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First Aired - 09/30/2010 04:30PM
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This week on Flash Talks Cash Andrew and Flash speak about doing good with donations: creating a non-profit. Sam Mauldin stops by to describe how he's using the WWII-themed cartoons of his father Bill Mauldin, the famous "for the troops" cartoonist, to create shirts to sell online. The proceeds from his "Bill Maudlin For the Troops" company then go to The Soldiers Project, a non-profit dedicated to providing much-needed therapy for soldiers returning home from active duty. Sam has created a business model that supports a good cause without the headache (and $) of 501c3 intensity. This episode was sponsored by The Barterhouse.
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Flash Talks Cash - It's Not Always About Money (16:42)
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JoAnn 'Flash' Fleming, Flash Talks Cash, Andrew Newman, Heritage Radio Network, The Barterhouse, not for profits, Sam Mauldin, Bill Mauldin for Grunts, www.billmauldin.com, army illustrations, cartoonist, war veterns, World War II, political cartoons, T shirts for sale, The Soldiers Project, free therapy, troops have trouble getting good therapy, Sgt. Jacob Blaylock, 501 3-C forms are expensive,Email Questions & More with Sam Mauldin (13:58)
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email question, pay quarterly as a freelancer!, even if you missed a few quarters, it's worth trying to catch up, money transfer between accounts, gifts / loans, money from parents, a joint account is a great idea, call it a gift, not a loan, grunts, army soldiers, women in the armed forces, Admiral Mike Mullen announced that there is an emergency involving soldier suicides, how can people help with the T shirt program?, material donations, t shirts are on sale at www.billmauldin.com, donations, grants, Bill Mauldin passed away in 2003, he was actively cartooning until 1992, Rupert Murdoch bought out the newspaper that Bill wrote for,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 10/06/2010 07:00PM
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This week on Burning Down the House Curtis speaks to Rich Thrush, industrial and product designer. They speak about the mad (and maddening) world of consumption, chairs that are more "statements" than they are comfortable, how simple product design can improve every day life, graphic design, the MoMA gift shop, and the mind-bending powers of the "Powers of Ten" short film. Finally, Curtis closes with a tribute to his little sister. This episode was sponsored by Tekserve.
Photo 1: Dietrich Lubs Braun alarm clock, 2: Niels Diffrient's The Freedom Chair, 3: Heller Stacking Melamine Dinnerware by Vignelli
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B.D.H. Intro- The Mad World of Consumption (7:54)
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Curtis B. Wayne, Heritage Radio Network, Tekserve, anything related to the Apple computer, devoted to sustainable life, www.tekserve.com, talking about the design of consumer products, industrial designers, Great Depression 2.0, Kaz Incorporated, Vics products, the mad world of consuming, huge wave of consumer goods coming out of the far east for the past 15 years, flood of goods after WWII, waves of breakthroughs, Target, an attempt to provide goods with good design, durable and beautiful, Dyson vacuums, Walmart people, access to disposable income, stretching up to Target, Rich Thrush,Knock It Off (10:42)
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Janice Joplin died forty years ago this week, Mercedes Benz, aspirational consumer attitude, industrial designers, product design, improving everyday life, the alternative is no design, no illusion of changing the world, one piece at a time, at a corporate level, a sense of democratization, Tata Motors, Jaguar, a super elite product, one does encounter a really good knockoff, a total ripoff of Dietrich Lubs Braun alarm clock, there are knockoff at all levels, Plagiaris knockoff museum, mock the design but lack the function, Gillette, high precision building, Proctor and Gamble, the world's largest company of that kind, parent company democratization,Levels of Resolution (22:30)
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Almost National Anthem, the cyclic spirit that this land is our land, a liberalizing democratic urge to have good design for everyone, good architecture for a low cost, so much of this look at me stuff, Massimo Vignelli, great graphic designer, Helvetica typeface, Heller diner wear, unbreakable, bringing good design to the masses, no zeal to promote anonymous products, products have become more complex, amazing mugs are still available, the MoMA giftshop, Aalto vase, The Memphis Group, a scalability of design thinking, 10/10/10, International Powers Of Ten Day, Eames' Powers of Ten, film, ourselves in the universe, as old as Methuselah, Charles Eames, Curtis meets Charles Eames, I'll answer all your questions in the speech, Eames' IBM movies, structural engineering, Norwalk Community College, structural calculations, high exponential values, Avogadro's number, the numerology of things, levels of resolution, a well-made consumer object, the high precision available in production these days, Toby Cumberbatch, Cooper Union, making structures out of garbage, a site to build this year's Garbage House, discarded water bottles, very beautifully crafted, temporary housing out of trash, no shortage of trash, the era of Vignelli, a little bit of delight in your everyday life, something you need can be beautiful, thinking more about usability, usability can be beautiful, beauty for beauty's sake, Motorola, Hasbro, look is secondary to function, function first, the commonality between architecture and product design, the subtle brilliance of Curtis's N.A.D. stereo amplifier, square green ON button, the power and the volume, the hierarchy of function, results-based design, watching the consumer use the product, designing medical apparatuses, hit the KILL button, designing for parents of sick children, a thermometer that calls the doctor,St. James Infirmary (8:18)
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what it's like to struggle with a product, Tekserve, Rich Thrush, Industrial Designer, positively 4th street, enfranchising your own organization first, transparency of communication, brand-name designers, handing it down from high on the mountain, Philippe Starck, The Ghost Chair, looks wonderful at the Hudson Hotel, Niels Diffrient freedom chair, perfectly ergonomic, architect's discount, what's the trade price?, trading products for products, Constance Anne Cash, 9 year battle against cancer, happy to have another day, how do we make life better, a good mother and a good friend, Hamlet's soliloquy, To die, to sleep, no more,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 09/22/2010 06:00PM
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This week on Brooklyn Eats Rachel celebrates Craft Beer Week with Chris O'Leary of BrewYorkNewYork.com. Rachel and Chris break down Brooklyn's beer history in three acts: pre-Prohibition, Prohibition, and the modern era. Learn about the peak of Brooklyn as a beer production borough (48 breweries just in Brooklyn!) through their struggle to stay afloat during Prohibition (alcohol free beer and illegal shenanigans) all the way to the first modern-era brewery in 1996. Don't miss this info-packed and surprising crash course in our fair city's brewery heritage. This episode was sponsored by Fairway: like no other market.
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Fairway Market, serious about food, Heritage Radio Network, finding happiness through food, Steve Jenkins,Pre-Prohibition (12:14)
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Rachael Wharton, Edible Brooklyn, Edible Manhattan, Chris O'Leary, BrewYorkNewYork.com, pre-prohibition, 1840s, ales, British style beers, room temperature, served warm, tea-toters, heavy beer, German immigrants, a taste of home, crisp, lagers, bottom-fermenting, require colder temperatures, fizzy yellow beer versus flat brownish beer, Brooklyn was producing more beer than the rest of the country, there were once 48 breweries in Brooklyn, over 3000 breweries in the country at the turn of the 20th century, high demand for beer from German Brooklynites, Brewer's Row, 12 block area with 11 breweries, owner's mansions, William Omer brewery, Schaeffer Brewery, Schaeffer moves to Brooklyn, The Volstead Act, Prohibition, one of the few that survived prohibition, the beer industry peaked in the 1890s, the advent of refrigeration, improved bottling technology, larger breweries buying up smaller breweries at the turn of the century, kegged and casked, Brooklyn producing 10-15% of the nation's beer, The Temperance Movement, Roosevelt defends the beer industry, massive hop harvests in upstate New York, close to 80% of the country's hops came from New York, mingling singles at the hops harvest, the mildew epidemic,Post-Prohibition (10:03)
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Prohibition, Falstaff, Miller, Pabst, post-prohibition, WWII, Beer, the 9 breweries that made it through, Shaeffer, Reingold, Piel, The Volstead Act, less than 0.5% alcohol, non-alcoholic beer, the fall of the Brooklyn brewery, home-brewing was illegal until 1978, Jimmy Carter, Billy Carter's Beer, canning started in the New York area, victims of consolidation, the number of breweries peaked in the 1950s, baby booms and beer, from 1000 American breweries to 83 by 1983, the Rolling Rock move, the Schaeffer family, ornate homes in Bushwick, dreaming of brewery parties, celebrating the hop harvest, Governor Al Smith had the first legal beer after prohibition, Budweiser brouhaha,Modern Times (8:31)
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Beer history in New York city, Schaeffer leaves Brooklyn in 1976, no breweries in Brooklyn until 1996, the birth of Brooklyn Brewery, the brewery aspect of Brooklyn is gone, everyone thinks of beer when they think of Milwaukee, the Milwaukee of the east coast, the craft beer movement in Brooklyn, Portland Oregon has 32 craft breweries, the most breweries per capita in the world, Brooklyn has three and a half breweries, nano-brewery, home brew, Brooklyn Brewery is the 17th largest craft brewery in the country, Six Point has only been around 6 years, running out of space in Brooklyn, brewing off location, lager demands, brew pub in Manhattan, the roof of Eataly, wanting more flavorful beers, quality versus quantity, 16000 breweries in the US, the rich brewing history of Brooklyn, the demand for local beer, the Locavore Movement, Craft Beer Week starts tomorrow, The Brooklyn Brewery Bike Tour, Levy's Unique New York, brewyorknewyork.com, Brewer's Row, biker's beer helmet,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
