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Selected Audio - Week September 3rd

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A play list to go with Nasa's Earth View on Ustream. https://creativefeathers.wordpress.com/pale-blue-dot/

Pale Blue Dot

Ray Bradbury

Spoken Word

Excerpt from https://soundcloud.com/designmatters/interactionofcolor

Background, context, and discussion <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/08/16/interaction-of-color-josef-albers-50th-anniversary/">here</a>.

Josef Albers and the art of seeing

More here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/11/13/neil-degrasse-tyson-and-ann-druyan-on-carl-sagan/

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Ann Druyan on Carl Sagan

Neil deGrasse Tyson on Carl Sagan

Jeremy Bernstein conducts the most thorough interview Stanley Kubrick has ever given. Background and context here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/11/27/jeremy-bernstein-stanley-kubrick-interview/

A rare interview with Stanley Kubrick (1965)

A recording created as part of the Golden Record carried into space by the Voyager spacecraft in 1977. Story here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/02/10/murmurs-of-earth-sagan-golden-record/

FULL STORY

The Golden Record: Greeting to space from the Secretary General of the UN

For anyone who can't see a ball without wanting to kick it, head it, shoot it, or boot it. A wonderful rhyming story read aloud by the incomparable Allan Ahlberg who takes us on a journey from childhood to fatherhood full of humour, warmth, friendship . . . and football.

First written as a poem, the little boy in the story has been brought to life perfectly by artist Sebastien Braun. Every parent will be able to immediately relate to the simple joy felt by a boy simply kicking a ball, and how there is nothing else quite like it.

Write a chant using the words 'Kicking a Ball' for your chance to win prizes for your school http://www.puffin.co.uk/static/puffinplayground/winwinwin/kickingaball.html 


Kicking A Ball - Read by Allan Alhberg

Bill Nye reads from his book, Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation. Transcript and richer context here: http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/11/06/bill-nye-undeniable-evolution-creation/

Photograph by Brandon Hill: http://brandonhillphotos.com/billnye

TRANSCRIPT / MORE

Bill Nye on creationism and evolution

Civic Orchestra of Chicago in concert with Cliff Colnot - Orchestra Hall, May 29, 2011

The Rite of Spring  Part 1

Loved what he had to say... Though i might as well make the mp3 downloadable :)

The Most Astounding Fact (Neil DeGrasse Tyson)

<a href="http://dreaminginthevoid.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>DREAMING IN THE VOID BLOG</b></a> | <a href="http://soundcloud.com/dreaminginthevoid" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>Other sounds</b></a>

Source:
http://youtu.be/wupToqz1e2g

Carl Sagan - The Pale Blue Dot

To read Neil's blog - "Ray Bradbury" - from 2012.06.06, visit http://bit.ly/ngjRAY1
To read his blog - "Ray Bradbury: In Memoriam and In Green Town Illinois" - posted in the evening of 2012.06.06, visit http://bit.ly/ngjRAY2

This recording was released via the Kickstarter/fan-funded live album "An Evening With Neil Gaiman & Amanda Palmer" - additional info available at http://kck.st/pF2lMG
Recorded on 2011.11.08 in Portland, OR at the Aladdin Theater.

Written and Read by Neil Gaiman | @NeilHimself

Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered by Jaron Luksa | @JaronSound
Original artwork by Cynthia von Buhler | @CynthVonBuhler
Microphones furnished by Ear Trumpet Labs 

http://www.neilgaiman.com 
http://www.jaronsound.com 
http://www.cynthiavonbuhler.com 
http://www.eartrumpetlabs.com

The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury

Poem text and background: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/08/02/frank-o-hara-song-is-it-dirty/

Audio source: http://www.frankohara.org/audio.html

POEM TEXT

Song (Is it dirty) by Frank O'Hara

Background: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/08/07/the-histories-of-the-universe-patti-smith/

Patti Smith "The Histories of the Universe" (1975)

Background: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/08/08/carl-sagan-message-to-mars/

Carl Sagan's message for Mars

Marcel Duchamp reads his 1957 essay, "The Creative Act." Full text + background here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/08/23/the-creative-act-marcel-duchamp-1957/

Marcel Duchamp: The Creative Act (1957)

Excerpt from Jeff Goldsmith's Q&A with Ray Bradbury, recorded at Comic Con 2010. Discussion and other highlights here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/09/04/ray-bradbury-comic-con-interview/

Full audio here: http://www.theqandapodcast.com/2012/06/ray-bradbury-q.html

Ray Bradbury on Predictions and the Secret of Life

Ray Bradbury on Space Exploration

Ray Bradbury on Libraries

Ray Bradbury on NASA

Ray Bradbury on Monorail

Ray Bradbury on (Not) Growing Up

Ray Bradbury on Loving Life

For full poem text, plus Eliot on idea-incubation and the mystical quality of creativity, go here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/09/26/t-s-eliot-on-creativity/

MORE / POEM TEXT

T.S. Eliot Reads "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

"The arrows of adverse criticism cannot scratch, let alone pierce, the shield of what disappointed archers call my 'self-assurance.'"

Background and context:  http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/01/18/vladimir-nabokov-james-mossman-interview/

Vladimir Nabokov on literature and life (1969)

Read more: www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/01/10/massimo-vignelli-debbie-millman/

Excerpt from Debbie Millman's Design Matters interview: https://soundcloud.com/designmatters/massimo-vignelli

Ray Bradbury on NASA

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