Sun Tunnels Solstice

Scott’s piece on “Sun Tunnels” (9:21) sculpture in the Utah desert runs this solstice week on The Nature Conservancy’s Nature Stories podcast:

ParkeHarrison Photogravures

Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison Photogravures:

The Navigator (2001) Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison

Reclamation (2003) Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison

ParkeHarrison: Site | Edelman Gallery | Shainman Gallery

Lemon Weather for Duck Jelly

Lemon Jelly “Nice Weather for Ducks” (from Lost Horizons) directed by Nigel Pay:

Harper’s Online Ink

If you’re a Harper’s Magazine subscriber, you can now get pdf versions of paper articles online; e.g., here’s Carrier, Scott – Articles (Harper’s Magazine).

MSM Can Learn from TDS

American Journalism Review “What the Mainstream Media Can Learn From Jon Stewart“:

When Hub Brown’s students first told him they loved “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” and sometimes even relied on it for news, he was, as any responsible journalism professor would be, appalled.

Now he’s a “Daily Show” convert.

“There are days when I watch ‘The Daily Show,’ and I kind of chuckle. There are days when I laugh out loud. There are days when I stand up and point to the TV and say, ‘You’re damn right!’” says Brown, chair of the communications department at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and an associate professor of broadcast journalism.…

As “The Daily’s Show’s” Web site puts it: “One anchor, five correspondents, zero credibility. If you’re tired of the stodginess of the evening newscasts, if you can’t bear to sit through the spinmeisters and shills on the 24-hour cable news networks, don’t miss The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, a nightly half-hour series unburdened by objectivity, journalistic integrity or even accuracy.”

TDS 2007.07.15 Tony Snow on AG-gate:

My Father’s Music cast

This week’s HV cast is a Father’s Day ditty. Going in and out of cool, in syncopated time, a daughter and dad’s ever-changing relationship moves to the beat of a jazz standard. A story by Rebecca Flowers, “My Father’s Music” (mp3 6:30):

Matrix Ping Pong

This 2003 performance won the the annual Japanese show Kinchan and Katori Shingo’s National Costume Competition (欽ちゃん＆香取慎吾の新！仮装大賞); a ping-pong game played matrix-style using kurokos — stagehands in kabuki theatre — to hold up the actors and props:

Writing for Radio- Poynter

At Poynter Online Al Tomkins hosts a series of articles and interviews on Writing for Radio: “Veteran Radio Reporter Shares Secrets to Writing Short,” “Sound for the Eyes: Writing Visually for Audio,” and “When Old Radio Dogs Learn to Use Pics.”