Name: Listen to the Snap Special - Twilight by Snap Judgment in Interesting
Duration: 34 min 52 s
Description: Bonus Snap Special, “Twilight.” It's an elusive moment in the magic hour featuring compelling performances by Shane Koyczan, Ise Lyfe, Sean Hayes and the legendary Moreese Bickham.

Interesting

SIngin' all that Jazz vol.3 - Selected by Natacha

Director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies Narayan Khandekar explains that the rich kermes red pigment was created by grinding up the dried bodies of insects that lived on the kermes oak tree.

Kermes is for crimson

Director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies Narayan Khandekar discusses the use of cadmium yellow by the Impressionists.

Cadmium yellow

Director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies Narayan Khandekar explains how artists often took risks to create their works, using poisonous pigments like emerald green to get the color just right.

Green poison

Director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies Narayan Khandekar explains how the creation of a synthetic substance, which was chemically identical to the pigment produced from the semiprecious stone lapis lazuli, opened up a new world of blue hues to artists.

Synthetic blue

Director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies Narayan Khandekar explains the aquatic origins of Tyrian purple.

A priceless purple

Bonus Snap Special, “Twilight.” It's an elusive moment in the magic hour featuring compelling performances by Shane Koyczan, Ise Lyfe, Sean Hayes and the legendary Moreese Bickham.

Listen to the Snap Special - Twilight

Snap Judgment is a weekly storytelling radio show and podcast, hosted by Glynn Washington. Snap mixes real stories with killer beats to produce cinematic, dramatic, kick-ass radio. Snap’s raw, musical brand of storytelling dares listeners to see the world through the eyes of another. This is storytelling… with a BEAT!!  Snap first aired on NPR stations nationwide in July 2010. Snap Judgment is now aired on over 400 public radio stations.

Listen to the Snap Special - Twilight

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