Thomas M. Disch (author), Brian Aldiss (author), Kim Stanley Robinson (author), Tim Powers (author), Terry Gilliam (filmmaker), Lawrence Sutin (biographer), Paul Williams (biographer), Barry Spatz (analyst), Kleo Mini (second wife), Anne Dick (third wife), Tessa Dick (fifth wife), Jim Blaylock (friend), Russel Galen (agent) talk about Philip K. Dick and his writings in this 1994 TV documentary made for BBC TV’s Arena. The interstitial readings from Dick’s fiction are narrated by Greg Proops.
1126 Fransisco St, Berkley, CA – home of Philip K. Dick from 1950 to 1958:
ReCivilization is a new five part CBC radio show, by Don Tapscott one of the authors of Wikinomics and Macrowiknomics. The show is podcast and I’ve subscribed. I heard its first episode on the radio a few minutes ago starting about half-way through. It looks to be a pretty thoughtful show. There was an interview Sue Gardner (of the Wikimedia foundation) and Leo Laporte (of TWiT). Like CBC’s Spark the producers of ReCivilization are adding extended interviews to the website and blog.
Here’s the description:
In the first installment of ReCivilization, Don looks at the media and how the industrial-age model of mass production is giving way to new, collaborative and citizen journalism, enabled by the web. Under the old model, newspapers and broadcasters delivered the news to passive listeners and readers; in this new, digital age, anyone can be a publisher or a broadcaster – and traditional media is being forced to adapt. The episode also introduces Anthony D. Williams, Don’s longtime collaborator and a regular contributor to the series.
My students with an afternoon of swooshable LEGO creations:
LAMLradio is a podcast about LEGO! As you can see by the images above I’m a big LEGO fan. I still have all (or almost all) of my LEGO back from when I was a kid. LEGO is a great toy because it allows you to build your own toys. But it’s more than a toy. In fact when I was talking to a professional artist last fall I was trying to convince him that it was a form of art. I’m not sure what art is, but I am sure that LEGO is a medium for sculpture.
If you’re not convinced check out this interview with one such LEGO artist known for his Maschinen Krieger ZbV 3000 LEGO creations (a style of kitbash art from Japan begun in the 1980s and inspired by WWI, WWII, the American space program, Star Wars, Blade Runner and The Road Warrior).
LAMLradio #103 – An interview with .Tromas of Prince George, BC (about Ma.K LEGO creations) |MP3|
Craig Black, the founder and CEO of Blackstone audio has today reported, on the Blackstone audio blog, the death of audio dramatist Yuri Rasovsky. Black calls Rasovsky “the greatest audio dramatist of our modern age.”
Among American audio dramatists of the last thirty years he was absolutely preeminent.
Pulped! The New Pulp Podcast features an interview with Paul Bishop of the terrific Bish’s Beat blog.
“Join Hosts Tommy Hancock and Derrick Ferguson as they discuss Sports Pulp, Crime Fiction, Old Time Radio Pulp, and more with Pulp and Crime Writer Paul Bishop!”
Bish and the hosts talk about every kind of pulp fiction you can imagine, his recent reality TV series (Take The Money And Run), Michael Mann’s Crime Story, Diagnosis Murder, Dragnet, and the new Fight Card series of boxing novellas (print and ebooks).
An upcoming episode of The SFFaudio Podcast will be a discussion of Little Brother by Cory Doctorow |READ OUR REVIEW|. The audiobook is available from Random House Audio (not through audible).
I reviewed it back in 2008 but in listening to it again it seems even more relevant today than it was then.
And while we’re on the subject this stage play adaptation, it opened last week in San Fransisco, looks really terrific!
