Street Shots: Bruce Gilden
Co-produced for WNYC's Street Shots
Hunting for characters on the streets of New York City with Magnum Photographer Bruce Gilden. This short web video has over a half million YouTube views to date and is used in classrooms around the world.
Street Shots: Joe Wigfall
Co-produced for WNYC's Street Shots
Joe Wigfall can see with his hands. Never lifting his camera to his eye, he shoots hundreds of photos during his lunch hour or walking to the train after work. A true artist, Joe brings a bit of himself into each of his photographs. He's the winner of WNYC's Street Shots Challenge.
Gowanus Sponge Parks Explained
Produced for WNYC's Cityscapes
This is a video diary from Stephen Cassell, a principal at Architecture Research Office (ARO). He's with his friend, Susannah Drake, principal at dlandstudio. There's a whole lot more from Stephen and other architects on the Cityscapes website.
The Art of the Urban Pig Roast
Produced for WNYC's Food in the City
At the artist space 3rd Ward, butcher Tom Mylan spent a long, hot day preparing an urban pig roast for almost 400 guests at the 2nd Annual Pig Roast & Dance Party. The roasting process involved defrosting the 200-pound Jersey hog overnight, spreading it across the cage, wiring it down, scoring the flesh with a box cutter, and basting it with Salsa Roja from a jug. This method is ideal for Brooklyn, where the soil is too toxic to bury dinner in a proper pit, and concrete blocks are in abundance at your corner condos-to-be.
[WNYC BLOG POST]
Urban Farmers Bring Bitter Melon (and Other Produce)
to East New York
Produced for WNYC's Food in the City
On Saturday mornings, at the intersection of New Lots & Schenck Aves, farm stands sprout up in narrow rows, selling fresh strawberries, carrots, okra and other locally grown produce. While some of that produce comes from upstate farms, much of it is grown by two dozen New York City teenagers. They're interns at East New York Farms, where, since March, they've been hoeing, seeding, and composting on what was once a trash-strewn lot in East New York, Brooklyn.
[WNYC BLOG POST]
Julie Powell Cooks What She Has Around
Produced for WNYC's Food in the City
Julie Powell - blogger, author, based-on-a-true-story star of the summer blockbuster "Julie & Julia" - just got back from a press junket and is exhausted & hungry. See what she whips together with the ingredients she finds around her apartment.
[WNYC BLOG POST]
Artist Ernesto Neto Wants To Get Inside Your Nose
Produced for WNYC Culture
A sneak peak at artist Ernesto Neto's installation "anthropodino" at the Park Avenue Armory. He explains here how the air inside of the Armory inspired him to to use 1,650 lbs of spices for this installation, letting him touch the inside of the viewer's nose.
[WNYC BLOG POST]
Dan Graham's Greatest Hits at the Whitney
Produced for WNYC Culture
Up at the Whitney is the show "Dan Graham: Beyond," a retrospective of the New York artist that spans his 40 year career, including his conceptual projects for magazine pages from the 60's, glass and steal installations from the 80's, video installations, and his work with musicians including Sonic Youth and Japanther.
[WNYC BLOG POST]
Michael Jackson Remembered Outside the Apollo
Produced for WNYC Culture
The line of decked-out fans extended east on 125th Street and around the block, as TV trucks and photographers scrambled to record the outpouring of affection and grief. This was New York's chance to pay tribute to Michael Jackson at the Apollo Theater, Harlem's enduring symbol of the black music tradition. This video was produced in a day.
[WNYC BLOG POST]
The Tornado School of Martial Arts
Co-produced for NHPR's Word of Mouth
The civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. said, "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." A martial arts program in Chicago's South Side teaches similar principles. Learn self-defense to avoid violence, and help the community for a greater sense of self. This year, the program will offer scholarships to 10,000 low-income children across Chicago.
[ON NHPR]
Coney Island Sunshine
Produced for Studio 360
The New York subway system has one of the best environmental designs of recent years: Coney Island's Stillwell Avenue terminal, one block from the Atlantic Ocean, is topped by a state-of-the-art photovoltaic glass roof. Kurt checked it out with architect Greg Kiss.
[CREATIVE MINDS GO GREEN]
Out My Window
Produced for WNYC Culture
For Gail Albert Halaban's project "Out My Window," she went into apartments of friends and strangers across the city and took photographs out their windows. In the lives of neighbors, Halaban found stories about the private, daily duties NYers share - hugging our dogs, preparing a dinner party, looking in the fridge. She told me that this project could only have happened in NYC.
[WNYC BLOG POST]