Technology and the Arts – Episode 59 (12.07.2012) features lightly edited audio from a live Google+ Hangouts On AIr conducted October 28th, 2012. This marked the 2012 series finale and was recorded as Hurricane Sandy was nearing the hosts’ home base of central New Jersey. The episode also features an interview with blogger/podcaster Richard J. Anderson about his brief, hands-on experience with Microsoft Surface at a special event in Times Square…plus a whole lot more. File size: 13 MB. Time: 52 min., 42 sec. Hosts: Brian Kelley and John LeMasney.

John and I will be back for more Technology and the Arts at some point in 2013!

Technology and the Arts – Episode 58 (11.30.2012) features lightly edited audio from a live Google+ Hangouts On AIr that Brian Kelley and John LeMasney conducted October 22nd, 2012. In this installment, we discuss the Museum of Modern Art’s YouTube video series on abstract expressionism and the documentary “Searching for Sugar Man” about obscure 1970s folk-rocker Rodriguez, who was a manual laborer in Detroit, Michigan, while unknowingly a music superstar in South Africa for nearly 40 years…and a whole lot more. File size: 12.8 MB. Time: 52 min., 00 sec. Hosts: Brian Kelley and John LeMasney.

Technology and the Arts – Episode 57 (11.23.2012) features lightly edited audio from a live Google+ Hangouts On AIr that John LeMasney and I conducted October 15th, 2012. In this installment, we discuss John’s WordPress boot camp at Princeton Public Library in New Jersey as well as an artistic tool called FlamePainter. We also talk about Felix Baumgartner’s 24-mile-high skydive, singer Sarah Brightman’s preparation for a flight to the International Space Station and interesting new discoveries about Stonehenge…and a whole lot more. File size: 8.9 MB. Time: 36 min., 04 sec. Hosts: Brian Kelley and John LeMasney.

Technology and the Arts – Episode 56 (11.16.2012) features lightly edited audio from a live Google+ Hangouts On AIr that Brian Kelley and John LeMasney conducted October 8, 2012. In this installment, we discuss NFC tags and their many potential uses, a Brian Eno-created music creation app for the iPad called Scape and a “lost” Steve Jobs speech from 1983 design conference held in Aspen, Colorado…and a whole lot more. File size: 13.5 MB. Time: 55 min., 20 sec. Hosts: Brian Kelley and John LeMasney.

Technology and the Arts – Episode 55 (11.09.2012) features lightly edited audio from a live Google+ Hangouts On AIr that John LeMasney and I conducted October 1, 2012. In this installment, John discusses Ai Weiwei’s Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads exhibit currently installed at Princeton University, as well a documentary about the artist-activist called “Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry.” Meanwhile, Brian talks about the interactive Open Air installation in Philadelphia that transformed recorded messages into searchlight formations over the Ben Franklin Parkway from Sept. 20 through Oct. 14. Plus, Brian shares some thoughts on the Doctor Who season 7 fall finale…and a whole lot more. File size: 8 MB. Time: 32 min., 58 sec. Hosts: Brian Kelley and John LeMasney.

Technology and the Arts – Episode 54 (11.02.2012) features a statement on post-tropical cyclone Sandy and its devastating impacts on the mid-Atlantic and northeast regions of the United States, followed by lightly edited audio from a live Google+ Hangouts On AIr that John LeMasney and I conducted on September 24, 2012. In this installment, John shares his experience of a night of stargazing at Princeton University’s Peyton Observatory, while Brian shares his thoughts on seeing Peter Gabriel in concert in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the release of his classic album, So. John and Brian then discuss the Apple Maps app debacle…and a whole lot more. File size: 13.1 MB. Time: 51 min., 53 sec. Hosts: Brian Kelley and John LeMasney.

Technology and the Arts – Episode 53 (10.26.2012) features lightly edited audio from a live Google+ Hangouts On Air session conducted by hosts Brian Kelley and John LeMasney on Sept. 17, 2012. Highlights include Brian’s discussion about the reunited Ben Folds Five and their video for “Do It Anyway” with the Fraggles from “Fraggle Rock”, and John’s talk about Molly Ringwald’s recent visit to Princeton Public Library in central New Jersey and a local ArtsTechNJ initiative affiliated with Artworks Trenton. Also, John provides a mini tutorial on Inkscape. File size: 13.4 MB. Time: 54 min., 40 sec. Hosts: Brian Kelley and John LeMasney.

Technology and the Arts – Episode 52 features lightly edited audio from a live Google+ Hangouts On Air session conducted by hosts Brian Kelley and John LeMasney on Sept. 4, 2012. Highlights include John’s poor customer experience at TWO local Best Buys in search of a replacement for his lost FitBit, thoughts on the Apple-Samsung lawsuit, a conversation about a crazy Sony patent allowing TV viewers to skip commercials at the cost of their pride and dignity, and a lot more. File size: 14.1 MB. Time: 1 hr., 1 min., 23 sec. Hosts: Brian Kelley and John LeMasney.

The Technology and the Arts podcast, which originally ran from December 2006 to December 2008, was revived as a series of weekly live webcasts by hosts Brian Kelley and John LeMasney in August 2012. Edited versions of the audio portions of these webcasts will be made available in more convenient podcast form. This episode (No. 51) features a conversation between Brian and John that originally took place Aug. 27, 2012. Hosts: Brian Kelley and John LeMasney. File size: 10.6 MB. Time: 44 min., 10 sec.

Technology and the Arts hosts Brian Kelley and John LeMasney recorded this special reunion podcast on the campus of The College of New Jersey in Ewing, NJ, during the 2010 Trenton Computer Festival. Topics discussed include John’s TCF talk on enhancing digital photos with open-source software, his 365 Sketches project and the TEDx NJ Libraries event taking place in Princeton, NJ, on May 7, 2010. Hosts: Brian Kelley and John LeMasney. File size: 8.7 MB. Time: 18 min., 12 sec.