Tonight, the City of Berkeley will designate January 22, 2013 as “Les Blank Day.” The proclamation they wrote in his honor is beautiful and we asked permission to print it on The Making Of… blog: IN HONOR OF LES BLANK WHEREAS, Les Blank was born in Tampa, Florida and attended Tulane University where he played … more…
As part of The Making Of project we’ve partnered with Zeega, a group of folks who are creating a new online storytelling platform. This brand new tool makes it easy create digital stories combining your own content with media curated from across the web. Video, photographs,words, music can all be easily combined to make a … more…
South of Market in San Francisco, industrial designer Scott Summitt, is blurring the line between medical devices and sculpture. He calls what he’s making the Fairing. Listen: The word fairing typically describes the covering on a motorcycle – the curved shiny part that makes it a sleek, aerodynamic machine. Scott Summit, Director of technology at … more…
The Kitchen Sisters invite you to The Making Of… Zeega - A Night of Stories, Invention & Surprise. Thursday January 17, 7-8:30 pm at SoundCloud, 500 Treat Ave., San Francisco. We’re launching Zeega’s new storytelling platform on our Making Of site and hope you’ll come celebrate, find out more about the project and make a Zeega. … more…
Persis Karim from Berkeley called The Making Of storyline and told us about how her mother inspired her to make jam. We loved her story so much we visited her home and recorded her story underneath her plum tree. more…
“Cardboard boxes, coffee cans, cookie tins, plastic water bottles…anything I find on the street, I turn into an instrument.” -Marilyn McNeal, musician, educator, and instrument maker more…
Notch: It’s All About Stance and Style. My name is Ignacio Gonzales. People call me Notch. I build hot rods and I’ve got a thing for tiki bars. I build tiki bars on the side. I’m always moving around. I’m always twitching. Born and raised in San Jose. I went to high school and that’s … more…
Last night, Youth Radio celebrated the graduates from their Core, Bridge and MATCH programs. It was a beautiful evening full of storytelling, good food, and great music. The event featured several performances from Remix Your Life, a youth-driven project that uses critical analysis, song-writing, poetry, and recording to help young people “remix” the stories of their … more…
Last week saw the release of The Bird that Swallowed its Cage: The Selected Writing of Curzio Malaparte, translated by our friend and sonic hero, Walter Murch. Here’s a description of the book from the Counterpoint Press website: Walter Murch first came across Curzio Malaparte’s writings in a chance encounter in a French book about … more…
outLoud Radio is celebrating its tenth anniversary on Wednesday, November 14 with a celebration and benefit in San Francisco. outLoud Radio is proud to celebrate its tenth anniversary of empowering creative and talented lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ) and allied youth to share their personal stories through radio. By teaching youth about production, documentation, … more…
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