His Bright Materials with James Flynn (Episode 40)

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Click above to listen in your browser or download the podcast directly (MP3, 24 MB, 50 minutes). Subscribe to the show’s podcast feed to get every episode automatically. James Flynn is a New Zealander who relocated to San Francisco where he runs Extrasensory Devices. He’s an engineer who started by developing modems, and then released… Continue reading His Bright Materials with James Flynn (Episode 40)

Pompla Up the Volume with Jack Conte (Episode 39)

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Click above to listen in your browser or download the podcast directly (MP3, 25 MB, 51 minutes). Subscribe to the show’s podcast feed to get every episode automatically. Jack Conte is a musician and entrepreneur, and one-half of the group Pomplamoosewith Nataly Dawn. He and his partner have had millions of people watchtheir videos on… Continue reading Pompla Up the Volume with Jack Conte (Episode 39)

Pictures from a World War I Soldier

My friend, Dean Putney, has a Kickstarter in its last days. His great-grandfather served in the German army in the first World War, and an absurdly well-preserved treasure trove of photographs and stereographs — and the negatives! — were handed down through the family. Dean has made it a mission to preserve and present these… Continue reading Pictures from a World War I Soldier

I Take Mine (Studio) Neat

The fine fellows at Studio Neat, Tom & Dan (interviewed in Episode #26) , launched a new crowdfunding campaign today that they had hinted out when we spoke. The Neat Ice Kit, a great name, will let you create clear ice for cocktails. There’s an advantage to ice without bubbles: it not only looks beautifully, but… Continue reading I Take Mine (Studio) Neat

Episode 36: Machine of Breadth with David Malki

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Click above to listen in your browser or download the podcast directly (MP3, 48 MB, 1 hour 46 minutes). Subscribe to the show’s podcast feed to get every episode automatically. David Malki’s biography would take five minutes to read out. You may know him best as the perpetrator of the cartoon Wondermark,but he’s also a… Continue reading Episode 36: Machine of Breadth with David Malki

Episode 32: Put the Pedal to the Metal with Kyle Durrie

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Click above to listen in your browser or download the podcast directly (MP3, 34.8 MB, 93 minutes). Subscribe to the show’s podcast feed to get every episode automatically. People dream of the open road, but do they dream of hitting the highway with thousands of pounds of metal type? Kyle Durrie did, and she’s spent… Continue reading Episode 32: Put the Pedal to the Metal with Kyle Durrie

Episode 31: Me Eat Pretty Some Day with Matthew Amster-Burton

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Click above to listen in your browser or download the podcast directly (MP3, 31.6 MB, 66 minutes). Subscribe to the show’s podcast feed to get every episode automatically Matthew Amster-Burton is a food writer and host of the podcast Spilled Milk. Matthew has a particular affinity for Japanese food, and that led to a trip… Continue reading Episode 31: Me Eat Pretty Some Day with Matthew Amster-Burton

Episode 29: Matt Bors: The Pen Is Mightier

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Click above to listen in your browser or download the podcast directly (MP3, 37.2 MB, 77 minutes). Subscribe to the show’s podcast feed to get every episode automatically Matt Bors is an independent political cartoonist. He’s never had a staff job, and he’s never drawn a banker holding bags of money where the banker is… Continue reading Episode 29: Matt Bors: The Pen Is Mightier

Episode 28: Hugs and Kisses from Portland: Andy Baio and Andy McMillan on XOXO

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Click above to listen in your browser or download the podcast directly (MP3, 38.4 MB, 80 minutes). Subscribe to the show’s podcast feed to get every episode automatically Andy Baio and Andy McMillan had the simultaneous idea for an arts-and-technology conference, and the synchronistic good fortune to wind up in the same city at the… Continue reading Episode 28: Hugs and Kisses from Portland: Andy Baio and Andy McMillan on XOXO

Episode 26: Dan Provost & Tom Gerhardt (Studio Neat): Living in the Back It Bracket

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Click above to listen in your browser or download the podcast directly (MP3, 28 MB, 58 minutes). Subscribe to the show’s podcast feed to get every episode automatically Tom Gerhardt and Dan Provost are the two fellows behind Studio Neat, a three-year-old industrial design and software firm that started with an almost accidental bang on… Continue reading Episode 26: Dan Provost & Tom Gerhardt (Studio Neat): Living in the Back It Bracket