December 07, 2007
In 1995 when a massive stroke left French magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby totally paralyzed, the only way he could communicate was by blinking his left eye. And it was how he dictated his memoir. Painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel has turned Bauby’s book into a movie, and he tells Kurt what drew him to this story of creativity against all odds.
Psychogeography is the newest work from English writer Will Self. It’s basically about walking, but not about pleasant strolls through the woods. His walks take him to overlooked and hazardous places –- airports are a favorite destination. He has walked from O’Hare all the way into downtown Chicago, some 18 miles. Studio 360’s Pejk Malinovski met him at LaGuardia Airport for a walk toward Manhattan.
When Amy Douglas was a teenager, her parents sent her to a boarding school for troubled kids deep in the Arizona desert. Amy fell deep into a depression. Then a cassette copy of The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads helped turn her life around. Produced by Adda Birnir.
James Gimzewski thinks really small. The thickness of a hair, 60 or 90 millionths of a meter, is enormous in his world. Gimzewski is a UCLA nanoscientist who spent years taking pictures of atoms. He teamed up with media artist Victoria Vesna to explore the secret lives of butterflies. Produced by Claes Andreasson.
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