Delivering an engaging experience to a virtual audience is just as important as it is for the audience that is in person at your event. Listen in as your friends at 5 Tool Productions discuss their experience working the Rhode Island School of Design's 2022 inauguration ceremony! Tyler brings you through the timeline of the event, some of the cool in person features that were set up, and some of the intricate tech we used on site to make the virtual audience as engaged as we could.

Delivering the in person experience for a virtual audience - 5 Tool at RISD

Dan's back this week and so that means an avalanche of new labor news stories. We begin by discussing the new massive strike at Rutgers, with over 9000 faculty, post docs, and grad student workers fighting for fair wages and job security. Next we discuss Florida's latest attempt to destroy public unions. In Syracuse yet another massive union landslide this past week as grad workers voted overwhelmingly to unionize. Service workers in the South staged a one day strike in protest of the region's refusal to enforce safety protections in industries with a majority Black workforce. School staff at the Rhode Island School of Design struck this week, fighting for $20/hr at a school that charges $77k/year.  Unfortunately we have another story of union busting from Planned Parenthood in the Midwest, this time involving illegal surveillance of the union's bargaining team. Finally, we congratulate workers in New Jersey (also at Rutgers!) on filing for the first union at Barnes and Noble in the country.

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Ep 152 - Pay Your Workers!

We start this week's episode following up with the RISD workers who have signed a new contract after winning their key demands. Next we check in with the striking graduate workers at the University of Michigan where both the courts and the cops have ramped up repression.  Trader Joe's United split two elections this week, one win out west and a heartbreaking loss in NYC. The Writer's Guild of America had record turnout and unity in authorizing a strike that could shut down TV production in Hollywood. Over 150,000 government workers in Canada struck last week to protest low wages and raise offers below inflation. The Barnes and Noble expanded to a second store this week. Starbucks unveiled their economic proposals for nationwide bargaining. Ben and Jerry's workers have joined the Workers United movement. And just the day of recording, workers at Sega have announced their fight to make Sonic a union hedgehog.

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Ep 154 - Gotta Go Fast!

Chris spent four days visiting 11 colleges in Boston and surrounding areas. He walks Joel through the visit for Part 2 of the Collegetown, USA tour.  In Part 2, Chris gets drenched, hangs out with a legend and takes a river cruise.  Enjoy!

Wellesley: 2:30
Babson: 12:10
Olin: 18:05
Boston College: 25:25
Providence: 33:00
Brown: 41:45
RISD: 48:45

Music on this episode comes from Normcore always (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Normcore/Neighbors/Heartless_Man).

Clam Chowder and College Visits in Collegetown, USA: Boston Part 2

Premiered at the RISD Museum on August 4, 2024 by Ordinary Affects (J. P. A. Falzone: piano, Morgan Evans-Weiler: violin, Jordan Dykstra: composition, viola, playback, and Laura Cetilia: cello).

The Leaky Eye (live) — performed by Ordinary Affects

Originally from Sioux City, IA, composer and performer Jordan Dykstra lives and works in Brooklyn, NY with his beloved cat Basil.

Feature Film Score Contributions:
Inside the Uvalde Response (2023) — composer
Shaken (2023) — co-composer
Fair Play (2023) — performer and score conductor
20 Days in Mariupol (2023) — composer
Echo (2022) — composer
Globes (2021) — composer
Blow the Man Down (2020) — co-composer
Hail Satan? (2019) — featured composer
Documenting Hate (2019) — "consultant" (music editor)
It Comes At Night (2017) — asst. composer
No Going Back Before Present (2016) — composer
Restless (2011) — co-composer

Chris Reeves and Joel Ford are high school counselors who spend a lot of time on college admission.  They have both served as presidents of the Kentucky Association for College Admission Counseling.  Chris also served a 3 year term as a Board Director for the National Association for College Admission Counseling, while Joel served on the NACAC CEO Search Committee that ultimately led to the hiring of Angel Perez. We have been podcasting about college admissions for the past several years, and The Reeves and Ford Podcast is our new version!  With new music, new format, less scripting, we hope you enjoy feeling like we are hanging out talking college admissions.

New tracks tagged #risd