Dan Provost and Tom Gerhardt are Studio Neat, a small design and software group that produces nifty products. They began with the Glif, and when I talked to them last over a year ago, they had launched their second software product and were deep in planning on a new, more complicated item: the Neat Ice… Continue reading Nice and Neat with Dan Provost and Tom Gerhardt (Episode 89)
Category: Podcasts
Set Your Radio Dial to Maximum Fun with Jesse Thorn (Episode 88)
Jesse Thorn is a polycast — a polymath of podcasts. He helped define the form by taking a show that he developed with others on a college radio station and making it into a podcast in 2004. That show, the Sound of Young America, now called Bullseye, focuses on interesting cultural trends and sports in-depth interviews,… Continue reading Set Your Radio Dial to Maximum Fun with Jesse Thorn (Episode 88)
How to Feel Real App Appeal with Garrett Murray (Episode 87)
Garrett Murray is the founder and creative director of Karbon, an app-development firm. But software isn’t his whole life; he also happens to be an award-winning filmmaker. His firm developed the apps Scratch, a quick-input notepad for iPhone, and Ego, for tracking all your Web status in a single glance. Actor Tom Hanks just singled… Continue reading How to Feel Real App Appeal with Garrett Murray (Episode 87)
Bakfiets to the Future with Phillip Ross (Episode 86)
Phillip Ross is one of the fellows behind Metrofiets, a company that makes cargo bikes — a kind of transportation vehicle developed in the Netherlands, and known as bakfietsen there. He and his partner James Nichols build their bikes in Portland, Oregon. Phil helped bring Critical Mass to Portland and is the co-creator and producer… Continue reading Bakfiets to the Future with Phillip Ross (Episode 86)
Welcome to the World of Tomorrow with Nicole Dieker (Episode 85)
Nicole Dieker wears a lot of hats, as well as a brown coat. She’s a freelance copywriter and ghostwriter, pens fiction, and writes essays. She’s also a musician who bootstrapped herself out of a convention to which she returns every year, a rock climber, a Firefly fan, a whiskey drinker, and much more. Nicole wears… Continue reading Welcome to the World of Tomorrow with Nicole Dieker (Episode 85)
Depth Takes a Holiday with Amanda Warner and Brianna Wu (Episode 84)
Giant Spacekat, founded by Brianna Wu and Amanda Warner, released their first game today: Revolution 60. It’s a cinematic-style, live-rendered game with rich dialog and interaction that employs strong female characters. Brianna is also a co-host of the Isometric podcast. We talk about illustration, independence, and meeting (and exceeding) expectations. Sponsors and patrons This podcast… Continue reading Depth Takes a Holiday with Amanda Warner and Brianna Wu (Episode 84)
Conjunction Junction with Oni Hartstein and James Harknell (Episode 83)
Oni and Harknell founded Intervention (Internet + Convention) after constantly fielding questions from creators looking for advice; it’s now in its fifth year. The partners created the event aimed at people trying to make their own opportunities to express creativity, often with a commercial angle as part of a career, while keeping it affordable, accessible,… Continue reading Conjunction Junction with Oni Hartstein and James Harknell (Episode 83)
Into the Bellwoods with Lucy Bellwood (Episode 82)
Lucy Bellwood is a Portland cartoonist who started her working life with a crowdfunding campaign. She’s a member of Periscope Studio, a loosely affiliated working space and collective of which I’ve interviewed other members. True Believer was the outcome of her Kickstarter project, and she’s built a career from there. Sponsors and patrons This podcast… Continue reading Into the Bellwoods with Lucy Bellwood (Episode 82)
Be Kind, Fast Forward with Jamie Wilkinson (Episode 81)
Jamie Wilkinson is the co-founder and CEO of VHX, a service that delivers movies online to the customers of filmmakers. They exist in sharp contrast to many video sites — operated by the likes of Amazon, Apple, and others — in that they only deliver films free of digital rights management, take a sliver of… Continue reading Be Kind, Fast Forward with Jamie Wilkinson (Episode 81)
It’s Like Money You Can’t Hold with Chris Higgins and Adam Cornelius (Episode 80)
Adam Cornelius and Chris Higgins are making the film Coined, about the rise of cryptocurrency. They previously worked together on Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters. Adam is a documentary filmmaker; Chris, a journalist. They’ve just launched a Kickstarter to fund Coined, and have shot quite a bit of footage already. We talk about what… Continue reading It’s Like Money You Can’t Hold with Chris Higgins and Adam Cornelius (Episode 80)