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Jon Oringer, Founder, Shutterstock
From: From Scratch
Series: From Scratch
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Shutterstock is an online marketplace for photos, graphic images, video clips and music. The content is crowdsourced, with photographers, artists a...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2016
  • Length: 19:00
Amanda Sanfilippo on Public Art
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
Caption: Amanda Sanfilippo, Credit: Fringe Projects Miami
Amanda Sanfilippo talks about public art and Miami’s Fringe Projects

  • Added: Aug 12, 2016
  • Length: 09:22
Chris McKay, Larry Niven and Andy Weir at the Contact Conference
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Fact and fiction Contact Conference all-stars. Left to right: Carol Stoker, Michael Sims, Kim Stanley Robinson, Andy Weir, Penny Boston, Chris McKay and Larry Niven., Credit: Mat Kaplan
Space art and science fiction joined science fact at the 2016 Contact Conference in Sunnyvale, California. We talk with three well-known visionarie...

Bought by KFCF FM, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KWMR, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jun 07, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
36: Annie Leibovitz and "Women"; "Screenagers" Director, Delaney Ruston
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Annie Leibovitz
Lauren sits down with world renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz about her exhibition on tour, "Women:New Portraits"commissioned by UBS and making...

Bought by KKRN, KUT, KCMJ Community Radio, KSJD, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Mar 24, 2016
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
Cowles Center offers distance dance instruction
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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The internet has transformed classroom education around the world. Here in Minneapolis, the Cowles Center for Dance is doing something unique--offe...

Bought by WABE and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 04:38
  • Purchases: 2
Making a book from beginning to end, with one of San Francisco’s last remaining bookbinders
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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Stepping inside the Taurus Bookbindery is kind of like stepping back in time.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 28, 2014
  • Length: 11:20
  • Purchases: 1
3D printed prosthetics are fashion statements for amputees
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: A selection of different types of Bespoke fairing designs., Credit: Angela Johnston
When Deborah Bevilacqua lost her leg in a motorcycle accident ten years ago, she had to get a prosthetic leg. It’s been functional she says, but it...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2014
  • Length: 11:41
A Conversation with Janet Kagan--Director of Art Force
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
Caption: Art Force: Cross Currents Civic Exhibition, Credit: Courtesy of Art Force
Art-Force: Artists revitalizing rural manufacturing.

Bought by KPIP-LP and KRZA


  • Added: Jun 12, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
A shortwave family affair
From: Veronica Simmonds
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For Michael McCormack radio was always magic

  • Added: Jun 11, 2014
  • Length: 06:44
The Mikie Show #70, Tan Lin
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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Join us for a fascinating conversation with poet, Tan Lin. He expands poetry’s palette to include data, video, films, hashtags; our newest observab...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2014
  • Length: 28:02
Chasing the Dream: Arts School
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Show biz is center stage next in our higher ed series: Two venerable private art schools in Boston’s Back Bay — Emerson College and the Berklee Col...

  • Added: May 17, 2014
  • Length: 58:35
Shake it - a modern Polaroid love story
From: This Instant Productions
Caption: Shake it!, Credit: Oz Lang
A tender look at two modern photo technologies - Polaroid and digital photography - and the human and visual connections we make with them.

Bought by WYSO, WCBE, Oregon Public Broadcasting, KGOU, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 20
Episode 5 ~ 3D Modeling and Animation
From: Matthew Mustovich
Series: The Art of Video Game Design
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Graphics in video games are undoubtedly one of the most talked topics in gaming. By speaking with Dr. Dennis Woytek, I hope to give the audience a ...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2014
  • Length: 07:56
Episode 3 ~ Sound Design
From: Matthew Mustovich
Series: The Art of Video Game Design
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With the help of Don Maue, a sound designer and Duquesne University professor, we examine the role of sound in video games.

  • Added: Mar 17, 2014
  • Length: 09:19
Episode 2 ~ Concept Art
From: Matthew Mustovich
Series: The Art of Video Game Design
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The process of concept art creation is examined with the help of artist Ryan Taylor.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2014
  • Length: 07:56
99% Invisible #74- Hand Painted Signs
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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The last practitioners of disappearing art form that's poised to make a comeback

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 20
99% Invisible #89- Bubble Houses
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Director's Cut)
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Buildings of the future, once.

Bought by WABE, XRAY.fm, WJCT, WNIJ, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 23:48
  • Purchases: 6
THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS -- Co-director Peter Lord interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Peter Lord and friends, San Francisco, CA 4/10/12, Credit: Andrea Chase
Peter Lord talks animated dreams, ukulele outbreaks, and creative anachronisms.

  • Added: Apr 29, 2012
  • Length: 12:57
99% Invisible #41- The Human-Human Interface (Standard 4:30 Version Only)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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We're used to interacting with objects. But we're not used to objects that teach us how to interact with each other.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, WOUB, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, KVNF and more


  • Added: Feb 15, 2012
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 16
99% Invisible #28- Movie Title Sequences (Standard 4:30 Version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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There's more to the Art of the Title than meets the eye.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, WOUB, Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 13
Action Speaks! What's Eating Us? 1998 - The Sonny Bono Act (Copywright Extension)
From: Action Speaks Radio
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Action Speaks! Underappreciated Dates that Changed America and its panelists -- including famed author Shepard Fairey and scholar and attorney Lawr...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, WFSU, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more


  • Added: Oct 15, 2010
  • Length: 58:50
  • Purchases: 7
Low Power Max
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Somewhere near Portland, Maine a man -- known here as Max -- is likely be found breaking the law almost 24 hours a day... from his attic.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 06:45
  • Purchases: 1
Memories of Moog
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: Robert Moog
On what would have been his 75th Birthday, we remember Robert Moog, creator of the Moog synthesizer with Roger O’Donnell, former keyboardist with T...

Bought by WMNF


  • Added: May 19, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
CSI Meets MFA: The Science of Detecting Forged Art
From: Rebecca Sheir
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Crime Scene Investigation in the world of fine art.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Remix Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 16, 2008
  • Length: 04:21
  • Purchases: 3
A Virtual Dinner Party
From: Zak Rosen
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An exploration into why one of America's most respected art institutions decided to challenge visitors to re-think thei way they perceive art.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 03, 2008
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 1