NPR at ATA - April 08
A view of the studio from the street
Recording turned out much better this week. We got everything. And it sounds good. So you can HEAR everything. Of course that means that somehow we have fewer photos. So you can’t reallly SEE everything. I guess that’s all the more reason for you to come down to ATA @ 992 Valencia Street in San Francisco and watch us one of these Saturdays. We’ll be doing it for at least a couple more months.
If you can’t come down and visit us, well you can at least listen to the MP3 files. Soon to be officially “podcast” via libsyn (many thanks to Violet Blue for hooking us up with them). You can begin this weeks listening adventure with a little bit of time travel. At 1pm on Saturday April 08th, our esteemed coleague, Jon Brumit was eating sushi in an airport in Japan, but… hold on… it’s 1pm on April 8th and JB is right here in the NPR studios. What the….? The annihilation of time and space, my friends… Well maybe he’ll play us some beautious manipulated recordings of pachenko parlors from the future…. (MP3).
Michael Starve returns to the NPR airwaves
And wouldn’t you know it, that as soon as Jon travels through time to return to the NPR airwaves, Michael Starve is going to do a little time travel of his own; as he reviews the week’s outrages in the news. Pedophiles in the Department of Homeland Security? Ivy League Cannibal rapists? It’s all right here….(MP3).
Next up Helena Keefe tells LeE the story of her Service Works grant of $256. What did she do with it? She made art. Specifically she got a small group of children to write speeches that they would like to hear George W. Bush deliver, and then had a George W Bush impersonator read them. The project is called “The Past is Over”. And, of course, there was a cake party for the kids too.(MP3).
Our old friends from the HorizonsCenter’s DJ Project came by to talk about Grind and Glory. Arsenio and Nadia talked about their experiences with the DJ Project and the details about how youth can get involved. Grind and Glory is a music seminar and talent showcase for youth and young adults that are eager to enter the music industry and it’s happening Saturday May 27, 2006 at San Francisco State’s Downtown Campus.(MP3).
Throughout the day artist Trish Stone was exploring the virtual world of Morrowind on her Xbox and provided us with weather reports at various points throughout the day. (it is important to note that we have recieved no endorsements from Morrowind or Microsoft, Trish just really likes to hang out in Morrowind, and thought it would be fun to share her experiences)(MP3).
With the weather in Morrowind adequately accounted for we were visited by new NPR volunteer Katina Papson who had intended to speak with her student David about oil politics in Ecuador, but because of technical difficulties, instead aired a recorded interview between her and her grandfather in Spanish. Her Father works at a radio station in Ecuador where this interview was originally done.(MP3).
Another new volunteer, Brad Borevitz stopped in, and in the midst of all the school children’s speeches being read by Bush, Brad talked briefly about his State of the Union project that analyzes the text of all of the state of the union messages since 1790. Other projects by Brad can be viewed at his web site onetwothree.net (MP3)
Ben Furstenberg talks to Amy Balkin about the Invisible 5 project at Southern Exposure
LeE was talking to Brad while Ben was preparing to do a show with Amy Balkin about the collaborative project on display at Southern Exposure gallery titled Invisible 5. Ben interviewed Amy and played excerpts from the audio tour.(MP3)
Have you had enough? Well too bad. We don’t even need batteries and we keep on going. Sam Gould of Red 76 came by after Ben’s show was done and we discussed the work he is doing in San Francisco as part of the Peer Pleasure 2 show at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts titled “How to….”. Specifically we talked about “How To Create a Cultural District and Have it Vanish Into the Morning Mists of Dawn”. It all went kablooie when LeE asked Sam to talk about whether what he’s doing should be counted as art (heh, it’s an important issue for folks like us), but we were happy that he brought Zefrey along, cause Zefrey’s going to do a show for us next week. (MP3)
Dee Dee Russel takes it to the streets
Earlier, you may recall, that we asked if you had had enough yet. Well, if you answered yes, you obviously had no idea what was going to happen at 5pm. That’s right, 5pm is the new time for Ms. Dee Dee Russell to set up shop in our window and tell you a thing or two about yourself and herself. She’ll be doing this for a while, so you better just get comfortable.(MP3)
The brilliance of the 5 o’clock hour continues at 5:30 with Ms. Violet Blue and Open Source Sex. This week, Violet talks to Adam Zimbardo who discusses his work with SFSI and the importance of non-judgemental sex education. Of particular interest is Adam’s debunking of the ‘wildly exaggerated messages about how dangerous’ sexual behaviors can be, and the very reasoned discussion of ‘non-condom prevention methods’. (MP3)
Last but not least, DJ Milton Parker provided us with a brilliant hour of music ranging from field recordings of glaciers to heavy metal guitar solos. ahhh.. guitar solos.(MP3)
Next Saturday it’s Tax Day. We’ll still have fun with the students from the Curatorial Practice Program at Califormia College of Art and their Preserving America’s Cultural Heritage rally.