Our Second Episode
If you missed the broadcast of our second pilot, you can download it by RIGHT-CLICKING HERE.
You’ll hear:
- A Day at the Museum — Michelle Swinehart shares some interviews she did with museum guards at the Portland Art Museum. We ask: what do they think when they’re watching us?
- The Soundtrack of a Portraitist As a Young Man — Internationally celebrated artist Storm Tharp plays some of the music behind his stunning and unique portraits.
- That’s My Job: Forensic Anthropologist — Nici Vance shows us around the Oregon State Medical Examiners Office and then talks about the steps she takes to identify bodies, as well as the beauty of bones.
- Herding Cats — For a photo shoot, the band AgesandAges told photographer Alicia J. Rose that they wanted to herd cats. Seven band members, twelve cats, one photographer. Kitty chaos ensues.
- I’ll Always Be An Indian Citizen… In My Mind — Linfield College professor and author Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt discusses going home to India with an American passport—a foreigner to her own family.
- Run, Will, Run — Will George reads from his high school journal about his three loves — running, Nancy, and lunch — at the Portland performance series Mortified.
Extracurricular reading and listening material after the jump…
A Day at the Museum — Michelle Swinehart visits with Dave to share excerpts from interviews she did with museum guards at the Portland Art Museum. We ask: what do they think when they’re watching us? And we learn about some of the strange things people do at a museum.
The Soundtrack of a Portraitist As a Young Man — One of the museum guards said there’s music behind the paintings, so I went to see the artist Storm Tharp in his studio to find out how music influences his painting. It turns out he actually makes soundtracks for individual shows and periods. You can see photos of his work and his studio, as well as a list of the songs he discussed with us, on our blog post about Storm.
That’s My Job: Forensic Anthropologist — “That’s My Job” is a new segment that explores ordinary Portlanders at work. (You can learn more about our plans for the segment, and suggest jobs for future shows, here.) For our first installment, we visited forensic anthropologist Nici Vance at the Oregon State Medical Examiners Office.
Herding Cats — When the band AgesandAges approached photographer Alicia J. Rose about doing a photo shoot, bandleader Tim Perry said they wanted to herd cats. So the seven band members and several friends tried to get as many cats as possible into a living room. Things didn’t go as planned. To see photos of the afternoon, as well as the final photo, go to the Herding Cats blog post.
AgesandAges’ debut album, Alright, You Restless, comes out in February 2011. You can hear several of their songs on their MySpace page.
I’ll Always Be An Indian Citizen… In My Mind — Professor and author Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt talks with Dave about going home to India with an American passport, as a foreigner to her own family. Her new book is called The Postcolonial Citizen: The Intellectual Migrant. You can read the oath of citizenship, and listen to poem Reshmi wrote about taking it, here.
Run, Will, Run — Mortified is a performance series where adults read journals, letters, or show home videos from their teen years. In other words, it’s a comic appropriation of those moments we once wanted desperately to forget. Here, Will George reads from his high school journal about his three loves: running, Nancy and lunch. The next Mortified event is February 10th and 11th at the Mission Theater. Click here for tickets.
