August 31, 2016 EP. 9 – STEPHANIE GANCAYCO
Stephanie Gancayco is a New York-based, Bay Area-raised Filipina-American womenswear designer with a deep passion for indigenous rights and women’s economic empowerment. After finishing her formal fashion design education at California College of the Arts, she began her career in the fashion industry in 2007 and has worked with some of the industry’s leading designers such as Anna Sui, Jen Kao, and Vince Camuto. With her own brand, Stephanie collaborates with indigenous women artisans in the Philippines to translate traditional attire and textiles into contemporary ready-to-wear that feels distinctly Filipino + American. She aspires to promote and preserve Filipino culture, bring income to indigenous communities, and pride to Pinoys about their pre-colonial roots. Stephanie is also working on an online platform for conversations on Filipina identity called hellapinay.com, set to launch in late 2016. She is currently the product director for Citizen x Hound, a locally-produced line of dog accessories that celebrates the bond between human and hound, and also designs knitwear for one of the largest women’s retailers in the world.
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April 9, 2014 Ep. 8 – JASON FRIED
Jason Fried is a native New Yorker. Educated in both Math and Music, he moves freely between the realms of art and science in his everyday life. He is a co-founder of the Brooklyn based perfume startup Bergamot, which operates on a unique model of monthly subscriptions to hand-curated, small-batch assortments of niche and rare fragrances. He is also a founding member of the Shed Story Salon, where people convene in a night-lit backyard in Red Hook to tell true stories. His desire to create unique experiences began during his days founding myopenbar.com in 2007, when he and his cohorts helped NYC residents drink for free, throwing endless free parties in the oddest of venues. In this episode, he shares with us the story of his rise to the fragrance industry, tales of the trade, and fun facts about how smell pervades everything from psychology to society to economy.
Tags: Bergamot, Brooklyn, consumerism, Eau de cologne, Eau de toilette, Fashion, Food products, get bergamot.com, memories, NYC, Perfume, Perfume industry, Scent, Scented products, senses, smell, Storytelling, The Shed Storytelling Salon
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January 5, 2014 Ep. 6 – ROB SCHWIMMER
This special extended episode offers a rare and thorough look into the musical, aesthetic, scientific, and technical facets of the quirky theremin as only by master thereminist Rob Schwimmer can provide. Recently featured in the CBS Morning Show, this Oscar winning composer/keyboardist/musician is also at the helm of the New York Theremin Society, which serves as the world’s only true outlet for the global community that is keeping the enigmatic electromagnetic invention of the 1920s fresh and futuristic. A perfect-pitched prodigy since the age of 3, Schwimmer’s home studio in Brooklyn, NY is also home to a continuum, an organ, a celeste, a harpsichord, an array of other obscure keyboard instruments, and a Steinway grand piano. Regarding his relationship with the Steinway brand, Schwimmer shared a captivating story off-air about a recurring dream he had throughout his childhood, of disappearing into a Peter Pan/Alice in Wonderland type of treehole to find himself in a magical den filled with a myriad of fine pianos. As a young adult, he visited Manhattan’s Steinway Hall, only to realize that his recurring visits to a fantastical pianoland had been inspired by the reality of this very place, which he had visited with his parents when too young to remember.
Tags: Brooklyn, Composer, Continuum, Keyboardist, Moog, Music, Musician, New York Theremin Society, NYC, Oscars, Piano, Quirky music, Red Hook, Retro, Rob Schwimmer, Strange, Strange instruments, Strange music, Theremin
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December 24, 2013 Ep. 5 – SEAN BOWMAN
Oakland-grown D.C. resident, federal employee, world traveler, extreme eater, Marine Corps Marathon runner, two-time cancer defeater, and life maximizer Sean Bowman shares his expertise as a host for Couchsurfing International, Inc.. Christmas Eve is the perfect time to sit by the digital fireside to listen to how Mr. Bowman has made room at his inn, so to speak, for over 100 people hailing from 35 different nations, compensated only in the form of modest gifts and zany experiences such as meeting a stem cell transporter from Germany, enjoying the home cooking of gay hookup app creators from New York, being propositioned by a popcorn-demanding woman from an undisclosed country, and hearing the tall but true tales from a Finnish man who survived a sauna set at 115 degrees…Celsius.
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October 19, 2012 Ep. 4 – NANCY WOLFE
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August 27, 2012 Ep. 3 – CHRISTOPHER HOLGAR DINESON
Christopher Holgar Dineson trained under legendary hairdresser Garren after completing his degree in Art History, Anthropology, and Film at the University of California, Berkeley. A master credited with over one thousand magazine covers, Garren quickly molded Christopher into a dynamic stylist who has shaped tresses and choreographed looks for actresses such as Scarlett Johansson, Drew Barrymore, Kim Kardashian, and Blake Lively, and supermodels including Gisele Bundchen, Karlie Kloss, Candice Swanepoel, Bar Rafaeli, and Alessandra Ambrosio. He has also styled for Garren in advertising campaigns by companies including Shinsegae department stores of Seoul, CoverGirl, Dior, Valentino, and Dolce & Gabbana shot by Steven Meisel, Patrick Demarchelier, Steven Klein, David Sims, and Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott. After years in the center of the whirling haute hair universe, Christopher sits with us prior to his move to California and reflects upon his New York City career. He also shares a few insiders’ secrets about celebrity hair, styling techniques, $700 haircuts, mishaps, his favorite look for men and women, and the difference between expertise and hype. [Christopher’s services include haircuts, styling, updos, and Brazilian Blowouts, with specialties in house calls, corporate styling, extensions, hair pieces, full wig fitting and styling, and bridal and special event styling. Pricing and booking are available at HairByHolgar@gmail.com.]
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July 31, 2012 Ep. 2 – CROFT VAUGHN
Croft Vaughn, springboard diving coach of Team New York Aquatics (TNYA), was a competitive high-school diver in Indiana, where he medaled at State competitions. He trained under 2008 Olympic coach John Wingfield at Ball State University Dive Camps. Later, he represented NYU Diving with Todd Kolean, and Olympic silver medalist Scott Donie as his coaches. He taught diving at NYU for 3 years before he was recruited to launch the diving program with TNYA, a Manhattan based swimming, diving, and water polo team in the United States Masters Swimming Metropolitan network. In its first year of operations, TNYA Diving brought 4 divers to the International Gay and Lesbian Aquatics (IGLA) competitions, where they brought home 7 gold medals and 2 silvers. Now in their second year, they brought 9 competitors to IGLA in Iceland, where they dominated the competitions. Croft is also a playwright, a storyteller, and an avid Country-Western dancer in New York City (he is the 2011 and 2012 advanced line dance champion for the IAGLCWDC). Amidst the 30th Olympic Games in London, he gives us an insider’s view into the physics, psychology, and fun behind this beautiful and exacting sport.
Tags: Aquatics, Athletes, Athletics, Clubs, Competition, Diving, Fear, Greg Louganis, Health, LGBT, New York City, Olympics, Pain, Psychology, Recreation, Society, Sports, Springboard, Swimming, Teams, TNYA
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July 18, 2012 Ep. 1 – SHAWN SHAFNER
Shawn Shafner is an actor, educator, and creator of The People’s Own Organic Power Project, or The POOP Project. The organization’s mission is to heal the cultural shame that makes potty talk taboo, and promote critical conversation about sustainable sanitation. A self-described “puru,” Shafner strives to change the minds and hearts of people, or consumers, to spark a (literally) bottom up awareness and change in our misconceptions and policies in dealing with (or merely flushing away) human waste. In a great attempt to break down the social barriers, Shafner and a crew of four others will perform his production, “Eat $h*t,” on July 22nd at the 59E59 theatre in New York City, then head off to the prestigious Edinburgh Festival Fringe across the pond in Scotland with a little help from Fractured Atlas and money from their okwn pockets. Even under extreme 11th hour pressure, Mr. Shafner kindly takes the time to enlighten us all on the history of the toilet, the shame in shame, the sanitation system of New York City, the World Toilet Summit, the true scatological hallucinations of Protestant reformer Martin Luther, the constipation of Hitler, and the process of writing, directing, producing, acting, and singing in his own play. He even sings us a beautiful song.
Tags: Art, Consumer, Culture, Edinburgh, EPA, History, New York City, Play, Poop, Production, Society, Theater, Toilet, Urban Planning, Waste Management, Water
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