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HV050- Love’s Labors

BG — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:00:16 +0000

For Valentine's Day, affairs of the heart and the intricacies of intimacy.

Stereogranimator NYPL

BG — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:01:09 +0000

The NY Public Library has come up with a Stereogranimator: Create and share animated GIFs and 3D anaglyphs using more than 40,000 stereographs from The New York Public Library. Witness the Stereogranimator in action:

Clothesline Revival

BG — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:25:15 +0000

It’s like these 1940s movies were made just so, 70 years later, they could accompany the music of Clothesline Revival: Clothesline Revival has a couple HV connections. They helped create a mess in our Food Fight episode. And we produced the NPR Story “Clothesline Revival’s ‘Long Gone’” (also check NPR’s “Music Review: ‘Of My Native [...]

Grand Rapids LipDub

HV — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:56:16 +0000

Here’s some real hyperlocal community journalism for ya, with a beat, “The Grand Rapids LipDub;” The Grand Rapids LipDub Video was filmed May 22nd, with 5,000 people, and involved a major shutdown of downtown Grand Rapids, which was filled with marching bands, parades, weddings, motorcades, bridges on fire, and helicopter take offs. It is the [...]

HV052- Circus Blood

BG — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:00:00 +0000

A world-class troupe of audio daredevils and media magicians.

Tahrir Storify

BG — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:51:27 +0000

“Voices from Tahrir”, a Storify list of sources, resources, sounds, inspirations, and videos used in the making of the public radio hour: [View the story "Voices from Tahrir" on Storify]

HV131- Voices from Tahrir

BG — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:41:34 +0000

Eyewitness, first-person accounts of the January 2011 Egyptian uprising.

xkcd: Sustainable

BG — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:12:47 +0000

For decades we in pubradio have been hearing about a mystical “sustainable” creature, s’posed to be lurking around our endeavors: sustainable series, sustainable projects, sustainable programs. Well, ‘cording to the latest xkcd, we’re not alone in constantly chasing but never finding that mythical phantom:

HV013- Crossing Borders

BG — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:10:01 +0000

A tale of two countries, from Mexico to US.

HV130- Shortcuts 2011

BG — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:46:45 +0000

A year in an hour, in speeches, songs, events, and tributes to people who past last year.

Western Soundscape Archive

BG — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:41:23 +0000

The Western Soundscape Archive houses thousands of audio recordings: “570 different Western bird species, all of the region’s vocalizing frogs and toads, dozens of reptiles and more than 100 different types of mammals,” with dozens ambient field soundscapes of the West remote wildlands. Many of the recordings are are Creative Commons licensed for non-comm use. Here’s [...]

800 Newpaper Front Pages

BG — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:10:53 +0000

“Today’s Front Pages: Map View” is the Newseum’s new map-based browsing app — click open page one of 800+ worldwide newspapers:

HV099- Polk Street Stories

BG — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:42:28 +0000

An oral history of San Francisco's premiere queer neighborhood.

Upular (Virtual 3D)

BG — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:34:37 +0000

Could this Aussie kid be any more talented? An airy-er vers of Pogo’s ‘Upular’: ‘Upular’ (Virtual 3D) by PogoMix Stereo headphones required. Earphones work best. A virtual 3D recording of my track ‘Upular’ playing through a pair of club speakers as you walk around the venue. Someone requested this and I thought it was a [...]

Move

BG — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:58:06 +0000

“MOVE” by director Rick Mereki: 3 guys, 44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights, 38 thousand miles, an exploding volcano, 2 cameras and almost a terabyte of footage… all to turn 3 ambitious linear concepts based on movement, learning and food ….into 3 beautiful and hopefully compelling short films….. = a trip of a lifetime. move, [...]

Voices from Tahrir

BG — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:52:02 +0000

A preview of our upcoming HV hour, “Voices from Tahrir” — a collaboration with Human Rights Watch. This public radio documentary features eyewitness accounts and recordings of the January uprisings (January 25 – February 11 2011) — the one-year anniversary approches: “Voices from Tahrir- preview” (9:51 mp3):

Peter Segal: Cash-for-Tote-Bags Scandal…

BG — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:42:49 +0000

And other 2012 news hypotheticals from XKCD regarding the NPR Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! host:

Fulton’s Frogs

BG — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:32:53 +0000

The ZBS Foundation has long been at the forefront of the dramatic radio arts. Their podcast is a great survey of their audio excursions, mixing flights of fancy with real sound effects. Check Podcast #8, “Weird Frogs” (7:55 mp3): “Meatball Fulton plays really weird frogs he recorded in the Amazon, Bali, Lombok, Mexico, and the [...]

HV026- Prime Candidates

BG — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:09:32 +0000

A gallery of presidential portraits from past primaries.

Maccabeats Miracle

BG — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 07:21:46 +0000

Light ‘em up, folks, it’s a g-ddam “Miracle”, more Hanukkah harmonies from the Maccabeats and for their Miracle Match Bone Marrow Foundation fundraiser: Need more Maccabeats? So did Adolf:

HV129- HanukkahChristmashup

BG — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 23:14:16 +0000

Christmas at a Bagram Air Base hospital (Afghanistan), a tour of the Holy Land, Hanukkah military history, a visit to a toy store; and musical Chrismashups.

United States Artists Xmas

BG — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:42:16 +0000

A nice Christmas greeting from United States Artists — who we love for majorly supporting American artists, including radio artists, such as this years USA Rockefeller Fellows Kara Oehler & Ann Heppermann:

Mission Control: SomaFM

BG — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:40:58 +0000

NASA recently helped launch the net radio channel Third Rock Radio, playing questionable to good rock n’ roll along with NASA news updates. But Rich Rarey of NPR Labs pointed out (on Pubradio) there’s already a fine NASA-centric, space music channel on SofaFM called Mission Control, “Celebrating NASA and Space Explorers everywhere.” The feed is [...]

HV128- Prisoners of War

BG — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 20:44:15 +0000

Four American soldiers share their WWII experiences, before, during, and after their time in a German POW camp.