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03 Apr The Number

Posted at 19:48h in Battle for Brooklyn, docs, News by Michael Galinsky 0 Comments

This week, in addition to hustling to finish Battle for Brooklyn, we have been working on an EPK (electronic press kit) for a Danish singer named Agnes Obel. Agnes moved to Berlin to be creative, and over the course of a few years she put together an album of seemingly simple songs based around piano melodies and singing. I write...

20 Mar Mall Stories

Posted at 10:59h in camera, company, docs, News by Michael Galinsky 0 Comments

When I was a freshman in high school, I became somewhat obsessed with photography. I was "that guy" who took most of the pictures for the school paper and the yearbook. I knew that I wanted to be a photographer, but I didn't want to go to art school, or journalism school for that matter. I intuitively knew that it...

11 Feb To close or not to close

Posted at 18:07h in Battle for Brooklyn, company, docs, News, school doc by Michael Galinsky 0 Comments

This fall, as the pace of education"reform" in New York cranked up, I started to pay more attention to what was going on. With two children in my local public school, I quickly realized that the more I looked, the less I liked what I saw. I began to write about the subject to try to get my head around...

25 Jan 5 years later

Posted at 09:49h in company, News by Michael Galinsky 0 Comments

Today is the 5th anniversary of my father's death. My mom seems to be trying to join him. Yesterday she fell on some steps and cut her head badly enough to require staples. After poking, prodding, and some cat scans it was determined that she had suffered no long term damage. I wasn't around - she's in NC and I...

18 Jan The People United

Posted at 19:04h in Battle for Brooklyn, Book Reviews, company, docs, News by Michael Galinsky 0 Comments

If you’ve been to a protest in the last 10 years, you’ve likely heard the chant, “The people, united, will never be defeated.” The opposite is true as well. When the government pits community against community, as it is now doing in the process of promoting charter schools designed to compete with community schools, it's important to...

13 Dec The cloak of anonymity

Posted at 11:01h in Battle for Brooklyn, company, docs, News by Michael Galinsky 0 Comments

The internet is a terrible place to discuss ideas and work out complex feelings. Yet, in our hyper busy culture we seem to fall back on it more and more. It's difficult to make time for a community meeting, but we end up having our days taken over by comment wars. Over the last couple of years I have followed...