5/1/13 Documenting reality, Wasaluna, concerned photography, and canoodling with carbon offset schemes

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03/30/14 • 59 min

Join us as we spend an hour with international photojournalist Orin Langelle and writer/activist Ann Peterman who travel the world documenting environmental injustice and advocating for indigenous peoples. Among the varied topics discussed are Vermont McMansions, Nicaraguan landslides, surviving on Coca-Cola and beer, how the media saved Chiapas, Mexico, why nobody ever goes to Brasília, and how photography helps us relate to each other. Mr. Answer Man answers the question “Is it ever okay to lie?”

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05/15/13 Bad darkrooms, baking bread, “Mercury Blues,” the newest f-word, and Hillary Clinton’s legs

Photographer/teacher Donna Jordan Dusel joins us in the studio and among the topics discussed are the importance of being patient, the connection between photography and thinking, presiding over a group of artists, the memorable year 1980, and the honest-to-goodness, we’re-not-kidding-folks, we-really mean-it-this-time, last of the 30 ways photography is good for you. The inimitable Mr. Answer Man addresses the question: “Are video games contributing to violence?“

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4/28/13 Sunsets, poetry, art subsidies, and parental (dis)couragement in the arts

Painter/poet/gallery owner George Grace joins us in a post-metabolic discussion that involves dead life painting, cutting six inches off Henry Lewis, presidential pitfalls, blood meridians, and living in Nashville. In addition to all that, George reads two poems about plastic bags and falling off a ladder. Mr. Answer Man perorates on the power of puppy love.