Hearing Voices uses the WPAudioPlayer plug, which, since it’s Flash, the iPhone can’t see. But iPhone Safari is HTML 5 aware, and supports mp3 play. So here’s our quick&filthy fix. In the file: /plugins/audio-player/audio-player.php, find the: function getPlayer, and w/in that the variable: $playerCode. More…
Hearing Voices from NPR®
114 Psychological: States Of Mental Health
Host: Barrett Golding of Hearing Voices
Airs week of: 2011-04-20
“Psychological” (52:00 mp3):
Three Diagnoses– Depression, Amnesia, Mental Breakdown (image: Rorschach test Card VI):
12-year-old Cameron Ledoux’s father doesn’t work, because of his deep depression. Cameron dialogs with his dad about the condition. Produced at The Salt Institute for Documentary Studies; broadcast by All In The Mind; podcast on Saltcast, with thie follow-up, “Sit With Me Again.” (Music: “Leaves Falling” by Lullatone from We Will Rock You… To Sleep: An Introduction to Lullatone).
A quest for amnesia victims — it happens a lot more in movies, books and TV shows than real life. An attempt to find someone who has really had amnesia, to give someone amnesia, and to get it. Aired on This American Life “Get Over It!” and “The Friendly Man.”
A sonic journey documenting one woman’s loss of reality and descent into mental breakdown; a first-person account, with the voices of her friends who witnessed her collapse. Available as an audiobook: “Breakdown and Back.”
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From the Rauch Brothers‘s animations of StoryCorps pieces, “Germans in the Woods” (used in HV’s For the Fallen):
Germans in the Woods: Joseph Robertson was an infantryman in the U.S. Army during World War II, where he fought in the Battle of the Bulge. The stark black and white images in this short haunt the viewer, just as Robertson is haunted by his memories from that battle. (Directed by: The Rauch Brothers. Art Direction: The Rauch Brothers. Background Painting: Iandry Randriamandroso & Tim Rauch. Producers: Mike Rauch & Lizzie Jacobs. Animation: Tim Rauch. Audio Produced by: Michael Garofalo. Music: Fredrik. Label: The Kora Records. Publisher: House of Hassle.)
See all the animations: StoryCorps | Vimeo | YouTube.
“This is the web right now” —The Oatmeal. From Feeding Humans to Facebook to HTML5 Cheetah Balls, a series of cartoons on The State of the Web, including:
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Hand-crafting Excerpts for Pages got a lot easier in in WordPress 3+. Put this in your functions.php:
add_post_type_support( 'page', 'excerpt' );
And voilà , an Excerpt textarea should now show on your Edit Page screen (make sure “Excerpt” is checked in Edit Page»Screen Options). To extract Pages’ Excerpts…
A new Pogo video was one of 25 (out of 25K) selected for the Guggenheim/YouTube Play, A Biennial of Creative Video.
Sez Pogo: “Comprising my mother’s voice and the sounds of her garden, this video is my first mix of the real world. I hope I’ve done my mother justice in capturing her passion:”
Dwonload the “Gardyn” mp3, wav or video at: PogoMix.net.
Want an interview w/ Jay Thunderbolt, At-Home Strip Club Manager? Well, bring money. If you can’t, bring booze. But not beer: Jay drinks Tequila. And he’ll drink the whole bottle with you in a couple hours, while unleashing The Wisdom of Jay Thunderbolt.
His face looks like that b/c he was shot in the head and left for dead — at 11yo. How much is a dance? “$10 with the g-string on; $20 with it off. No licking, sticking, biting or slapping.”
The piece is a Love + Radio podcast (28min) with some wonderful moments. Jay’s “Things I do know…” is pure poetry, as is the original music score by Brendan Baker — love that “Doberman” mix near the top.
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Great artistry is grand larceny. So here’s your manual for “How To Steal Like An Artist:”
Every artist gets asked the question, “Where do you get your ideas?â€
The honest artist answers, “I steal them.â€
Nothing is Original. It says it right there in the Bible. Ecclesiastes: “That which has been is what will be, That which is done is what will be done, And there is nothing new under the sun.”
1 + 1 = 3.
Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of previous ideas…
You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life. You are the sum of your influences. The German writer Goethe said, “We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.â€
The Artist is a Collector… More…
From Photoshop to grid to WordPress to code and back again, a 3-minute sped-up up series of screenshots encapsulating The making of an Obox Theme
“The Making of an Obox Theme” by Josh Hemsley for WPCandy. Obox makes Themes for WordPress, Tumbler and Posterous.
Iggy Pop music interpreted by HOUSE production and casting:
A stylized take on the casting process created with diegetic sound, shot at House Production & Casting and Milk Studios.
Public radio’s annual April 1 attempts at humor are often as funny as a Farm Report. But there were a couple exceptions in this year’s crop.
Here & Now nailed me, and their host, in “Social Media Experiment: Twitter Takes Over Radio Airwaves” (5:24 mp3):
“Most of the midday NPR programming is geared towards people in their sixties and seventies,†said Smith. “We want to expand our audience to a younger demographic.â€
And NPR Morning Edition was quick and clever with “Advances In 3-D May Mean No Ridiculous Glasses” (1:42 mp3):
Mr. ANDERSON SMITH (YHR Analysts): Well, I think it’s pretty well established that 3D is the future.
SANDS-WINDSOR: That’s Anderson Smith, entertainment expert with YHR Analysts.
Mr. SMITH: There are going to be 3D televisions, 3D billboards, 3D computers. The only thing standing in the way now is those ridiculous glasses.
SANDS-WINDSOR: San Diego ophthalmologist Dr. Sebastian Marsh says he has a solution.
Dr. SEBASTIAN MARSH (Ophthalmologist): We’ve developed the first surgical procedure that lets people’s eyes act like 3D glasses.
SANDS-WINDSOR: The operation is still considered experimental. One of the first patients, Rebecca Stern, says she’s happy with the results so far.
Ms. REBECCA STERN: Seeing “Gnomeo & Juliet” without those horrible glasses was life changing. There are no words to describe it.
SANDS-WINDSOR: There are still some kinks to work out.
Dr. MARSH: Some patients have complained of blurred vision when they are not looking at 3D screens. So we’re actually working now on some special corrective lenses that will allow our patients to see real life normally.
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Stick w/ it till 1:30. More…
Hearing Voices from NPR®
113 Hippies: Flying our Freak Flag
Host: Barrett Golding of Hearing Voices
Airs week of: 2011-03-30
“Hippies” (52:00 mp3):
Tuning in and turning onto alt.Hippie.history:
A couple choice fearsome, loathsome filmclips, with J. Depp conjuring Dr Hunter S Thompson on the subject of Hippie history, from A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream.
From the VPOTUSA’s Greastest Hits, Spiro T. Agnew Speaks Out.
With the blessings of the Hendrix family and the record company, the band remixed Jimi’s “If Six was 9,” and other songs, into the album If 60’s Were 90’s.
Interviews with Merry Pranksters Mountain Girl (Carolyn Garcia) and Hardly Visible (George Walker); mixed with audio from the Prankster archives and other 60s esoterica. Produced for PRI Weekend America. (Above photo: courtesy of Zane Kesey.)
Assignment Afghanistan: Writer/photographer Elliott Woods gathered some devastating sounds & stories during his 2010 embed with Lima Company, US Marines. HV collaborators, Jesse Dukes with Shea Shackelford, produced the slideshow series for the Virginia Quarterly Review.
Here’s “Our Deepest Sympathies:”
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HV officially in Road to Final 4 mode. So radio/net/etc. talk slow till Madness subsides.
Hearing Voices from NPR®
112 Native America: Our Nation’s First Nations
Host: Barrett Golding of Hearing Voices
Airs week of: 2011-03-16
“Native America” (52:00 mp3):
Canoes, horses, poems, and songs in the heart of Native America:
From the soundtrack, The United States Of Poetry
USOP project. Music by Tomandandy.
A National Geographic / NPR Radio Expeditions: Nez Perce tribal members and Forest Service workers travel the Nez Perce Trail on horseback, looking for lost histories and common ground. Featues Nez Perce elder Horace Axtell. Producer: Carolyn Jensen Chadwick, editor: Christopher Joyce; engineer: Suraya Mohamed.
From the CD Traveling Circus
From the album, Bone Days, 
Oakbog, Adam Rosen’s Mac Support Service, has published a list of their Mac ‘puter Newsletter Tips. I’ve been using hell outta Double-Click Columns to Resize in Finder: in Column view, 2-click the scrollbar bottom (the “II”) to resize window to fit the longest filename.
And this one might save lives: Ejecting a CD or DVD from a non-booting (or cantankerous) Mac.
While there, do check Adam’s audio collage: “Lion Sleeps Tonight – an Afro-American Odyssey.”
Pi may be an irrational, transcendental, decimally never ending nor repeating constant. But it does play well with others, at least on the musical scale. Musician Michael Blake of Quebec Antique performs some Pi slices — out to 31 places:
The Library of Congress exhibit Bound for Glory: America in Color displayed some of the only color photos of Great Depression rural and small towns in America. Photographers in the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information shot these images between 1939 and 1943, during Kodachrome’s dawn. The Denver Post selected a few dozen for their blog-post “Captured: Great Depression Photos: America in Color 1939-1943.” Here’s just a few:
Barker at the grounds at the state fair. Rutland, Vermont, September 1941 More…
