Hearing Voices from NPR®:
036 Paintbrush— Lives of the Artists
Host— Larry Massett of Hearing Voices
Airdates— 11/05/2008 - 11/12/2008

Paintbrush (53:00 mp3):

Susan Stamberg enlists elementary school kids to evaluate the paintings of “Picasso” (14:07), co-produced by host Larry Massett.

Poet Gertrude Stein paints “A Completed Portrait of Picasso” (3:26).

Singer Jonathan Richman believes “No One Was Like Vermeer” (2:30) but “Pablo Picasso” (2:45) was never called an @#%hole.

And a history of injuries and inspiration unfolds in “Frida Kahlo: Viva La Vida” (25:07), an audio biography produced by Katie Davis.

(Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
detail, Pablo Picasso
Museum of Modern Art, New York).

NYT data sets and multimedia design team up with IBM “Many Eyes” technology to bring you the Visualization Lab, where you can create your own “visual representations of data and information,” such as:

Louis “Studs” Terkel Louis (May 16, 1912 – October 31, 2008) signs off America’s latest greatest radio show.

This I Believe “Community in Action” (4:06)

From Studs Terkel: Voices of Our Time; The Original Live Interviews, “Mahalia Jackson, 1963″ (6:20)

Studs links: Wikipedia | Transom Review | Prime Time Radio | WFMT-FM Memories| Chicago Historical Society | WNYC 2003 Interview | Third Coast Luminary | Chicago Tribune

The photographer for 538 has a spread at Daily Kos, “Eight Epic Weeks Across America,” and a collection of outstanding political pix at his site: BrettMarty.com.

A/V- Simple Sound/Slide Shows will be an audio-visual web widget for the masses, a tool which synchronizes sound and images online, built for the needs of small public radio stations and independent producers.

It’s just in planning/possibility stage right now, but this player is our proposal to the Knight News Challenge; read it, rate it, review it.

Don’t answer the phone, and definitely don’t put your hand inside. Aired on NPR Day to Day; by ZBS with music by Tim Clark, from their 90 Second Cellphone Chillin’ Theatre, “The Box” (2:57 mp3):

From 236.com (Political Comedy – Unfair and Unbalanced):

Did watching the 2nd and 3rd debates give you a feeling of déjà vu? This montage of synced-up footage from all three presidential debates confirms our deep-seated belief that every debate was exactly the same.

“Synchronized Presidential Debating:”

Hearing Voices from NPR®:
035 1968— Summer of Hate
Host— Barrett Golding of Hearing Voices
Airdates— 10/29/2008 - 11/05/2008

1968 (53:00 mp3):

It’s another presidential election year; the American people are deeply divided and deeply entrenched in another unpopular war. The topic is not 2008, but 1968. If 1967 was the Summer of Love, maybe 1968 was the Summer of Hate.

We hear Dale Minor report from the battleground during the “Tet Offensive;” part of from Pacifica Radio Archive 1968 Revolution Rewind.

We go live to the “Chicago 1968″ DNC demonstrations, mixed by Barrett Golding. (Voices: Martin Luther King, Jr, Robert Kennedy, Edward Kennedy, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, journalist, police, and demonstrators at Chicago 1968 Democratic National Convention. Music: “Ballad of the Green Beret” by Sgt. Barry Sadler, “For What It’s Worth” original by Buffalo Springfield and cover by The Staple Singers.)

We drink “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,” stirred by producers Ann Heppermann and Kara Oehler. (1968 Tom Wolfe book | 2009 Gus Van Sant film Weekend America “This Weekend in 1968” | Voices: Carolyn Garcia, Mountian Girl” & “Hardly Visible” George Walker | Merry Pranksters)

We hear the songs, speeches, and news reports of the times in “A Shortcut Back to 1968,” sliced by Peter Bochan.