Lou Anders is the editorial director of Prometheus Books’ science fiction and fantasy imprint Pyr, as well as several anthologies. In 2000, he served as the Executive Editor of Bookface.com, and before that he worked as the Los Angeles Liaison for Titan Publishing Group. He is the author of The Making of Star Trek: First Contact (Titan Books, 1996), and has published over 500 articles in such magazines as The Believer, Publishers Weekly, Dreamwatch, DeathRay, free inquiry, Star Trek Monthly, Star Wars Monthly, Babylon 5 Magazine, Sci Fi Universe, Doctor Who Magazine, and Manga Max.
Lou and I talked about the iPhone, tricorders, the batmobile, writing, errings, and his wife’s cooking among other things.
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Professor Robert Beaulieu teaches textile science and development at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology. This is the second part of our talk.
This time he discusses wool, those labels in all our shirts and clothes, distressing leather jackets, and case of about a mouton collar.
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Professor Robert Beaulieu teaches textile science and development at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology. I took an introduction to textile science class more than ten years ago, but I think about the class often and have told stories borrowed from Robert’s lectures at cocktail parties.
We talk about Levis Strauss, jeans, denim, polyester leisure suits, pills, and more. And this is part one of the interview, which will continue soon.
FIT’s Textile Development and Marketing home page.
A link to the YouTube movie of the guitar prodigy who plays Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head.
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Alexander Grecian left a successful advertising career, representing clients as diverse as Sprint and Harley-Davidson, to become a freelance writer. He’s been published in several indy comics anthologies, including Negative Burn (Image) and one of the 24-Hour Comics books (the one that also included stories by Neil Gaiman and Steve Bissette). He wrote the critically acclaimed original graphic novel, Seven Sons (AiT/Planet Lar) and he currently writes and letters the comic book series Proof (Image Comics).
He’s also created numerous typefaces for his own foundry, Elemeno, storyboarded and directed television commercials and designed logos for many companies and publications. Alex’s site is http://alexandergrecian.com/
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Charlie Huston is the author of the Hank Thompson trilogy which includes the Edgar-nominated “Six Bad Things,” the Joe Pitt Casebooks, the Los Angeles Times bestseller, and “The Shotgun Rule.” I spoke to him between readings for his new book titled, “The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death.” We spoke about sports, giving away books, writing, and eavesdropping among other things.
Charlie Huston’s web-site is PulpNoir.com. Click here for the Wikipedia entry about him.
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Mark Okrant is a professor of tourism management at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire. A few years ago, when the University cut back on his classes field trips, Mark wrote a murder mystery at a resort that dealt with tourism issues and now he and other schools use his novel as a textbook.
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Evan Doorbell was the pseudonym used by a well-known but somewhat mysterious phone phreak of the 1970s. His claim to fame is the vast archive of high-quality tape recordings he made of the telephone network of the period, many of which have in recent years been edited and narrated by Doorbell himself, and presented on the World Wide Web at fellow phreak, Mark Bernay’s, web site, Phone Trips.
In this edition of If You’re Just Joining Us, we listen to part one of this amazing recording about phone noises from the 70′s, which is really about curiosity and noticing.
More Phone Phreak tapes, including parts 2 through 6 of Evan Doorbell’s “How I Became” series can be found at: Phone Trips. For MP3 versions of Evan Doorbell’s story they are at ftp://ftp.wideweb.com/GroupBell/ Just scroll down and look for HowBPhreak2HQ etc.
See the Wikipedia entry on Phreaking.
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David Friedman is a professional photographer based in New York. For several years he was the staff photographer for Ralph Lauren. We talked about his visit to a denim distressing factory in Kentucky where they take new jeans, wash, bleach, tear and shred them. We also spoke about his own photography, a story about a very messy man, and his blog Ironic Sans.
David’s blog Ironic Sans.
Additional audio:
In Kentucky, Jeans Get The Right ‘Wear’ by Noah Adams
Corcoran Museum Showcases Photographer Richard Avedon’s ‘Portraits of Power’
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Nathan Singer is a novelist, playwright, composer, and experimental performing artist from Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the author of the critically acclaimed novels A Prayer for Dawn, Chasing the Wolf, and In the Light of You. He teaches writing at Northern Kentucky University and the University of Cincinnati.
Nathan and I spoke about writing workshop cliches, some strange emails he had gotten about his latest novel, In the Light of You, the rewards of teaching writing, and “performance art” among other things.
Nathan Singer’s web site is NathanSinger.net
His novel, In the Light of You was published by Bleak House Books.
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Deborah Duchon is a noted nutritional anthropologist, teacher, author and speaker, best known for her work on the hit TV show, Good Eats. She served as director of the Nutrition Education for New Americans Project at Georgia State University, in Atlanta. These days, she is studying the exotic origins of everyday foods, by investigating their un-domesticated beginnings and working forward to the present day.
Deborah and I talked about onions, Hmong refugees, black night-shade, potatoes, theater, and women in anthropology.
Her site is at: www.debduchon.com.
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