Like any self-respecting nerd, I have spent many years listening to 99% Invisible, the podcast about the hidden design that surrounds us all. It’s really the podcast success story that everyone should learn from: a small radio spot that was extended by host Roman Mars from his bedroom and then turned into a genuine, consistent and creative media outlet. And it’s even survived acquisition relatively unscathed, which is rare: five years ago, when 99pi was […]
You can call it on the Golden Age of Podcasting™: it’s over, it’s done. What started, sort of, with Serial has come to an end—and not just because Adnan finally got out. After a blossoming of studios and projects over the last decade, things hit a plateau when the services all rolled up into a handful of dominant players, and we are now going through an inevitable and depressing dip as the dominance turns into […]
I loved hearing Annie-B Parson talk about choreography on the Time Sensitive podcast—particularly her work over many years with David Byrne. Parson has worked on a large number of projects in the past two or three decades, culminating in American Utopia (I saw the show when it was on its original tour, totally fascinating.) But the most interesting part was that she now came to see all of those works as, ultimately, the same piece. […]
