes for 2014!!
From our home to yours, The Plascencias 🙂