All Pieces for Eric Molinsky

 
Ghost in the Shell
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
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Ghost in the Shell was groundbreaking, visually and thematically. The 1995 Japanese animated film (or anime) was unapologetically for adults. The s...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WABE


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 20:35
  • Purchases: 2
The Hobbit and The Hippies
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
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J.R.R. Tolkien was baffled why the counter-culture in the 1960s had embraced his world of Middle-earth.

Bought by KZYX, PRX Remix, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 18:29
  • Purchases: 3
Fantasy Maps
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
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What Google Maps and Middle-earth have in common.

Bought by PRX Remix and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 16:07
  • Purchases: 2
Magical Thinking
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
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Fantasy novelists work hard to make us believe in magic, but scientists say we already do.

Bought by Marfa Public Radio and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 21:51
  • Purchases: 2
The Sorting Hat
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
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The Sorting Hat has transcended the Harry Potter books and become a phenomenon that makes us question who we really are.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 18:46
  • Purchases: 2
Caps Lock Harry
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
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Reading Harry Potter helps trauma survivors understand their experiences, and feel less alone.

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, PRX Remix, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 17:45
  • Purchases: 3
The Man In the High Castle
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
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The creators of the Amazon series talk about building a world we don't want to imagine -- but we need to.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 25:58
  • Purchases: 1
Workin' on the Death Star
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
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The 1994 film Clerks posed a moral dilemma that Star Wars fans -- and George Lucas -- have wrestled with for decades.

Bought by KVSC and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 22:21
  • Purchases: 2
Atari vs The Imagination Gap
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
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The book "The Art of Atari" is full of eye candy, but it's also about how Atari became a superstar company -- until it was Game Over.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 18:08
  • Purchases: 2
Growing Up Avatar-American
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
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How the Nickelodeon cartoon Avatar: The Last Airbender captured the Asian-American experience -- even if there's no America in that fantasy world.

Bought by KZYX, KVSC, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 27:01
  • Purchases: 3
New York 2140
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
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Kim Stanley Robinson's new novel imagines how New Yorkers would adapt to sea level rise by turning the city into a Super Venice.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 20:39
  • Purchases: 2
Healing Through Horror
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
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A writer and filmmaker explain why they love horror films not just for the thrills, but because the genre helped them mourn for lost loved ones.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 23:10
  • Purchases: 1
Designing Bojack's World
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
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Lisa Hanawalt explains how her love of drawing horse people lead to being creative director of the Netflix series Bojack Horseman.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 20:31
  • Purchases: 1
The Real Twin Peaks
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
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Twin Peaks may feel like an unreal place, but some people wonder if their hometowns share too much in common with David Lynch's show.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 22:19
  • Purchases: 1
Imagining the Internet
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
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Did sci-fi authors imagine social media and the Internet before it existed?

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 21:23
  • Purchases: 2
World War EVE
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
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Players from around the world explain why they live a double life in a virtual galaxy called EVE Online.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 25:33
  • Purchases: 1
Rappers with Arm Cannons
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
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In the second half of my mini-series on musical worlds, I talk with Sammus and Mega Ran, hip hop artists that create concept albums about their fav...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 21:20
  • Purchases: 2
Worldbuilding with Music
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
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In the first of a series on musical worlds, I talk with members of Vertigo Drift about their sci-fi concept album Phase 3.

Bought by PRX Remix and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 14:29
  • Purchases: 2
Technobabble
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
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Helen Zaltzman of The Allusionist podcast helps me figure out why some technobabble is good, bad or just plain baffling.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 24:15
  • Purchases: 1
Scott Snyder
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
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This week I open the vault to play an extended cut of my 2014 interview with the Batman comic book writer Scott Snyder.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 25:37
  • Purchases: 1

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