Posted in Audio, Ideas, Music, NPR, People, Politics on Jan 15th, 2010 No Comments »
Salman Ahmad on Onpoint
Salman Ahmad is a bonafide rock star in Pakistan, across South Asia and in émigré communities around the world.
As a Pakistani Muslim boy, he caught Led Zeppelin fever in America, came home with a dream of fusion rock-and-roll and world peace — and now argues with mullahs over whether Islam even permits [...]
Posted in Audio, Creativity, NPR, Tech Stuff, Video on Dec 8th, 2009 No Comments »
Wonderful ad for Toshiba. Beautifully executed.
Behind the scenes, the making of Space Chair Project:
Finally, an NPR piece on the making of Space Chair Project: In New Ad, Chair Floats To Space.
All great stuff and a wonderful demonstration of what goes into the making of an analog advertisement (as opposed to something simulated on a computer).
[via [...]
Posted in Audio, NPR, iPhone on Nov 3rd, 2009 No Comments »
New app turns your iPhone into a public-radio DVR
This is exactly what I want and it works very well. Get it here.
Posted in Audio, Photographers, Places, Slide Show on Oct 13th, 2009 No Comments »
Down at the Corner Store
A narrated slide show of some of the contents of a new book: Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York by James and Karla Murray.
[via Jonne Naarala]
Posted in Art and Design, Audio, Ideas, NPR on Oct 5th, 2009 No Comments »
Faking Fine Art
This was a fascinating OnPoint show interviewing the author of a book on one of the biggest art frauds of the 20th century. A con-man hires a painter to reproduce period paintings and then passes them into the art world by forging provenance papers and more.
The piece I found most interesting was the [...]
Posted in Audio, Humor, NPR, People, Places on Sep 24th, 2009 No Comments »
An Indian Doctor’s Cure-All: Charlie Chaplin
In India, laughing is a serious matter. There are laughing clubs — groups who gather in parks for a collective guffaw to relieve the stresses of daily life.
Ashok Aswani goes one step further: He hands out free DVDs of Charlie Chaplin movies to patients as a cure for depression.
“This makes [...]
Posted in Audio, Creatures, NPR, People on Sep 23rd, 2009 No Comments »
A Dog’s eye View
Tom Ashbrook/OnPoint interviews Alexandra Horowitz, a psychologist specializing in dogs on how dogs perceive the world.
This is a fascinating discussion, well worth listening to whether or not you have a dog (we don’t).
But the way they sense the world is vastly different from our own. These “creature of the nose,” she says, [...]
Posted in Audio, NPR, People, Places, Politics on Sep 22nd, 2009 No Comments »
Forest Whitaker, Getting Behind A ‘Brick City’ Hero
All Things Considered recently did an interview with the actor Forest Whitaker on an upcoming five part documentary (Brick City) about the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, Cory Booker.
Booker has been profiled in The New Yorker and is someone worth reading about and watching. He’s done a lot [...]
Posted in Audio, Humor, NPR, People on Sep 22nd, 2009 No Comments »
Larry Gelbart, Writing For Laughs
Terry Gross interviews Larry Gelbart in 1996 on Fresh Air. Great stuff, brilliant guy who died recently. Gelbart wrote for Cid Caesar and wrote the TV version of MASH among many other things.
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