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On My Radar: 9/16/11
David Byrne blows up the world (under the High Line) (@NYMag) My favorite New York eclecticist, David Byrne, has created a temporary installation under the High Line at 25th Street: a blown-up globe, like a giant beach ball version of the globes on which we learned geography in school, stuffed under a section of the High Line. The temporary installation, called Tight Spot, includes an audio feature (of course) also created by DB. It will be in place until October … Continue reading
Posted in Audio, Books, Design, Entertainment, Movies, Music, Photography, Video
Tagged albert brooks, bob dylan, contagion, david byrne, drive, high line, matt damon, michael stipe, nevermind, nirvana, nyc, nymag, patti smith, Photography, studio 360, tv
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The Myth of Human Progress: A Conversation with Chris Hedges
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges was on The Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC yesterday for a fascinating and intelligent conversation yesterday about the state of journalism, politics, society, media and human civilization. The show was extremely enlightening and satisfying for any intelligent ear interested in media and our culture. Mr. Hedges is the author of a new book, The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress. Here is the text from WNYC: Chris Hedges, senior … Continue reading
How To Be A Man: A Talk With Glenn O’Brien
Glenn O’Brien is a writer-at-large, and currently featured regularly in GQ Magazine as “The Style Guy.” He studied film as a graduate student at Columbia, and, after publishing a review for a film, was hired by Andy Warhol as a music critic for Warhol’s then nine month old magazine called Interview. In the late ’70s and early ’80s, he hosted a cable-access program called TV Party, which featured downtown art and music figures like David Byrne, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Blondie and … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Lifestyle
Tagged factory, glenn o'brien, gq, how to be a man, interview, magazine, new york, pri, style, warhol
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Rob Lowe ‘Off The Cuff’ With Peter Travers
A fun six and a half minutes with Brat Pack alumnus Rob Lowe with Rolling Stone film critic Peter Travers… The infamous sex tape, acting gigs, sobriety and Charlie Sheen. Continue reading
Posted in Books, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Movies, Video, Web Video
Tagged peter travers, rob lowe, rolling stone
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A New Kind of Digital Book
I came across this on Twitter. A major hats-off to developer Mike Matas, who has created a very sexy way to experience a book. I look forward to reading it. [Or is "experiencing it" more accurate?] From TED: Software developer Mike Matas demos the first full-length interactive book for the iPad — with clever, swipeable video and graphics and some very cool data visualizations to play with. The book is “Our Choice,” Al Gore‘s sequel to “An Inconvenient Truth.” Links: … Continue reading
Neil Stauss on WNYC’s Soundcheck With His Rock Tell-All
Rock journalist Neil Strauss talks to John Schaefer about his new book, Everyone Loves You When You’re Dead: Journeys into Fame and Madness, with stories of his adventures being “embedded” in the lives of the famous. Visiting on mobile? Click here to listen. Related Links: WNYC’s Soundcheck Everyone Loves You When You’re Dead on Amazon
Posted in Audio, Books, Entertainment, Music
Tagged celebrities, famous, music, rock & roll, soundcheck, wnyc
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Alphabetic Bookshelf
This Alphabetic Bookshelf will certainly not win a prize for being the most useful bookshelf out there, but it sure makes a typography lover like me happy… Continue reading
Patti Smith + Robert Mapplethorpe on WNYC
Patti Smith was on The Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC on Tuesday January 19th. She was there to talk about the book she’s written about the early days of her friendship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, who died of AIDS in 1989. The book is called Just Kids: From Brooklyn to the Chelsea Hotel, a Life of Art and Friendship, and covers Patti’s life with Mapplethorpe in the 1960s and 1970s in New York City. The 25 minute interview on Leonard … Continue reading
