I'm all for sound art, but there's something to be said for keeping the natural soundscape of a place intact.
Monday, July 6, 2009
The Rest is Noise
It appears, gentle reader, that NYC is all over the public sound installation front these days. From the Subways to Central Park , everything seems to be getting an auditory facelift.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Things to Stick in Your Ears
Gentle Reader its that time of year again when people spend a lot of time in cars. Hot sticky cars. Cars that boil inside if left in a parking lot for more than 5 minutes. To distract fevered brains from thier confines I present this. It's my list of favorite podcasts that I think you'd only know about if you wear headphones for a living:
Love and Radio, now defunct .alt npr podcast but still delightful as the day it was streamed
The Bugle, If the BBC was the Daily Show
Wiretap, This Amerian Life for Canada
Dinner Party Download, NPR producers who have finally been totally subsumed into thier work (I love thier motto "We're here so you can win your next dinner party.") They also give you a recipie for a fancy-schmancy cocktail.
Sounds of the Weak, insipration
Thursday, June 4, 2009
We're Number 2?
I love it when Detroit and Baltimore fight...over who has the most murder cred.
oh wait, fight over. the D wins.
oh wait, fight over. the D wins.
Brains!
The Maryland bio research firm NeuralStem, has just been awarded a patent for several new chemicals that promote the regrowth of neurons!
Now, Gentle Reader, I can already hear you saying "um...cool!"
Let me explain. Brain cell are the only ones in your body that don't grow back. This is why drinking is bad and helmets are good. The idea that there might one day be a drug that can promote regrowth of healthy brain tissue after its been damaged is groundbreaking.
For more on this and science worthy of Bill Nye tune in to MDMWSK. Richard Garr, President and CEO of NeuralStem will be on our show on Monday morning talking with Nathan.
Now, Gentle Reader, I can already hear you saying "um...cool!"
Let me explain. Brain cell are the only ones in your body that don't grow back. This is why drinking is bad and helmets are good. The idea that there might one day be a drug that can promote regrowth of healthy brain tissue after its been damaged is groundbreaking.
For more on this and science worthy of Bill Nye tune in to MDMWSK. Richard Garr, President and CEO of NeuralStem will be on our show on Monday morning talking with Nathan.
Annnnnd Re-Post
As I revamp the blog and my media empire ambitions, a little reminder of why I started the thing in the first place:
The question that everyone asks a radio producer, that radio producers ask each other is: "So, are you working on anything you're excited about?" Which translates to, so...tell me something interesting. Entertain me! Do it now!
I hate this question. I loathe it. you have been warned, never ask me this question.
I am now assured that all of you will ask me this question first in any conversation.
But it is useful, it forces you to actually wheedle down all the millions of things you look at in one day and pick out something that actually excites you. Something that YOU are interested in, not something your target demographic might find useful, someday. So here on my little slice of the internet I endevor to bring you just that the "what I learned today in school" of my job.
Now you have no excuse to ask me the dreaded question.
The question that everyone asks a radio producer, that radio producers ask each other is: "So, are you working on anything you're excited about?" Which translates to, so...tell me something interesting. Entertain me! Do it now!
I hate this question. I loathe it. you have been warned, never ask me this question.
I am now assured that all of you will ask me this question first in any conversation.
But it is useful, it forces you to actually wheedle down all the millions of things you look at in one day and pick out something that actually excites you. Something that YOU are interested in, not something your target demographic might find useful, someday. So here on my little slice of the internet I endevor to bring you just that the "what I learned today in school" of my job.
Now you have no excuse to ask me the dreaded question.
Y'all Are Crazy
I used to live in the north. I now live in the south. You might remember, Gentle Reader, there was a war brotha aghainst brotha so on and so forth. There's a line?
Well, several Maryland Officials recently wrote to the State Council of Governments to apply for a change in regional status. They'd like to have the Old Line State, which is currently holds southern status, reclassified as an eastern state.
Despite all the very reasonable arguments that economically, politically and demographically the free state belongs to the "north" I'd just like to point out that there is actually a day on which legislators wear seersucker. I'd say if they're willing to trade for tweed they can switch.
Well, several Maryland Officials recently wrote to the State Council of Governments to apply for a change in regional status. They'd like to have the Old Line State, which is currently holds southern status, reclassified as an eastern state.
Despite all the very reasonable arguments that economically, politically and demographically the free state belongs to the "north" I'd just like to point out that there is actually a day on which legislators wear seersucker. I'd say if they're willing to trade for tweed they can switch.
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