This is a clip from a 1967 CBS doc about the Haight-Ashbury hippie scene featuring a “hard rock band” called the Grateful Dead. “There is the real danger that more and more young people may follow the call to turn on, tune in, and drop out.”
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Jack Gravat needs a personal trainer.
[audio:http://earshotpresents.com/sounds/within-earshot/personal-trainer.mp3|titles=Jack Gravat (Kevin Nealon) needs a personal trainer] This audio was extracted from the Comedy Central TV program Crank Yankers. Here, Jack Gravat (Kevin Nealon) calls the Power Shop to find himself a personal trainer.
Tommy Maron, fencer
[audio:http://earshotpresents.com/sounds/within-earshot/tommy-maron-fencer.mp3|titles=Tommy Maron, fencer] Within Earshot talks to Tommy Maron, a 10 year old fencer from Westport, New York. Tommy recently won his first tournament competition, and as he tells us, he’s just getting started. Below is a short video of the competition referred to in our conversation.
Recreate the ’70s road trip you never took with Poladroid.
Polaroid film may be going the way of the dinosaur, but for Mac users, its iconic look is here to stay, thanks to a fun new software download called “Poladroid.” Simply drag an existing photo onto the application, sit back and watch the results appear – slowly – right before your eyes. The process is…
Milton Glaser on Shepard Fairey’s use of Obama photo
From the NY Times, Monday February 9th, 2009: In a pre-emptive strike, the street artist Shepard Fairey filed a lawsuit on Monday against The Associated Press, asking a federal judge to declare that he is protected from copyright infringement claims in his use of a news photograph as the basis for a now ubiquitous campaign…