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PCs get upgraded, MSX comes to Europe & Coinop goes cartridge These stories and many more on this episode of the VGNRTM! This episode we will look back at the biggest stories in and around the video game industry in August 1984.  As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and those are of course always a bit behind the actual events. Alex Smith of They Create Worlds is our cohost.  Check out his podcast here: https://www.theycreateworlds.com/ and order his book here: https://www.theycreateworlds.com/book Get us on your mobile device: Android:  https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly92aWRlb2dhbWVuZXdzcm9vbXRpbWVtYWNoaW5lLmxpYnN5bi5jb20vcnNz iOS:      https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/video-game-newsroom-time-machine And if you like what we are doing here at the podcast, don't forget to like us on your podcasting app of choice, YouTube, and/or support us on patreon! https://www.patreon.com/VGNRTM Send comments on Mastodon @videogamenewsroomtimemachine@oldbytes.space Or twitter @videogamenewsr2 Or Instagram https://www.instagram.com/vgnrtm Or videogamenewsroomtimemachine@gmail.com Links: If you don't see all the links, find them here:     https://www.patreon.com/posts/127470165 7 Minutes in Heaven: Impossible Mission Video Version: https://www.patreon.com/posts/7-minutes-in-127469932     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_Mission     http://www.mayhem64.co.uk/interview/caswell.htm Corrections: August 1984 Ep - https://www.patreon.com/posts/august-1984-121143199 Ethan's fine site The History of How We Play: https://thehistoryofhowweplay.wordpress.com/     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namco     https://archive.org/details/game_machine_magazine_jp     https://machinerobo.fandom.com/wiki/Machine_Robo:_Revenge_of_Cronos      1964: Libraries of the future are online     Popular Electronics Sept. 1964, pg. 28 1974     Atari buys Kee      https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/70s/1974/CB-1974-09-21.pdf  pg. 36 Fred introduced in PCC     https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/co/1974/08/020031/13rRUB7a13N        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COSMAC_ELF     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Weisbecker     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSlDY6ZPIvY 1984 Toy stocks rally     Traditional toys soar as electronic games flash 'Tilt', The San Diego Union-Tribune, September 2, 1984, Section: Business, Pg 1-8, Byline: Don Bauder             Plastic robots from Japan changing the shape of the toy market, Christian Science Monitor (Boston, MA), September 21, 1984, Friday, Section: Business; Pg. 19, byline: Francine Kiefer Nintendo preps for cartridge future     Replay September 1984, pg. 3      Williams enters new production year with caution     Replay September 1984, pg. 3     https://www.mobygames.com/game/17500/star-wars-return-of-the-jedi/      Coin op revenue hit over drinking age laws     Replay September 1984, pg. 7     https://www.wgbh.org/podcasts/the-big-dig     https://youtu.be/7zr4RBw5un4?si=euu-naPtomBbqME3 Tower of Druaga gets write up in Super Soft     Super Soft Magazine, September 1984, pg. 2     https://www.mobygames.com/game/19625/the-tower-of-druaga/          Save the 7800 campaign started     https://archive.org/details/computer-entertainer-3-6/page/93/mode/1up?view=theater     https://fanlore.org/wiki/History_of_Star_Trek_Fan_Campaigns Atari renegotiating Lucasfilm deal     https://archive.org/details/computer-entertainer-3-6/page/88/mode/1up?view=theater      Chip maker feels video game fall     "GOULD'S WOES SPUR STOCK DROP, The New York Times, September 7, 1984, Friday, Late City Final ,Edition, Section: Section D; Page 1, Column 6; Financial Desk, Byline: By ERIC N. BERG     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gould_Electronics" Atari Japan to close     Atari Inc. planning to pull out of the Japanese market, The Japan Economic Journal, September 25, 1984, Section: SERVICE/LEISURE/FOOD; Pg. 17 No mention of video games in Playthings     Playthings, September 1984      Upgrade your PC     Creative Computing September 1984 pg. 125 Commodore and Atari target the middle     Commodore, Atari Spar in Mid-Price Fight, ADWEEK, September 3, 1984, Eastern Edition, Byline: Gail Belsky     https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-09-27/page/n4/mode/1up?view=theater Computer Entertainer doesn't believe Atari can deliver     https://archive.org/details/computer-entertainer-3-6/mode/1up?view=theater Sinclair financials dissapoint     https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-09-27/mode/1up?view=theater     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_QL Byte reviews the QL     https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Byte/80s/Byte-1984-09.pdf  pg. 415 Amstrad disk drive announced     https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-09-27/page/n3/mode/1up?view=theater     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_CPC Europe to get MSX'd      MSX home computers to be shipped to Europe, The Japan Economci Journal, September 4, 1984, Section: Information Processing, Pg. 14     https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-09-27/mode/1up?view=theater     https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-09-20/page/n4/mode/1up?view=theater Philips ready to launch MSX machine     https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-09-06/mode/2up?view=theater     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philips_VG_8000 Plus 4 delays will limit supply     https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-09-13/mode/2up?view=theater       https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-09-20/page/n21/mode/1up?view=theater The C16 kills the Vic20 in Europe     https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-09-13/mode/2up?view=theater Currys gives up on PC market     Company Briefing: Currys cuts its Micro-C losses / Micro computer shops closed, The Guardian (London), September 4, 1984 Elite released     https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-09-27/page/n67/mode/1up?view=theater Deus Ex Machina brings multimedia home     https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-09-06/mode/2up?view=theater       https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-09-13/page/n59/mode/2up?view=theater     Complete Playthrough: https://youtu.be/WhtI3BEgZwE?si=18V8aCTW6H6ek52l The Mimi travels to the Apple II     'Voyage of the Mimi'' Beckons Youngsters to Science Careers, The Associated Press, September 10, 1984, Monday, PM cycle, Byline: By LEE MITGANG, AP Education Writer     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Voyage_of_the_Mimi       https://archive.org/details/VoyageOfTheMimi4amCrack/Voyage%20of%20the%20Mimi%20-%20Rescue%20Mission%20title%20screen.png Find the treasure... using your computer!     Paperback Picks, United Press International, September 4, 1984, Tuesday, BC cycle, Section: Lifestyle     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure:_In_Search_of_the_Golden_Horse Melbourne returns to Middle Earth     https://archive.org/details/Computer_Video_Games_Issue_035_1984-09_EMAP_Publishing_GB/page/n21/mode/2up?view=theater           https://www.mobygames.com/group/7319/the-tolkien-software-adventure-series/ Ultimate announces "the first step in a new generation of computer adventure simulation developments."         https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-09-27/page/n4/mode/1up?view=theater Beach Head to get Speccy port     https://archive.org/details/Computer_Video_Games_Issue_035_1984-09_EMAP_Publishing_GB/page/n23/mode/2up?view=theater         https://archive.org/details/Computer_Video_Games_Issue_035_1984-09_EMAP_Publishing_GB/page/n25/mode/2up?view=theater Activision licenses to Japan     https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-09-27/page/n4/mode/1up?view=theater       https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-09-20/page/n11/mode/1up?view=theater Synapse sues Atari     https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-09-06/mode/2up?view=theater IBM enters office suite market and shoots down Kmart. p Jr rumor     IBM in Merger Talks With Rolm / Unveils New Software, The Associated Press, September 25, 1984, Section: Business News, Byline: James F. Peltz      Software Toolworks cooking book     No Headline in Original, PR Newswire, September 25, 1984 PC Paintbrush announced     https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Byte/80s/Byte-1984-09.pdf  pg. 9      SEC goes digital     S.E.C. inaugurates computer filing system,  The New York Times, September 25, 1984, Section D, Page 1, Column 1, byline: Kenneth B. Noble         https://www.nytimes.com/1984/09/25/business/sec-inaugurates-computer-filing-system.html NABU on the ropes     In Danger of Folding, The Associated Press, September 19, 1984, Section: Business News, Byline: Norman Black Viewdata still not catching on..     Futures (Micro Guardian): How the Post Office failed to deliver / Prestel, The Guardian (London), September 13, 1984     https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-09-20/page/n4/mode/1up?view=theater        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compunet Viewtron user profile     No Headline in original, PR Newswire, September 14, 1984, Dateline: Miami, Sept. 14 Publishing     Computer Magazine boom busts     Bloom Fades in Computer Magazine Market, The Associated Press, September 30, 1984, Sunday, BC cycle, Section: Business News, Byline: By SKIP WOLLENBERG, AP Business Writer Computer makers prep for Xmas ad blitz     Dreaming of a Byte Christmas, ADWEEK, September 3, 1984, All Editions, Section: Special Report; Fall Preview 1984; Computers, Byline, Gail Belsky Scott Cohen's Zap! released     Business Today; Will Atari be brought back with needed combination of creativity and pragmatism, September 27, 1984, Thursday, BC cycle, Section: Financial, Byline: By GAIL COLLINS, UPI Business Writer        https://archive.org/details/zaprisefall00cohe      FCC helps fight coinop piracy     Play Meter, September 1. 1984, pg. 12 Electronic smuggling on the rise in Brazil     Contraband of Electronic Components Grows in Brazil, The Associated Press, September 22, 1984, Saturday, BC cycle, Section: Business News, Byline: By STAN LEHMAN, Associated Press Writer Activision sues Revco     Activision; Amending lawsuit against Revco, Business Wire, September 26, 1984 Psychics didn't see crash coming...     No Headline In Original, United Press International, September 13, 1984, Thursday, PM cycle, Section: Domestic News        https://www.upi.com/Archives/1984/09/13/The-psychic-consulting-firm-Delphi-Associates-must-not-have/1212463896000/        https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/russell-targ Video Games go ART!     HORIZONS-Art; Nuclear disarmament art exhibit premieres, United Press International, September 30, 1984, Sunday, BC cycle, Section: Domestic News, Byline: By DAN SUSSMAN     https://www.vdb.org/titles/mike-builds-shelter        https://www.mobygames.com/game/73468/mike-builds-a-shelter/        https://rhizome.org/editorial/2015/jun/16/mike-builds-shelter/ CAD CAM computervision      Market Outlook; All agree CAD/CAM sales will soar, Industry Week, September 17, 1984, Section: INFORMATION, Management; Pg. 111, Byline: John Teresko     1981: How COMPUTER GRAPHICS Will Change the World | Horizon | Retro Tech | BBC Archive  https://youtu.be/W8-54-9J9ns?si=uB01CAs8znTVmZfx      Senior's test their skills on Crystal Castle     ELDERLY TEST COORDINATION WITH VIDEO GAME, The New York Times, September 9, 1984, Sunday, Late City Final Edition, Section: Section 1; Part 2; Page 56, Column 2; Metropolitan Desk, Byline: AP, Dateline: PARSIPPANY, N.J., Sept. 8 Nolan is back!     "AXLON-GAMES; Nolan Bushnell returns to game business with new firm, Business Wire, September 24, 1984, Monday     https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamepublisher/2242/axlon        https://gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.php/Axlon Dragon's Lair debuts on Saturday morning     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s_Lair_(TV_series) Mylstar RIP     Coke unit to close video game maker, United Press International, September 24, 1984, Monday, BC cycle, Section: Financial     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlieb Recommended Links: The History of How We Play: https://thehistoryofhowweplay.wordpress.com/ Gaming Alexandria: https://www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/ They Create Worlds: https://tcwpodcast.podbean.com/ Digital Antiquarian: https://www.filfre.net/ The Arcade Blogger: https://arcadeblogger.com/ Retro Asylum: http://retroasylum.com/category/all-posts/ Retro Game Squad: http://retrogamesquad.libsyn.com/ Playthrough Podcast: https://playthroughpod.com/ Retromags.com: https://www.retromags.com/ Games That Weren't - https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/ Sound Effects by Ethan Johnson of History of How We Play. Copyright Karl Kuras  

Over the past decade Micaiah Carter has established himself as one of the most exciting and admired young photographers working in the field of portraiture and fashion. With a vision all his own, Carter's images are preternaturally sophisticated. His lighting is intentional but not attention-seeking, and his subjects always seem fully themselves, whether he's photographing a celebrity, a musician, or a family member. Micaiah's portraits are sincere, dignified representations of the sitters while staying true to his distinctive aesthetic. His stylized ideas and assiduous attention to color and light have culminated in a body of work that feels timeless and pertinent at the same time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/art

Over the past decade Micaiah Carter has established himself as one of the most exciting and admired young photographers working in the field of portraiture and fashion. With a vision all his own, Carter's images are preternaturally sophisticated. His lighting is intentional but not attention-seeking, and his subjects always seem fully themselves, whether he's photographing a celebrity, a musician, or a family member. Micaiah's portraits are sincere, dignified representations of the sitters while staying true to his distinctive aesthetic. His stylized ideas and assiduous attention to color and light have culminated in a body of work that feels timeless and pertinent at the same time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies

Over the past decade Micaiah Carter has established himself as one of the most exciting and admired young photographers working in the field of portraiture and fashion. With a vision all his own, Carter's images are preternaturally sophisticated. His lighting is intentional but not attention-seeking, and his subjects always seem fully themselves, whether he's photographing a celebrity, a musician, or a family member. Micaiah's portraits are sincere, dignified representations of the sitters while staying true to his distinctive aesthetic. His stylized ideas and assiduous attention to color and light have culminated in a body of work that feels timeless and pertinent at the same time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Over the past decade Micaiah Carter has established himself as one of the most exciting and admired young photographers working in the field of portraiture and fashion. With a vision all his own, Carter's images are preternaturally sophisticated. His lighting is intentional but not attention-seeking, and his subjects always seem fully themselves, whether he's photographing a celebrity, a musician, or a family member. Micaiah's portraits are sincere, dignified representations of the sitters while staying true to his distinctive aesthetic. His stylized ideas and assiduous attention to color and light have culminated in a body of work that feels timeless and pertinent at the same time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/photography

For the 35th episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with influential art dealer Michael Findlay about his captivating memoir, "Portrait of the Art Dealer as a Young Man," published by Prestel.This vibrant conversation takes listeners back to New York's electric downtown art scene of the 1960s and 70s, where Findlay directed one of SoHo's first galleries and launched exhibitions for artists now considered icons. With charm and wit, Findlay shares candid stories of his rise in the art world, recounting encounters with Andy Warhol, David Hockney, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and other creative forces that defined an era when appreciation for art outweighed its investment potential.Moving beyond nostalgia, Findlay provides sharp insights into how the art world transformed from the experimental downtown scene to today's global market. Through vivid anecdotes about The Chelsea Hotel, Max's Kansas City, and Studio 54, he recreates a New York where creative experimentation flourished without today's commercial pressures.Whether you're fascinated by cultural history, the evolution of the art market, or simply love a good story, Findlay's irreverent, honest perspective offers a fresh look at a pivotal moment when art dealers, artists, and collectors converged to create lasting cultural change.ABOUT THE AUTHOR One of the earliest dealers in SoHo, Michael Findlay showcased artists including John Baldessari, Joseph Beuys, and Hannah Wilke. Named Head of Impressionist and Modern Paintings at Christie's in 1984, he later became its International Director of Fine Arts. Since 2000 he has been a director at Acquavella Galleries, New York, which in recent years has held major exhibitions of important Impressionist, modern, and contemporary masters. His other books include “The Value of Art" and “Seeing Slowly – Looking At Modern Art.”PURCHASE THE BOOKhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746815/portrait-of-the-art-dealer-as-a-young-man-by-michael-findlay/ SUBSCRIBE, FOLLOW AND HEAR INTERVIEWS:For more information, visit meganfoxkelly.com, hear our past interviews, and subscribe at the bottom of our Of Interest page for new posts.Follow us on Instagram: @meganfoxkelly"Reading the Art World" is a live interview and podcast series with leading art world authors hosted by art advisor Megan Fox Kelly. The conversations explore timely subjects in the world of art, design, architecture, artists and the art market, and are an opportunity to engage further with the minds behind these insightful new publications. Music by Bob Golden

Myrina Prestel est avocate associée chez Squair. Elle assiste notamment les professionnels de la sécurité dans le cadre de leurs litiges contre le CNAPS. Myrina conseille également ces professionnels afin de leur permettre de construire un projet structuré, dans le respect de la règlementation relatives aux activités privées de sécurité.‍Elle accompagne par ailleurs l'ensemble des acteurs de la sécurité publique en traitant les différentes problématiques auxquels ils peuvent se trouver confrontés. A ce titre, elle intervient au stade de la procédure administrative et disciplinaire, ainsi qu'au contentieux devant les juridictions.***Avec huit bureaux (Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Nantes, Bordeaux, Lille, Montpellier et Aix-en-Provence) et près de 100 avocats intervenant dans tous les domaines du droit des affaires, Squair fait partie des 50 plus grands cabinets d'avocats en France. Nos avocats apportent aux clients du cabinet un conseil à haute valeur ajoutée et un accompagnement sur mesure pour la réussite de leurs projets et la défense de leurs intérêts.Au cœur de l'ADN de Squair, on trouve le respect de la liberté des avocats. Elise Maillot, directrice communication et marketing du cabinet, les interviewe chaque mois pour échanger avec eux sur la façon dont ils vivent cette liberté au sein de l'équipe Squair. L'occasion d'en découvrir un peu plus sur eux, sur leur carrière et, de façon plus générale, sur leur identité.Un podcast produit par Squair Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

This is the audio track from my video review, which I encourage you to watch on YouTube or read on Substack.In a new book from Prestel, simply titled Gregory Crewdson, editor Walter Moser — the head of the department of photography at the ALBERTINA in Vienna — has curated a selection of images from all of Crewdson's major bodies of work. Prestel was kind enough to send me a copy for review and I couldn't be more thrilled to talk about it...LINKSGregory Crewdson - ALBERTINA modernMaking EveningsideThere But Not There - Gregory Crewdson DocumentaryCrewdson Trail LogBeneath the Roses - Crewdson Trail LogDream House Archive - New York Times MagazineGregory Crewdson on Process DrivenDavid Fincher - Invisible DetailsCONNECT WITH MEWebsite: https://jefferysaddoris.com  Instagram: @jefferysaddorisEmail: talkback@jefferysaddoris.comSUBSCRIBESubscribe to Almost Everything with Jeffery Saddoris in your favorite podcast app. You can also subscribe to my newsletter on Substack.

Last week, I released a video review of a new book from Prestel about Gregory Crewdson. It was significant for me, not just because Gregory is one of my photographic heroes — although yes, that is part of it — but because it was the first project I've done in quite a while that was really just for me. I've been on a bit of a “creative hiatus” for the better part of a year and I've only done a few videos before this. So more than anything, I wanted to see if I could pull it off and have it be interesting and feel like me, rather than just another YouTube photo book flip-through. And before I get too far into this, I want to thank Andy Adams at FlakPhoto, without whom it may not have even happened. Andy is a good guy and if you're at all interested in photography, he's well worth a follow.A few months ago I started seeing a new therapist, and part of what we've been working on is something called Somatic Therapy, which I'll include a couple links to in the notes if you'd like to learn more about it. Basically, somatic therapy focuses on the body and how emotions such as trauma and anxiety manifest as physical sensations. When I'm sharing a particular story or experience, my therapist will sometimes interrupt me and ask me to focus on how it feels to talk about or relive the experience — and not emotionally or existentially, but physically. It's been fascinating to start noticing changes in my breath or heart rate or feel tension start to develop in my hands and shoulders when I'm sharing something disturbing or painful. On the other side, and this is where the video fits in, we're working on identifying objects, memories, and pursuits and activities that give me joy or pleasure and naming or defining what those things feel like.LINKSGregory Crewdson video reviewWhat is Somatic Therapy?Somatic Experiencing TherapyThe Difference Between Reacting and RespondingWhat is Internal Family Systems?CONNECT WITH MEWebsite: https://jefferysaddoris.com  Instagram: @jefferysaddorisEmail: talkback@jefferysaddoris.comSUBSCRIBESubscribe to Almost Everything with Jeffery Saddoris in your favorite podcast app. You can also subscribe to my newsletter on Substack.

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this our 255th episode our guest is Robert Nickelsberg. Robert Nickelsberg worked as a Time magazine contract photographer for nearly 30 years beginning in El Salvador and Central America from 1981 to 1984. He is the author of, “Afghanistan – A Distant War,” published by Prestel and “Afghanistan's Heritage: Restoring Spirit and Stone,” done in conjunction with the U.S. Department of State, published in English, Dari and Pashtu. His latest book, “Legacy of Lies: El Salvador 1981–1984,” will be published Sept. 3. Follow me on Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/robaburg.bsky.social Follow me on Mastodon: newsie.social/@therobburgessshow Check out my Linktree: linktr.ee/therobburgessshow

"Die phantastische Welt des Märchenkönigs" - von Klaus Reichold und Thomas Endl – Hörbahn on Stage Klaus Reichold und Thomas Endl lesen eine Szene aus ihrem Buch Klaus Reichold und Thomas Endl im Gespräch mit Uwe Kullnick Moderation: Uwe Kullnick Als Kind will er Schiffskapitän werden. Als König fördert er die moderne Luftfahrt. In der Nähe von Neuschwanstein plant er einen Chinesischen Sommerpalast. Dass er lange überlegt, Bayern zu verkaufen und auszuwandern, geht aus Unterlagen hervor, die Klaus Reichold und Thomas Endl im Geheimen Hausarchiv der Wittelsbacher aufgestöbert haben. Zur Debatte standen u.a. Afghanistan, Ägypten – und Rügen. Die Autoren portraitieren Ludwig II. als Kind des 19. Jahrhunderts, der eine rasante gesellschaftliche, technische und wirtschaftliche Entwicklung erlebt, aber lieber in die Gegenwelten des Historismus und des Orientalismus flüchtet.Mit über 90 Abbildungen und vielen Verweisen zu digitalisierten Quellen und weiterführenden Informationen. edition tingeltangel (www.edition-tingeltangel.de) Zum 175. Geburtstag des Märchenkönigs in zweiter Auflage - ein Feuerwerk erstaunlicher und sinnlicher Details aus dem Leben Ludwigs II. Klaus Reichold, gebürtiger Münchner, ist Kulturhistoriker und Programmleiter der Akademie für Kulturgeschichte bavaricum@histonauten. Er hat Dokumentationen für das Bayerische Fernsehen gedreht, Hörfunk-Features geschrieben und bei Verlagen wie Hoffmann und Campe, Prestel und Pustet publiziert. Seine Publikation Keinen Kuß mehr! Reinheit! Königtum! gilt als Standardwerk. In Vorträgen und Exkursionen beschäftigt er sich immer wieder mit der  Geschichte der Wittelsbacher und  insbesondere mit König Ludwig II.   Thomas Endl, drehte gemeinsam mit Klaus Reichold für das Bayerische Fernsehen Dokumentationen, unter anderem ein Porträt über Ludwig I., den Großvater Ludwigs II. Er schrieb viele Kinderbücher, darunter die Neuschwanstein-Geschichte Niklas Märchenkönig. Und seine Mutter gehörte als Kind zu denjenigen, die bei Festveranstaltungen auf Herrenchiemsee die Kerzen im Spiegelsaal entzünden durften. Idee, Regie und Realisation Uwe Kullnick --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hoerbahn/message

Today, I'm joined by Katja Mülheim and Tobias Prestel of Prestel & Partner, a conference dedicated to family offices which they've been running for the past 12 years.  If you are wondering how to get in front of family offices, this is an episode you don't want to miss as it gives you insights into how they operate. I couldn't think of a better duo to discuss this topic, especially with their New York event coming up in just a few days from the 10th to the 11th of October.    Prestel & Partner - https://prestelandpartner.com/

Antonio and Ward dive into the vibrant pages of James and Karla Murray's new book "Store Front NYC: Photographs of the City's Independent Shops, Past and Present" on this episode of Street Shots. The Murrays recount their serendipitous journey, starting from documenting the graffiti art scene in the late '90s to capturing the rapid transformations of NYC's iconic mom-and-pop stores. The book, a testament to the city's cultural evolution, captures the spirit of neighborhoods spread across the five boroughs. The duo discusses the challenges of capturing these ever-evolving spaces and the poignant stories of the store owners. The conversation takes a deeper turn as James and Karla reflect on the emotional ties New Yorkers have with these corner stores, especially the immigrants who found both livelihood and community in them. With many of these shops now only memories, the Murrays hope their work sparks a renewed appreciation for these unique, irreplaceable facets of New York's identity. Their photographs stand as both a celebration and a call to preserve the city's soul. The book "Store Front" will be available on September 19th and can be preordered now at Amazon. ----more---- JAMES and KARLA MURRAY - Website, YouTube, Instagram, "Store Front" from Prestel (images courtesy James & Karla Murray) Store Front NYC: Photographs of the City's Independent Shops, Past and Present   (Richard's Barber Shop, Nostrand Avenue near Park Place, Crown Heights, 2004. ©James and Karla Murray)   (Katy's Candy Store, Tompkins Avenue near Vernon Avenue, Bedford-Stuyvesant, 2004. ©James and Karla Murray)   (CBGB, Bowery at Bleecker Street, East Village, 2005. ©James and Karla Murray)   (D. D'Auria & Sons Pork Store, East 187th St. near Cambreleng Avenue, Belmont, 2004. ©James and Karla Murray)   (James and Karla Murray. © James and Karla Murray)   Subscribe to our Substack Newsletter Help out the show by buying us a coffee! Send us a voice message, comment or question.   Show Links: Antonio M. Rosario's Website, Vero, Twitter and Facebook page Ward Rosin's Website, Vero, Instagram feed and Facebook page. Ornis Photo Website  The Unusual Collective Street Shots Facebook Page Street Shots Instagram     Subscribe to us on: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music iHeart Radio

Eine (Zeit-)Reise in die Welt der Urzeitriesen Dinosaurier. Vollkommen zurecht löst keine andere Tiergruppe eine ähnliche Faszination aus – bei Kindern ebenso wie bei Erwachsenen. In diesem Buch erzählt der Paläobiologe Armin Schmitt aus erster Hand von neuesten Forschungsergebnissen zu den Urzeitriesen, von spektakulären Expeditionen und überraschenden Funden. Er berichtet von populären Dinosauriern wie dem Tyrannosaurus rex, dem Liebling aller Dino-Fans, aber auch von weniger bekannten wie dem Keulenschwanzsaurier Borealopelta, der den Spitznamen »Dornröschen« trägt, weil das Fossil so gut erhalten ist, dass es aussieht als würde das Tier lediglich schlafen. Ein Lesevergnügen für alle, die sich für die größten Landlebewesen interessieren, die jemals unsere Erde bewohnten. Armin Schmitt, Jahrgang 1972, ist, seit er fünf Jahre alt war, fasziniert von Dinosauriern. Also studierte er Paläontologie u.a. in Bonn. Während dieser Zeit arbeitete er bereits als Sammlungsverwalter im Goldfußmuseum der Universität. Heute ist er Wirbeltierpaläontologe und Forschungsassistent am Geowissenschaftlichen Institut der Universität Oxford sowie Doktorand an der Universität Cambridge. Außerdem hat er für National Geographic über seine Forschung geschrieben und ist gefragter Experte für Dinosaurier in Fernsehen, Radio und Print.Ben Rennen lebt in Hamburg und ist Illustrator, Designer und Eventzeichner. An der HAW Hamburg hat er einen Bachelor und Master in Illustration abgeschlossen und seitdem bei zahlreichen Buchprojekten für Verlage wie Prestel oder cbj das Handlettering und die Covergestaltung übernommen.

In this podcast, we interview Ryan Prestel, a professional in the energy marketing industry who is passionate about building relationships and making a difference. Ryan discusses his focus on consistency and the challenges he faces in figuring out his next professional chapter.    Tune in to learn about the importance of building relationships, being present, and being vulnerable. This conversation will help you gain insights into managing stress and anxiety, including the need to eliminate unnecessary distractions and find a balance between staying informed and not becoming overwhelmed by negativity.    Tune into this episode with us to hear about:   Why focusing on consistency can lead to great outcomes. How to embrace vulnerability and authenticity to inspire creativity and empathy Tips on believing in yourself and not being afraid to speak your thoughts and opinions professionally. How to manage stress and anxiety (eliminating unnecessary distractions) And so much more!
   About Our Guest: Ryan Prestel is a lifelong entrepreneur who loves to work in the trenches with teams of smart people to find innovative solutions to complex problems. As the CEO of JadeTrack, he built the clean tech company from the early concept to scale before merging with Columbus-based IGS Energy at the end of 2020.   Ryan developed a passion for sustainability, energy, and smart buildings while at Scotts Miracle Gro (NYSE: SMG), where he was on the core team responsible for developing the first corporate sustainability plan back in 2010.   In addition to his passion for developing sustainable technology, Ryan has a proven track record of leading sales, marketing, and product teams from concept through acquisition and integration. Currently consulting, Ryan provides a growth catalyst through the orchestration of sales, marketing, and product. – Ready for more? Head over to https://www.sightshift.com/ for more learning and growth.

Barry Shorewww.barryshore.comMichael Findlayhttps://www.michaelfindlay.com/Barry Shore is known as the “Ambassador of JOY,” a mental health activist, philanthropist, multi-patent holding entrepreneur, speaker, author, podcaster, and former quadriplegic who is now swimming around the world! Barry's podcast, The JOY of LIVING, is heard globally by hundreds of thousands and has over three million downloads. His latest book, The Joy of Living: How to Slay Stress and Be Happy is available on Amazon and Apple Books. https://www.barryshore.com/Michael Findlay is a Director of Acquavella Galleries in New York City. A private art dealer for more than four decades, he was also International Director of Fine Arts at Christie's auction house. The original edition of Michael Findlay's The Value of Art (Prestel, 2012) has been translated into German, Spanish, Japanese and Korean. His second book, also by Prestel, was entitled Seeing Slowly – Looking At Modern Art. https://www.instagram.com/michaelalistairfindlay/This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3240061/advertisement

This week: Turkey and Syria. As the countries reel from the devastation of the 6 February earthquake, how can communities and agencies protect damaged heritage? We talk to Aparna Tandon from Iccrom, the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property about culture's significance in the humanitarian response to the crisis. As Alice Neel: Hot off the Griddle arrives at the Barbican Art Gallery in London, we take a tour of the show's key moments with its curator, Eleanor Nairne. And this episode's Work of the Week is a Germantown “eye-dazzler” blanket, made between 1895 and 1905 by a Diné weaver from the Navajo Nation. It's part of a new show at the Bard Graduate Center in New York, Shaped by the Loom: Weaving Worlds in the American Southwest. Hadley Jensen, the curator of the exhibition, tells us more.Disasters Emergency Committee's Turkey-Syria Earthquake: dec.org.uk; a PDF of Aparna Tandon's handbook First Aid To Cultural Heritage In Times Of Crisis is available for free at iccrom.org.Alice Neel: Hot off the Griddle, Barbican Art Gallery, London, until 21 May. The book accompanying the exhibition is published by Prestel, priced £24.99 or $29.95.Shaped by the Loom: Weaving Worlds in the American Southwest, Bard Graduate Center, New York, until 9 July. An online exhibition featuring an interactive catalogue has approximately 250 items from the American Museum of Natural History's collection of Navajo textiles will be available later this month at bgc.bard.edu. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.01.26.525744v1?rss=1 Authors: Baade, T., Michaelis, M., Prestel, A., Paone, C., Klishin, N., Scheinost, L., Nedielkov, R., Hauck, C. R., Moller, H. M. Abstract: Integrins are fundamental for cell adhesion and the formation of focal adhesions (FA). Accordingly, these receptors guide embryonic development, tissue maintenance and haemostasis, but are also involved in cancer invasion and metastasis. A detailed understanding of the molecular interactions that drive integrin activation, focal adhesion assembly, and downstream signalling cascades is critical. Here, we reveal a direct association of paxillin, a marker protein of focal adhesion sites, with the cytoplasmic tails of the integrin {beta}1 and {beta}3 subunits. The binding interface resides in paxillin's LIM3 domain, where based on the NMR structure and functional analyses a flexible, seven amino acid loop engages the unstructured part of the integrin cytoplasmic tail. Genetic manipulation of the involved residues in either paxillin or integrin {beta}3 compromises cell adhesion and motility. This direct interaction between paxillin and the integrin cytoplasmic domain identifies an alternative, kindlin-independent mode of integrin outside-in signalling particularly important for integrin {beta}3 function. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by Paper Player, LLC

In her glittering career, Sara Scott-Rivers worked extensively with both Viewdata and teletext.  Following designer-editor roles with Prestel in the 1980s, she joined Teletext Ltd prior to its launch in 1993.   Sara was kind enough to share her recollections of working with the blocky mediums with me in this podcast series.    Keep updated, joint the discord!     If you can and wish to, please give me a rating.   If you want to support the Podcast, please do you can buy me a KoFi Here You can Contact me on My Twitter Or email sunspotstories@gmail.com   music= William Rosati - Floating Also ♫ NO COPYRIGHT 8-bit Music  

For the thirteenth episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Michael Findlay, author of “The Value of Art: Money, Power, Beauty,” published by Prestel. This 2022 book is a new and expanded edition of Michael's original book, published in 2012, which has been translated into German, Spanish, Japanese and Korean, and which ARTNews hailed as “one of the best books ever published on the art world.”  A director of Acquavella Galleries in New York, Michael has been a private art dealer for over four decades. He was also International Director of Fine Arts at Christie's auction house. The book draws on Michael's life experiences as an art lover, collector, auction house specialist and art dealer. He has experienced extraordinary growth in the market over the last several decades and his insights on art and his work with artists and collectors inform this book. In addition to “The Value of Art,” Michael wrote “Seeing Slowly: Looking at Modern Art,” a book I recommend to so many of my collectors.  Lately, so much of the conversation around art and collecting and the art market is about value — value in terms of price and investment return. But Michael talks about value in terms of the inherent value of the art itself, and he gives us thoughtful perspective on not merely the financial but the emotional. The book abounds with anecdotes of collectors and artists from the 19th century through today and what those stories tell us about investing, collecting, amassing and loving art — with updated sections on NFTs and digital art. If someone thinks this is just an investment guide, they'll be pleasantly surprised that it is not.  "Reading the Art World" is a live interview and podcast series with leading art world authors hosted by art advisor Megan Fox Kelly. The conversations explore timely subjects in the world of art, design, architecture, artists and the art market, and are an opportunity to engage further with the minds behind these insightful new publications.  Megan Fox Kelly is an art advisor and President of the Association of Professional Art Advisors who works with collectors, estates and foundations.  For more information, visit: meganfoxkelly.com. Follow us on Instagram: @meganfoxkelly, and Twitter: @mfkartadvisory. Purchase “The Value of Art: Money, Power, Beauty” by Michael Findlay at Prestel.   Music composed by Bob Golden.

Dinosaurier halten früher oder später in vielen Familien Einzug. Die Bücher, die es zum Thema gibt, sind meistens, sind wir ehrlich, einfach nicht schön – und oft wissenschaftlich veraltet. Carla hat sich auf die Suche nach jenen gemacht, auf deren Ästhetik sich Kinder und Erwachsene einigen können – und die sich auch inhaltlich von der breiten Masse abheben.Von vorne: Tolle Bücher von den Einstieg in die Paläontologie sind „Mein großes Buch: Dinosaurier“ (illustriert von Natasha Durley, ars Edition 2020) und das Klappenbilderbuch „Gab es Dinos wirklich“ (von Katy Danes, illustriert von Marta Alvarez Miguens, Usborne 2021).Um ein Thema, das in Kinderbüchern nicht sooo omnipräsent ist, wie Urzeitriesen, nämliche vegane/vegetarische Ernährung, gehts in „T-Veg: Der fürchterliche Früchte-Fresser“ (von Smriti Prasadam-Halls, illustriert von Katherina Manolessou. Prestel 2017). „Tony T-Rex und seine Familie“ (von Mike Benton, illustriert von Rob Hodgson, Seemann Henschel 2020) ist das wohl persönlichste Dinosaurierbuch – und eigentlich auch das lustigste.Vielfältige Geschichten zum Vorlesen finden sich in „Der kleine Fuchs liest vor. Die Dinos sind los!“ (von Carola Sieverding, illustriert von Nima Kellner) und (sogar zweisprachig) in der Bilderbuchzeitschrift „Papperlapapp“. Die Ausgabe Nummer 11 widmet sich voll und ganz Dinosauriern.Es müssen übrigens nicht immer Bücher sein, um Sprache zu fördern. „Dino-Bingo“ und das „Dinosaurier und ihre Knochen“-Memospiel (beide aus dem Laurence King Verlag) sind in dieser Hinsicht sehr empfehlenswert.„Triceratops, T-Rex, Supersaurus“ (von Virginie Aladjidi, illustriert von Emmanuelle Tchoukriel, Gerstenberg 2022) ist ein feines Nachschlagewerk. Richtig cool und informativ ist außerdem „Alles, was wir über Dinosaurier wissen, ist falsch!“(von Nick Crumpton, illustriert von Gavin Scott, Penguin Junior 2022). Mein absolutes Highlight auf dem Gebiet ist das feministische Dinobuch „Ein T-Rex namens Sue Dinosaurier und ihre Entdeckerinnen“ (von Birk Grüling, illustriert von Lucia Zamolo, Klett Kinderbuch 2022).Der Journalist und Papa Birk Grüling ist im Sprachi-Interview zu Gast und teilt seine Begeisterung für Dinosaurier und die Frauen, die sie erforsch(t)en. Außerdem gibt er Tipps für Vereinbarkeit im Familienleben.Leseratte Ro hat den Dusty Diggers-Krimi „Gekrächze aus der Urzeit: Das Geheimnis des Urvogels Archaeopteryx“ (von Silke Fry, illustriert von Marie Geissler, Seemann Henschel 2021) gelesen. 

THIS EPISODE HAS EVERYTHING!   Cults (in this case an evangelical church) and the impact of an us vs. them mentality. How Ariel's song Part Of Your World from The Little Mermaid is the feminist manifesto we need. Sex & Masturbation as avenues to reclaim power an autonomy of our physical and Energetic bodies. Puppets! Kayla straddled the world of the church and the world of theater for years. Being in the world and not OF the world and how that plays into her evolution out of the church and into herself.    Kayla is the owner of Feel Good Pilates NYC where she teaches clients, hosts teacher training programs and workshops, and provides a supportive home to NYC fitness professionals. Kayla has also been a professional puppeteer and stage actor for over a decade! Learn more about Kayla at www.kaylaconsults.com and on IG @feelgoodpilatesnyc.   This episode is brought to you in partnership with Oh Nut!    Do you or someone you love experience pain with penetration? Meet Oh Nut! Soft, stretchy, and oh-so-comfy, Ohnut is a simple and convenient way to adjust when penetration feels too deep (eep!). Made of 4 interlocking rings, you can customize the depth—without sacrificing sensation. Explore adding and removing rings at any time with any position, so that both you and your partner can focus on what matters most—each other :)  LEARN MORE HERE and use code ALISSA7 to save $7!

Our guest this week is Alexandra Lange, famed architecture and design critic, and author of the brand new best-seller Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall. In a wide-ranging interview we get Alexandra's perspectives on the history and cultural significant of shopping malls. We dig into the fascinating story of Victor Gruen and how his design ideas shaped the evolution of regional malls for decades. Then we explore how malls began to lose their relevance, particularly as department stores increasingly found themselves stuck in the boring middle. Lastly wonder what's next for malls and what it might take for them to have a remarkable future.But first we give our hot-takes on the latest retail news, including shaky earnings reports from several wobbly unicorns: Warby Parker, Allbirds and The Real Real, contrasting their performance with Yeti's wholesale first growth strategy. We also discuss Signet's fire sale priced acquisition of one of the OG's of DTC, Blue Nile, before wrapping up with Bed, Bath & Beyond's decision to bail on one of its new private brands ("Wild Sage") after its rookie season.GroceryShop discount offer:Valid for Retailers and Brands only, use code RBR1950  to access our special rate / ticket price is $US1950.  Offer code  expires 9/22/22.Past podcast episodes of note:Understanding Warby Parker and Customer-Based Valuation with Dan McCarthyThe Great Wholesale v. DTC Debate with Simeon Siegel About AlexandraAlexandra Lange is a design critic. Her essays, reviews and profiles have appeared in numerous design publications including Architect, Harvard Design Magazine, and Metropolis, as well as in The Atlantic, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, and the New York Times. She is a columnist for Bloomberg CityLab, and has been a featured writer at Design Observer, an opinion columnist at Dezeen, and the architecture critic for Curbed.Her latest book, Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall, was published by Bloomsbury USA in June 2022.Her previous book, The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids was published by Bloomsbury USA in 2018. Research for the book was supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Design of Childhood was named one of Planetizen's Top 10 Urban Planning Books of 2018 and has been an assigned text in art and architecture studios at ASU, Columbia, Harvard, MIT, UPenn, VCU and Yale.Alexandra is also the author of Writing About Architecture: Mastering the Language of Buildings and Cities (Princeton Architectural Press, 2012), a primer on how to read and write architecture criticism, as well as the e-book The Dot-Com City: Silicon Valley Urbanism (Strelka, 2012), which considers the message of the physical spaces of Facebook, Google, and Apple.In 2021, Alexandra became editorial advisor to the podcast New Angle: Voice, produced by the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation. The podcast showcases the work of pioneering women of American architecture, and the first five-episode season featured Julia Morgan, Natalie de Blois, Helen Fong, Norma Sklarek and Florence Knoll. Several episodes were broadcast on 99 Percent Invisible.Alexandra co-wrote and co-produced “Masters of Modern Design: The Art of the Japanese American Experience,” a 2019 KCET Artbound documentary on Japanese American designers in the postwar era, which was based on one of her Curbed columns. “Masters of Modern Design” won a 2020 LA Area Emmy Award.Radio and podcast appearances include NPR Weekend Edition and Marketplace, as well as Studio 360, 99 Percent Invisible, Decoder Ring, The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC and Think on KERA. Alexandra has lectured widely at universities, museums and design conferences on topics ranging from the history of women architecture critics to the opulent modernism of Alexander Girard to the best use of social media by architects. She has also taught design criticism at New York University and the School of Visual Arts.Alexandra was a 2014 Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She won a 2018 New York Press Club Award for Feature Reporting – Internet for her Curbed story, “No Loitering, No Skateboarding, No Baggy Pants,” on teens and public space. In 2019, she was awarded a Steven Heller Prize for Cultural Commentary by AIGA. In 2020, Alexandra was the recipient of the Stephen A. Kliment Oculus Award from AIA New York, given to architectural journalists. She was also awarded the 2020 BRIO Prize by the eponymous Swedish toy company, which honors researchers and non-profits focused on creating a better world through play.Alexandra has long been interested in the creation of modern domestic life, a theme running through Design Research: The Store that Brought Modern Living to American Homes (Chronicle, 2010), which she co-authored with Jane Thompson, as well as her contributions to Serious Play: Design in Midcentury America (Yale, 2018), Alexander Girard: A Designer's Universe (Vitra, 2016), Formica Forever (Metropolis, 2013), and Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future (Yale, 2006). Her latest contributions on the topic include a chapter on design for children in Scandinavian Design and the United States, 1890 – 1980 (Prestel, 2020) and the foreword to Designing Motherhood (MIT Press, 2021). Her 2005 dissertation, “Tower Typewriter and Trademark: Architects, Designers and the Corporate Utopia, 1956-1964,” discussed the design programs and design networks at postwar American corporations. About UsSteve Dennis is an advisor, keynote speaker and author on strategic growth and business innovation. You can learn more about Steve on his       website.    The expanded and revised edition of his bestselling book  Remarkable Retail: How To Win & Keep Customers in the Age of Disruption is now available at  Amazon or just about anywhere else books are sold. Steve regularly shares his insights in his role as a      Forbes senior contributor and on       Twitter and       LinkedIn. You can also check out his speaker "sizzle" reel      here.Michael LeBlanc  is the Founder & President of M.E. LeBlanc & Company Inc and a Senior Advisor to Retail Council of Canada as part of his advisory and consulting practice.   He brings 25+ years of brand/retail/marketing & eCommerce leadership experience, and has been on the front lines of retail industry change for his entire career.  Michael is the producer and host of a network of leading podcasts including Canada's top retail industry podcast,       The Voice of Retail, plus  Global E-Commerce Tech Talks  ,      The Food Professor  with Dr. Sylvain Charlebois and now in its second season, Conversations with CommerceNext!  You can learn more about Michael   here  or on     LinkedIn. Be sure and check out Michael's latest venture for fun and influencer riches - Last Request Barbecue,  his YouTube BBQ cooking channel!

We saw Ken's presentation to the Prestel & Partner Family Office Forum in London which was great, But what was really enlightening was his live report in the briefing. Ultra High Net Worth Individuals are taking greater risks and seeking philanthropic investments… So, how did they respond to Water on Demand's unique societal benefit and yield generating structure? Find out in this episode!

Wanda M. Corn's book Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern (Prestel Publishing, 2017) explores how Georgia O'Keeffe lived her life steeped in modernism, bringing the same style she developed in her art to her dress, her homes, and her lifestyle. Richly illustrated with images of her art and views of the two homes she designed and furnished in New Mexico, the book also includes never before published photographs of O'Keeffe's clothes. The author has attributed some of the most exquisite of these garments to O'Keeffe, a skilled seamstress who understood fabric and design, and who has become an icon in today's fashion world as much for her personal style as for her art. As one of her friends stated, O'Keeffe “never allowed her life to be one thing and her painting another.” This fresh and carefully researched study brings O'Keeffe's style to life, illuminating how this beloved American artist purposefully proclaimed her modernity in the way she dressed and posed for photographers, from Alfred Stieglitz to Bruce Weber. This beautiful book accompanied the first museum exhibition to bring together photographs, clothes, and art to explore O'Keeffe's unified modernist aesthetic. WANDA M. CORN is Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor Emerita in Art History at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. Her publications include Grant Wood: The Regionalist Vision; The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National ldentity, 7975-7935; and Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories. Susan Grelock-Yusem, PhD, is an independent scholar trained in depth psychology, with an emphasis on community, liberation, and eco-psychologies. Her work centers around interconnection and encompasses regenerative food systems, the arts and conservation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Wanda M. Corn's book Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern (Prestel Publishing, 2017) explores how Georgia O'Keeffe lived her life steeped in modernism, bringing the same style she developed in her art to her dress, her homes, and her lifestyle. Richly illustrated with images of her art and views of the two homes she designed and furnished in New Mexico, the book also includes never before published photographs of O'Keeffe's clothes. The author has attributed some of the most exquisite of these garments to O'Keeffe, a skilled seamstress who understood fabric and design, and who has become an icon in today's fashion world as much for her personal style as for her art. As one of her friends stated, O'Keeffe “never allowed her life to be one thing and her painting another.” This fresh and carefully researched study brings O'Keeffe's style to life, illuminating how this beloved American artist purposefully proclaimed her modernity in the way she dressed and posed for photographers, from Alfred Stieglitz to Bruce Weber. This beautiful book accompanied the first museum exhibition to bring together photographs, clothes, and art to explore O'Keeffe's unified modernist aesthetic. WANDA M. CORN is Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor Emerita in Art History at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. Her publications include Grant Wood: The Regionalist Vision; The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National ldentity, 7975-7935; and Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories. Susan Grelock-Yusem, PhD, is an independent scholar trained in depth psychology, with an emphasis on community, liberation, and eco-psychologies. Her work centers around interconnection and encompasses regenerative food systems, the arts and conservation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Wanda M. Corn's book Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern (Prestel Publishing, 2017) explores how Georgia O'Keeffe lived her life steeped in modernism, bringing the same style she developed in her art to her dress, her homes, and her lifestyle. Richly illustrated with images of her art and views of the two homes she designed and furnished in New Mexico, the book also includes never before published photographs of O'Keeffe's clothes. The author has attributed some of the most exquisite of these garments to O'Keeffe, a skilled seamstress who understood fabric and design, and who has become an icon in today's fashion world as much for her personal style as for her art. As one of her friends stated, O'Keeffe “never allowed her life to be one thing and her painting another.” This fresh and carefully researched study brings O'Keeffe's style to life, illuminating how this beloved American artist purposefully proclaimed her modernity in the way she dressed and posed for photographers, from Alfred Stieglitz to Bruce Weber. This beautiful book accompanied the first museum exhibition to bring together photographs, clothes, and art to explore O'Keeffe's unified modernist aesthetic. WANDA M. CORN is Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor Emerita in Art History at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. Her publications include Grant Wood: The Regionalist Vision; The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National ldentity, 7975-7935; and Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories. Susan Grelock-Yusem, PhD, is an independent scholar trained in depth psychology, with an emphasis on community, liberation, and eco-psychologies. Her work centers around interconnection and encompasses regenerative food systems, the arts and conservation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/biography

Wanda M. Corn's book Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern (Prestel Publishing, 2017) explores how Georgia O'Keeffe lived her life steeped in modernism, bringing the same style she developed in her art to her dress, her homes, and her lifestyle. Richly illustrated with images of her art and views of the two homes she designed and furnished in New Mexico, the book also includes never before published photographs of O'Keeffe's clothes. The author has attributed some of the most exquisite of these garments to O'Keeffe, a skilled seamstress who understood fabric and design, and who has become an icon in today's fashion world as much for her personal style as for her art. As one of her friends stated, O'Keeffe “never allowed her life to be one thing and her painting another.” This fresh and carefully researched study brings O'Keeffe's style to life, illuminating how this beloved American artist purposefully proclaimed her modernity in the way she dressed and posed for photographers, from Alfred Stieglitz to Bruce Weber. This beautiful book accompanied the first museum exhibition to bring together photographs, clothes, and art to explore O'Keeffe's unified modernist aesthetic. WANDA M. CORN is Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor Emerita in Art History at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. Her publications include Grant Wood: The Regionalist Vision; The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National ldentity, 7975-7935; and Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories. Susan Grelock-Yusem, PhD, is an independent scholar trained in depth psychology, with an emphasis on community, liberation, and eco-psychologies. Her work centers around interconnection and encompasses regenerative food systems, the arts and conservation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

Wanda M. Corn's book Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern (Prestel Publishing, 2017) explores how Georgia O'Keeffe lived her life steeped in modernism, bringing the same style she developed in her art to her dress, her homes, and her lifestyle. Richly illustrated with images of her art and views of the two homes she designed and furnished in New Mexico, the book also includes never before published photographs of O'Keeffe's clothes. The author has attributed some of the most exquisite of these garments to O'Keeffe, a skilled seamstress who understood fabric and design, and who has become an icon in today's fashion world as much for her personal style as for her art. As one of her friends stated, O'Keeffe “never allowed her life to be one thing and her painting another.” This fresh and carefully researched study brings O'Keeffe's style to life, illuminating how this beloved American artist purposefully proclaimed her modernity in the way she dressed and posed for photographers, from Alfred Stieglitz to Bruce Weber. This beautiful book accompanied the first museum exhibition to bring together photographs, clothes, and art to explore O'Keeffe's unified modernist aesthetic. WANDA M. CORN is Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor Emerita in Art History at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. Her publications include Grant Wood: The Regionalist Vision; The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National ldentity, 7975-7935; and Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories. Susan Grelock-Yusem, PhD, is an independent scholar trained in depth psychology, with an emphasis on community, liberation, and eco-psychologies. Her work centers around interconnection and encompasses regenerative food systems, the arts and conservation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/art

Wanda M. Corn's book Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern (Prestel Publishing, 2017) explores how Georgia O'Keeffe lived her life steeped in modernism, bringing the same style she developed in her art to her dress, her homes, and her lifestyle. Richly illustrated with images of her art and views of the two homes she designed and furnished in New Mexico, the book also includes never before published photographs of O'Keeffe's clothes. The author has attributed some of the most exquisite of these garments to O'Keeffe, a skilled seamstress who understood fabric and design, and who has become an icon in today's fashion world as much for her personal style as for her art. As one of her friends stated, O'Keeffe “never allowed her life to be one thing and her painting another.” This fresh and carefully researched study brings O'Keeffe's style to life, illuminating how this beloved American artist purposefully proclaimed her modernity in the way she dressed and posed for photographers, from Alfred Stieglitz to Bruce Weber. This beautiful book accompanied the first museum exhibition to bring together photographs, clothes, and art to explore O'Keeffe's unified modernist aesthetic. WANDA M. CORN is Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor Emerita in Art History at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. Her publications include Grant Wood: The Regionalist Vision; The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National ldentity, 7975-7935; and Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories. Susan Grelock-Yusem, PhD, is an independent scholar trained in depth psychology, with an emphasis on community, liberation, and eco-psychologies. Her work centers around interconnection and encompasses regenerative food systems, the arts and conservation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wanda M. Corn's book Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern (Prestel Publishing, 2017) explores how Georgia O'Keeffe lived her life steeped in modernism, bringing the same style she developed in her art to her dress, her homes, and her lifestyle. Richly illustrated with images of her art and views of the two homes she designed and furnished in New Mexico, the book also includes never before published photographs of O'Keeffe's clothes. The author has attributed some of the most exquisite of these garments to O'Keeffe, a skilled seamstress who understood fabric and design, and who has become an icon in today's fashion world as much for her personal style as for her art. As one of her friends stated, O'Keeffe “never allowed her life to be one thing and her painting another.” This fresh and carefully researched study brings O'Keeffe's style to life, illuminating how this beloved American artist purposefully proclaimed her modernity in the way she dressed and posed for photographers, from Alfred Stieglitz to Bruce Weber. This beautiful book accompanied the first museum exhibition to bring together photographs, clothes, and art to explore O'Keeffe's unified modernist aesthetic. WANDA M. CORN is Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor Emerita in Art History at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. Her publications include Grant Wood: The Regionalist Vision; The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National ldentity, 7975-7935; and Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories. Susan Grelock-Yusem, PhD, is an independent scholar trained in depth psychology, with an emphasis on community, liberation, and eco-psychologies. Her work centers around interconnection and encompasses regenerative food systems, the arts and conservation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-west

Space War heralds the dawn of the video game Sanders and Associates patents the game console Pacman finally kills KCMunchkin These stories and many more on this episode of the VGNRTM This episode we will look back at the biggest stories in and around the video game industry in April 1982. As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and those are of course always a bit behind the actual events. Wouter, aka Wiedo, is our cohost. You can find his awesome twitter feed here: https://twitter.com/wiedo Get us on your mobile device: Android: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly92aWRlb2dhbWVuZXdzcm9vbXRpbWVtYWNoaW5lLmxpYnN5bi5jb20vcnNz iOS: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/video-game-newsroom-time-machine And if you like what we are doing here at the podcast, don't forget to like us on your podcasting app of choice, YouTube, and/or support us on patreon! https://www.patreon.com/VGNRTM Send comments on twitter @videogamenewsr2 Or Instagram https://www.instagram.com/vgnrtm Or videogamenewsroomtimemachine@gmail.com Links: 7 Minutes in Heaven: 3D Monster Maze Video Version: https://www.patreon.com/posts/66504463 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_Monster_Maze https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81#/media/File:Sinclair-ZX81.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81#/media/File:Sinclair_ZX81_Setup_PhotoManipped.jpg Corrections: March 1982 Ep - https://www.patreon.com/posts/64415756 Tom Dusenberry Interview - https://www.patreon.com/posts/42807419 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=166YVv8ZV4E https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckner_%26_Garcia https://ballyalley.com/pics/keypad_overlays/keypad_overlays.html https://www.mobygames.com/game/atari-st/star-raiders/screenshots 1932 Pinball ruled to be gambling https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/380431067/ https://www.newspapers.com/clip/74171177/pinball-ordinance-not-yet-implemented/ 1952 Anti-Pinball law deemed illegal https://www.nytimes.com/1952/04/11/archives/pinball-law-illegal-hoboken-magistrate-rules-city-ordinance.html?searchResultPosition=1 IBM sees bright future in electronics https://www.nytimes.com/1952/04/30/archives/watson-reports-i-b-m-expansion-business-machines-chairman-tells.html?searchResultPosition=1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_701 https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/history/year_1952.html https://videogamehistorian.wordpress.com/tag/ibm-709/ 1962 Spacewar released at MIT https://www.howtogeek.com/794165/video-games-turn-60-how-spacewar-launched-a-revolution/ http://tech.mit.edu/V82/PDF/V82-N11.pdf Business managers play IBM business sim https://www.newspapers.com/clip/12413174/the-observer/ https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81965512/smu-banking-management-game/ 1972 Sanders and associates get game console patents https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99426904/magnavox-odyssey-patent-announcement/ https://www.nytimes.com/1972/04/29/archives/dc10-patent-is-set-mcdonnell-douglas-stresses-arrangement-of-3.html?searchResultPosition=14 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_H._Baer https://youtu.be/kDAKxjG7VaI Cartrivision introduces movie rentals to the world https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Poptronics/70s/1972/Pop-1972-04.pdf pg. 25 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWZHh5oVjB0 1982 Make your own maze is the new arcade craze https://archive.org/details/Atari_Coin_Connection_Volume_6_Number_3_April-May_1982 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dig_Dug https://www.mobygames.com/game/pit Atari releases promo video to fight local laws Replay April 1982 pg. 9 https://archive.org/details/Atari_Coin_Connection_Volume_6_Number_3_April-May_1982 Pizza Time Theater fails to impress Wall Street https://www.nytimes.com/1982/04/05/business/market-place-pizza-time-unproven-idea.html?searchResultPosition=7 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_E._Cheese Willy's Wonderland - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8114980/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_8 Court rules that speed-up and conversion kits are illegal Replay April 1982 pg. 9 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0013442/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 Atari, finally, beats KC Munchkin Games People Pay Early April 1982 pg. 6 Replay April 1982 pg. 25 Play Meter April 15, 1982 pg. 15 Play Meter April 1, 1982 pg. 14 Atari profits surge despite higher tax rate https://www.nytimes.com/1982/04/14/business/company-earnings-warner-up-57.4-in-quarter.html?searchResultPosition=3 https://www.nytimes.com/1982/04/14/business/business-digest-wednesday-april-14-1982-the-economy.html?searchResultPosition=10 Atari releases home computer ports of Pacman and Centipede https://archive.org/details/kilobaudmagazine-1982-04/page/n199/mode/2up https://www.mobygames.com/game/atari-8-bit/pac-man/screenshots https://www.mobygames.com/game/atari-8-bit/centipede_/screenshots Atari 5200 won't be backward compatible https://www.newspapers.com/clip/62351753/atari-5200-notice-of-no-backwards/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_5200 Sega to distribute Colecovision in Japan Replay April 1982 pg. 40 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ColecoVision https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SG-1000 CBS gets into games https://www.nytimes.com/1982/04/21/business/cbs-to-market-bally-games.html?searchResultPosition=2 https://www.mobygames.com/company/cbs-software https://www.nytimes.com/1982/04/23/business/cbs-unit-offers-58-million-for-maker-of-rubik-s-cube.html?searchResultPosition=5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubik%27s_Cube https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideal_Toy_Company Quaker Oats gets into games too https://www.nytimes.com/1982/04/23/business/cbs-unit-offers-58-million-for-maker-of-rubik-s-cube.html?searchResultPosition=5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaker_Oats_Company#Quaker_Oats_Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Games Flat panels are coming our way https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1982-04-rescan/page/n429/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid-crystal_display Sinclair announces flat screen computer... and electric car https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1982-04-rescan/page/n427/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV80 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_C5 Sinclair claims volume victory https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing-1982-04-a/page/n7/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX80 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_VIC-20 ZX82 is near! https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1982-04-23/page/n4/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum BBC goes all in on computer literacy https://archive.org/details/your-computer-magazine-1982-04/page/n16/mode/1up The BBC wants to answer your computer inquiries https://archive.org/details/your-computer-magazine-1982-04/page/n16/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC Micro Men - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXBxV6-zamM&t=65s Hyperlink gaming comes to UK TVs https://archive.org/details/Computer_Video_Games_Issue_006_1982-04_EMAP_Publishing_GB/page/n24/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prestel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel Buy plotting paper to make your zx81 art dreams a reality! https://archive.org/details/Computer_Video_Games_Issue_006_1982-04_EMAP_Publishing_GB/page/n49/mode/1up Sinclair User launches https://archive.org/details/sinclair-user-magazine-001 Antic magazine debuts https://archive.org/details/1982-04-anticmagazine 16 bit revolution is coming https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing-1982-04-a/page/n7/mode/1up Video Disc gaming not dead yet... https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing-1982-04-a/page/n7/mode/1up Zork Users Group announced https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing-1982-04-a/page/n248/mode/1up https://www.filfre.net/2012/07/the-zork-users-group/ Michael Dornbrook Part 1 - https://www.patreon.com/posts/44335732 Recommended Links: The History of How We Play: https://thehistoryofhowweplay.wordpress.com/ Gaming Alexandria: https://www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/ They Create Worlds: https://tcwpodcast.podbean.com/ Digital Antiquarian: https://www.filfre.net/ The Arcade Blogger: https://arcadeblogger.com/ Retro Asylum: http://retroasylum.com/category/all-posts/ Retro Game Squad: http://retrogamesquad.libsyn.com/ Playthrough Podcast: https://playthroughpod.com/ Retromags.com: https://www.retromags.com/ Sound Effects by Ethan Johnson of History of How We Play.

In this episode, Gem Fletcher chats to photographer and director Campbell Addy. They come together to discuss Cambell's first monograph Feeling Seen published by Prestel. Much has happened since the pair recorded the first episode back in 2018. This is a truly special episode that speaks to what it means to be a young artist, how to navigate fashion and advertising and not lose yourself, what it means to meet the people who helped form you as an artist and how community shapes everything. Campbell has worked with editorial outlets Vogue, Financial Times, Dazed, Luncheon Magazine, Double Magazine, Wall Street Journal Magazine, Rolling Stone Magazine, and Garage Magazine. His work has been exhibited internationally including at the world-renowned Somerset House. Campbell is also the founder of Nii Journal, a biannual arts and culture publication, and of Nii Agency, a modelling and casting agency dedicated to representing and celebrating diversity. In this conversation, we discuss Campbell's journey since the first episode, what he has discovered about himself and making work along the way touching upon community, process, creative practice and the future. Check out my first conversation with Campbell on episode 4 here. Follow Campbell on Instagram @campbelladdy - Follow Gem @gemfletcher on Instagram. If you've enjoyed this episode, PLEASE leave us your feedback and maybe five stars if we're worthy in the Apple Podcast store. Thank you for listening to The Messy Truth. We will be back very soon. For all requests, please email hello@gemfletcher.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ana chats to Camila about Prestel, a nationwide information network developed by the UK Post Office. The videotex system was developed during the 1970s and for a brief time, the UK was at the forefront of intending to migrate its society online. However, the Conservative's acts halted the development by privatising Telecommunication in 1979 and 1981 by Thatcher. The girls discuss policy loopholes, Prestel's neglect in correlation to the UK's political failures, as well as its significant impact in the global technical blossoming of online communication.Follow us on Twitter @OurFriendComp And Instagram @ourfriendthecomputerMain research for the episode was done by Ana who also edited.Music by Nelson Guay (SoundCloud: fluxlinkages)References:- “Prestel: The British Internet That Never Was”, Tom Lean, History Today, 2016, - https://www.historytoday.com/history-matters/prestel-british-internet-never-was

Carla erzählt in dieser Episode von ihren allerschönsten Vögelbüchern. Dabei sind Werke, die durch den Jahreskreis führen, zum Rätseln animieren oder künstlerisch herausragend gestaltet sind. Manche davon sind zu „100 % nachhaltig“, andere wiederum wegen den eingebauten Soundelementen das Gegenteil davon. „189“ zeigt, wie ein Bilderbuch interessante historische Begebenheiten vermitteln kann: Es geht um Kanarienvögel, die Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts im Harz wichtig für den Bergbau waren. Aus Deutschland wurden sie in verschiedene Länder verschickt. Dieter Böge erzählt von der Reise eines „Harzer Rollers“ bis nach New York. Elsa Klever hat sie ausdrucksstark und aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven illustriert.Zu Gast beim Sprachi-Interview die Linzer Illustratorin und Vogelfreundin Silke Müller. Sie erklärt, wie das mit der jährlichen Vogelzählung in Parks und Gärten, bei der alle mitmachen können und sollen, funktioniert und hat Tipps für Nachwuchsornitholog_innen. Fein illustrierte Vögelprodukte gibt es in Silkes Onlineshop (mit dem Code KALENDER2022 auch noch um 20 % weniger).Leseratte Ro wollte den Kinderroman „Kali kann Kanari“ von Michael Roher zuerst eigentlich nicht lesen, war dann aber sehr positiv überrascht.Bücher zum ThemaAnne Crausaz: Die Vögel auf dem Apfelbaum. Aus dem Französischen. 112 Seiten, ab 6 Jahren, 23 Euro. Jacoby&Stuart 2015.Robert Hunter: Klänge der Natur. Welt der Vögel. Aus dem Englischen von Birgit Franz. 24 Seiten, ab 7 Jahren, 25 Euro. Prestel 2019. Vögel. Entdecken, Verstehen, Mitmachen. Aus dem Niederländischen von Birgit van der Avoort. 72 Seiten, ab 5 Jahren, 17 Euro. Bohem 2020.Katrin Wiehle: Mein kleines Vogelbuch. 16 Seiten, ab 2 Jahren, 19 Euro. Beltz&Gelberg 2018.Bernard Duisit: Sechs kleine Vögelchen. 16 Seiten, ab 3 Jahren, 17 Euro. Kleine Gestalten 2019.Marion Billet: Hörst du die Vögel? 18 Seiten, ab 18 Monaten, 11 Euro. Fischer Sauerländer 2015.Dieter Böge: 189. Illustriert von Elsa Klever. 48 Seiten, ab 6 Jahren, 17 Euro. Aladin 2020.Leseratte Ro empfiehltMichael Roher: Kali kann Kanari. 136 Seiten, 16 Euro, ab 8 Jahren. Jungbrunnen 2021

Tegenwoordig is het heel makkelijk om een kopietje uit de printer te halen, maar als je vroeger een reproductie nodig had dan werd die met de hand gemaakt. De innovaties die in de 18de eeuw door Maria Catharine Prestel en haar man werden doorgevoerd in kleurenprenten, vormen nog steeds de basis voor dat kleurenkopietje uit de printer. Presentator Janine Abbring spreekt met specialist 18de en 19de-eeuwse prentkunst Manon van der Mullen over het werk en leven van Maria Prestel, aan de hand van een mooi voorbeeld uit de collectie van het Rijksmuseum. Voor meer informatie, ga naar: rijksmuseum.nl/podcastDe podcastserie In het Rijksmuseum is powered by ING.

ie Runde heute in der Glockenbachbuchhandlung Pamela Scholz – Buchhändlerin Steffi Sack – Nur Lesen ist schöner Arndt Stroscher – AstroLibrium und der Münchner Prestel Verlag, vertreten durch Pia Werner – Presse und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit Claudia Stäuble – Programmleiterin Wir möchten über die Besonderheiten von Bildbänden in der heutigen Zeit sprechen, über das Wagnis solche Bücher zu verlegen, über die Risiken für den Buchhandel, sie auf Büchertischen zu präsentieren und über vieles mehr rund um diese besondere Bücherwelt. Dann werden wir zwei Bildbände aus dem Prestel Verlag vorstellen, die es uns besonders angetan haben. „Mountain Girls“ und „AVUS 100 – Ein rasantes Jahrhundert“. Unterschiedlicher können Bücher und Zielgruppen kaum sein. Anschließend lassen wir uns auf ein Blinddate mit Bildband ein. Die beiden Verlagsdamen haben ein Buch dabei, das wir erst bei der Aufnahme des Podcasts sehen werden. Es wird spannend, ob sie uns auch hier begeistern können…. Herzlich willkommen zu unserem Dialog. … Last but not least: Die GlockenbachWelle goes Buchmesse. Alle Informationen zu unserem Messeauftritt vom 20. Bis 24. Oktober am Bayernstand von XPLR-Media in Bavaria, in Kooperation mit dem Börsenverein des Buchhandels, Landesverband Bayern und der Bayerischen Staatskanzlei erfahren Sie auf unseren Seiten. Wir sehen uns in Halle 3.1 Stand D 11. Folgen Sie dem Link unter dem Podcast zur Projektseite der GlockenbachWelle und allen Hintergründen zur aktuellen Sendung Und hier geht es ganz exklusiv für unsere Hörer um Blinddate-Bildband aus dem Hause Prestel Verlag

To create a “collective portrait” of any set of people is difficult, but to do so with twenty-five world-renown women artists is a monumental challenge―one that our guests have undertaken and, based on their wonderful book, Portrait of an Artist: Conversations with Trailblazing Creative Women, have accomplished. Equally as impressive is that the book's author, Hugo Huerta Marin, weaved a personal narrative into this series of interviews and photographs he made of artists he admired, such as Yoko Ono, Cate Blanchett, Inez Van Lamsweerde, and Orlan.   On today's episode of the B&H Photography Podcast, we speak with Marin about this seven-year project and we also welcome the book's editor, Anna Godfrey, of Prestel Publishing. The two discuss the selection of subjects, interview techniques, and innovative book design. We also discuss the Polaroid portraits Marin made for the book and the role photography plays in the work of several of the artists profiled. Join us for this insightful conversation on the influence of groundbreaking women artists and on the persistence and collaboration needed to build this collective portrait. If you are in New York on October 28, 2021, Marina Abramović and Hugo Huerta Marin will host an intimate conversation about creativity, identity, success, and legacy at the global launch of Portrait of an Artist: Conversations with Trailblazing Creative Women, at Fotografiska New York. Tickets are available here. Guests: Hugo Huerta Marin and Anna Godfrey Photograph: FKA twigs © Hugo Huerta Marin https://www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/podcasts

Episode No. 517 features author Tyler Green with curator and art historian Elizabeth Kornhauser; and artist Lisa Corinne Davis. Tyler Green is the author of "Emerson's Nature and the Artists," which features a new appraisal of Ralph Waldo Emerson's classic text, new research that reveals how it was informed by Emerson's engagement with American art, and critical analysis of how the ideas Emerson offered in "Nature" informed American art for 100 years after it was published. Green is (usually) the producer/host of The Modern Art Notes Podcast. Green is interviewed by Elizabeth Kornhauser, a curator in the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Along with Tim Barringer, Kornhauser curated "Thomas Cole's Journey: Atlantic Crossings" at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and London's National Gallery, which helped motivate his new book. Kornhauser's "Jules Tavernier and the Elem Pomo," which she co-curated with Shannon Vittoria, is on view now at the Met. She discussed it on Episode No. 515 of The MAN Podcast. "Emerson's Nature and the Artists" was published by Prestel. Indiebound and Amazon offer it for $25. For a personalized, signed copy, contact the author. On the second segment, Lisa Corinne Davis discusses her work on the occasion of "Point of Departure: Abstraction 1958–Present" at the Sheldon Museum of Art at the University of Nebraska. The exhibition, drawn primarily from the museum's collection, surveys two-dimensional abstraction and is on view through December 23. Davis' work is in the collection of museums such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Among her many awards are a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation award.

Prestel 2021 | 40 S. | 16,- € | ab 6 J. | Ob brave Zöpfe, frecher Kurzhaarschnitt oder wilde Locken, ob blonde, schwarze, rote Haare - an manchen Tagen finden wir unsere Frisur richtig doof. Das ist längst nicht nur ein Problem unserer Zeit. Seit der Steinzeit legen Menschen Wert auf einen ordentlichen Kopfschmuck. Hier gibt's allerhand Wissenswertes, Lustiges und Erstaunliches über unsere Haare, so mitreißend erzählt, dass die Lauschinsel-Buch-Checker begeistert sind. | von Erin, 9 J. und Imran, 10 J.

Susan L. Aberth is the Edith C. Blum Professor of the Art History and Visual Culture Program at Bard College. She received her M.A. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and her Ph.D. from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. In addition to her 2004 book Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art (Lund Humphries), forthcoming is  Leonora Carrington: The Tarot (Fulgur Press, 2020) co-authored with Mexican curator Tere Arcq.  She has contributed to Surrealism and Magic, Guggenheim Venice (2021); Seeking the Marvelous: Ithell Colquhoun, British Women and Surrealism (Fulgur Press, 2021), Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist (Phoenix Art Museum, 2019), Juanita Guccione: Otherwhere (Napa Valley Museum, 2019), Surrealism, Occultism and Politics: In Search of the Marvelous (Routledge Press, 2018), Leonora Carrington: Cuentos Magicos (Museo de Arte Moderno & INBA, Mexico City, 2018), Unpacking: The Marciano Collection (Delmonico Books, Prestel, 2017), and Leonora Carrington and the International Avant-Garde (Manchester University Press, 2017), as well as to Abraxas: International Journal of Esoteric Studies, Black Mirror, and Journal of Surrealism of the Americas. A painting (Necromancer) using The Magician tarot imagery, oil on canvas

Elinor Carucci and I talk about her book Midlife, an autobiographical exploration of life, ageing, mortality, and the challenges women face as they get older to not become invisible. We talk about the hard work and stresses involved with making personal and commercial work, raising children, and teaching. Elinor talks about her mentors, and the ways in which she has changed as an educator and how she learns from her students.   http://www.elinorcarucci.com   Born 1971 in Jerusalem, Israel, Elinor Carucci graduated in 1995 from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design with a degree in photography, and moved to New York that same year. In a relatively short amount of time, her work has been included in an impressive amount of solo and group exhibitions worldwide, solo shows include Edwynn Houk gallery, Fifty One Fine Art Gallery, James Hyman and Gagosian Gallery, London among others and group show include The Museum of Modern Art New York and The Photographers' Gallery, London.   Her photographs are included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art New York, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Houston Museum of Fine Art, among others and her work appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Details, New York Magazine, W, Aperture, ARTnews and many more publications.   She was awarded the International Center of Photography Infinity Award for Young Photographer in 2001, The Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002 and NYFA in 2010. Carucci has published two monographs to date, Closer, Chronicle Books 2002 and Diary of a dancer, SteidlMack 2005 and MOTHER, Prestel 2013. In fall of 2019 Monacelli Press published her fourth monograph, Midlife.   Carucci teaches at the graduate program of Photography and Related Media at School of Visual Arts and is represented by Edwynn Houk Gallery.

Susan L. Aberth is the Edith C. Blum Professor of the Art History and Visual Culture Program at Bard College, and a world-renowned expert on occult art and surrealism. Her 2004 book, Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art (Lund Humphries) helped introduce Carrington’s magical work to the masses. She also recently co-authored The Tarot of Leonora Carrington (Fulgur Press, 2020) with Mexican curator Tere Arcq, which is an analysis of Carrington’s tarot paintings and original major arcana deck.Susan has also contributed to Surrealism and Magic, Guggenheim Venice (2021); Not Without My Ghosts (2020, Traveling exhibition in England); Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist (Phoenix Art Museum, 2019), Juanita Guccione: Otherwhere (Napa Valley Museum, 2019), Surrealism, Occultism and Politics: In Search of the Marvelous (Routledge Press, 2018), Leonora Carrington: Cuentos Magicos (Museo de Arte Moderno & INBA, Mexico City, 2018), Unpacking: The Marciano Collection (Delmonico Books, Prestel, 2017), and Leonora Carrington and the International Avant-Garde (Manchester University Press, 2017), as well as to Abraxas: International Journal of Esoteric Studies, Black Mirror, and Journal of Surrealism and the Americas. She received her B.A. from UCLA, M.A. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and her Ph.D. from the Graduate Center, City University of New York.On this episode, Susan discusses her groundbreaking scholarship on Leonora Carrington’s occult art oeuvre, the newly discovered Carrington Tarot, and how bewitching women change the world. Pam also speaks about gratitude magic, and answers a listener question about how to give thanks for a priceless gift.Our sponsors for this episode are Luna Lux Botanicals, BetterHelp, Clarissa Eck Ceramics, Mithras Candle, Zouz Incense

 I denne episoden skal vi stanse på et høydedrag og se oss omkring på 18- og 19-hundretallet. Vi møter en prestelærer som var vekkelsespredikant. Vi møter også lekpredikanter som forandret hele bygdelag, blant annet Paul Gerhard Sand, Jens Marius Giverholt – har du hørt om disse fra før? Episode 21 finner du her:… 

 I denne episoden skal vi stanse på et høydedrag og se oss omkring på 18- og 19-hundretallet. Vi møter en prestelærer som var vekkelsespredikant. Vi møter også lekpredikanter som forandret hele bygdelag, blant annet Paul Gerhard Sand, Jens Marius Giverholt – har du hørt om disse fra før? Episode 21 finner du… 

Natürlich stimmen die Klischees, die man sich über Bayern erzählt. Und Ludwig Ganghofer hat völlig recht, wenn er einem 1142 verstorbenen Propst von Berchtesgaden den Satz in den Mund legt: „Herr, wen Du lieb hast, den lässest du fallen in dieses Land“. Trotzdem ist der Ausspruch „Mia san mia“ schon immer ein ausgemachter Schmarrn. Denn in Wirklichkeit weiß niemand, wer die Bayern tatsächlich sind und woher sie kommen. Aus Bayern jedenfalls nicht. Selbst die Muttergottes, seit 1916 offizielle Patronin des Landes, ist eine „Zuagroaste“, nämlich eine Hausfrau aus Galiläa. Dass Bayern sehr viel bunter und widersprüchlicher ist, als man gemeinhin denkt, und dass das Land in der Mitte Europas seine Identität seit Jahrhunderten daraus schöpft, dass es Menschen, Kulturtechniken und Kulturtraditionen aus anderen Weltgegenden höchst erfolgreich integriert und vereinnahmt – das erzählt Klaus Reichold auf ebenso amüsante wie kenntnisreiche Weise. … Reichold M.A., gebürtiger Münchner, ist Kulturhistoriker, Mitbegründer der Histonauten und Programmleiter der Akademie für Kulturgeschichte “bavaricum@histonauten”. Er hat kulturhistorische Dokumentationen für das “Bayerische Fernsehen” gedreht, Hörfunk-Features geschrieben und bei Verlagen wie “Hoffmann und Campe”, “Prestel” und “Pustet” publiziert. Immer wieder beschäftigt er sich mit der Geschichte der Wittelsbacher und insbesondere mit König Ludwig II. Seine Publikation “Keinen Kuß mehr! Reinheit! Königtum!” gilt als Standardwerk.

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In her glittering career, Sara Scott-Rivers worked extensively with both Viewdata and teletext. Following designer-editor roles with Prestel in the 1980s, she joined Teletext Ltd prior to its launch in 1993. However, she is perhaps best known for her unique fashion sensibilities, which might be described as ‘teletext goth geek-chic’. Bonus: This interview also includes […]

Als Kind will er Schiffskapitän werden. Als König fördert er die moderne Luftfahrt. In der Nähe von Neuschwanstein plant er einen Chinesischen Sommerpalast. Dass er lange überlegt, Bayern zu verkaufen und auszuwandern, geht aus Unterlagen hervor, die Klaus Reichold und Thomas Endl im Geheimen Hausarchiv der Wittelsbacher aufgestöbert haben. Zur Debatte standen u.a. Afghanistan, Ägypten – und Rügen. Die Autoren portraitieren Ludwig II. als Kind des 19. Jahrhunderts, der eine rasante gesellschaftliche, technische und wirtschaftliche Entwicklung erlebt, aber lieber in die Gegenwelten des Historismus und des Orientalismus flüchtet. Mit über 90 Abbildungen und vielen Verweisen zu digitalisierten Quellen und weiterführenden Informationen. edition tingeltangel (www.edition-tingeltangel.de) Zum 175. Geburtstag des Märchenkönigs in zweiter Auflage – ein Feuerwerk erstaunlicher und sinnlicher Details aus dem Leben Ludwigs II. Als Kind will er Schiffskapitän werden. Als König fördert er die moderne Luftfahrt. In der Nähe von Neuschwanstein plant er einen Chinesischen Sommerpalast. Dass er lange überlegt, Bayern zu verkaufen und auszuwandern, geht aus Unterlagen hervor, die Klaus Reichold und Thomas Endl im Geheimen Hausarchiv der Wittelsbacher aufgestöbert haben. Zur Debatte standen u.a. Afghanistan, Ägypten – und Rügen. Die Autoren portraitieren Ludwig II. als Kind des 19. Jahrhunderts, der eine rasante gesellschaftliche, technische und wirtschaftliche Entwicklung erlebt, aber lieber in die Gegenwelten des Historismus und des Orientalismus flüchtet. Er träumt von absolutistischer Allmacht und erkennt seine eigene Ohnmacht. Er sieht sich als Fürst des Friedens und führt zwei blutige Kriege. Er verdammt die Moderne und bedient sich der neuesten Technik. Er vergöttert tapfere Ritter und fürchtet den Gang zum Zahnarzt. Ludwig II. ist Schöpfer königlicher Traumwelten – und zugleich ihr einziger Bewohner. Am Ende erklärt man ihn für verrückt. Dabei wird Ludwig II. schon zu Lebzeiten wie ein Popstar verehrt. Mit seinem Tod wird er zum Mythos. Mit über 90 Abbildungen und vielen Verweisen zu digitalisierten Quellen und weiterführenden Informationen. Klaus Reichold, gebürtiger Münchner, ist Kulturhistoriker und Programmleiter der Akademie für Kulturgeschichte bavaricum@histonauten. Er hat Dokumentationen für das Bayerische Fernsehen gedreht, Hörfunk-Features geschrieben und bei Verlagen wie Hoffmann und Campe, Prestel und Pustet publiziert. Seine Publikation Keinen Kuß mehr! Reinheit! Königtum! gilt als Standardwerk. In Vorträgen und Exkursionen beschäftigt er sich immer wieder mit der Geschichte der Wittelsbacher und insbesondere mit König Ludwig II. Thomas Endl, drehte gemeinsam mit Klaus Reichold für das Bayerische Fernsehen Dokumentationen, unter anderem ein Porträt über Ludwig I., den Großvater Ludwigs II. Er schrieb viele Kinderbücher, darunter die Neuschwanstein-Geschichte Niklas Märchenkönig. Und seine Mutter gehörte als Kind zu denjenigen, die bei Festveranstaltungen auf Herrenchiemsee die Kerzen im Spiegelsaal entzünden durften. Die Moderation hat Uwe Kullnick

The world has changed. In the midst of the Black Lives Matter movement, Gris speaks to Tyler Mitchell, a 25-year-old photographer, filmmaker and political artist who shot to fame when he photographed Beyonce for the September issue of American Vogue in 2018. In his work, Tyler explores what freedom means for black Americans, and all the ways in which it is denied. Gris first spoke to Tyler in early May - three weeks before police killed George Floyd - and they talked again just before this episode was published.This is our finale for Season Two! Thank you for an incredible run. Gris is about to go on maternity leave, but Lilah will be back for Season Three in a few months’ time. In the meantime, you can still always find us talking about culture on Twitter @FTCultureCall or on Instagram at @lilahrap and @griseldamurraybrown, and you can email us at culturecall@ft.com.Links and notes from the episode:–Here is our massive list of listener recommendations for what to watch on streaming platforms. Thanks to all who shared their thoughts! There’s no paywall on this, so you can share it freely: https://www.ft.com/content/87f1f7fe-af30-11ea-a4b6-31f1eedf762e–If you want free access to explore FT journalism for 30 days, sign up to the Coronavirus Business Update newsletter using this special link: https://www.ft.com/newsletter-signup/coronavirus?segmentId=0d92d58c-2c7d-178e-6aa8-81529dd53b1b–White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo (You can also listen to an interview with Robin here: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/come-through/articles/5-robin-diangelo)–Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge –The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett –I May Destroy You by Michaela Coel (BBC iPlayer and HBO)–Here’s an excellent recent episode of our sister podcast, Behind the Money, on the history of police funding in America: https://www.ft.com/content/a6d56dd2-fd2c-4047-a502-c6c6d9dc3f90–Tyler Mitchell on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tylersphotos/?hl=en–Tyler’s new photo book I Can Make You Feel Good, published by Prestel on July 28: https://prestelpublishing.randomhouse.de/book/I-Can-Make-You-Feel-Good/Tyler-Mitchell/Prestel/e563080.rhd–Inside Tyler’s exhibition I Can Make You Feel Good: https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/12200/tyler-mitchell-photographer-i-can-make-you-feel-good-exhibition-new-york-2020–Photographers who Tyler Mitchell cites as inspirations: Ryan McGinley, Larry Clark, and Petra Collins (who he calls ‘the first internet phenomenon photographer on some level’)–Jeremy O Harris’s tweets on... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Patnáct let sbíral Adam Štěch materiály pro knihu, která měla teď vyjít. Historik architektury a designu připravil skoro tisícistránkovou publikaci Modern Architecture and Interiors (Moderní architektura a interiéry) pro prestižní nakladatelství umělecké literatury Prestel – a už to oznámily Financial Times a další média. Ale místo toho přišla globální epidemie – a kniha půjde na trh až za rok. Jaký to je pocit? „Je to taková poloviční výhra,“ říká Adam Štěch.

The Life Box Media Channel Radio Podcast Had The Pleasure To Sit Down With Author And Motivational Speaker Bonnie Prestel About Her New Book Nine 1/2 Months In Book Stores And On Amazon Now A Huge Thank You To Bonnie Prestel For Taking The Time To Follow Bonnie Prestel Or By Her Book Or To Book Her For Your Event Bonnie Prestel's Book Nine 1/2 Months Is Also Available On Amazon Books https://www.facebook.com/bonnie.prestel https://www.instagram.com/bonnieprestel/ https://twitter.com/writerbonn --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Guest speaker and author Bonnie Prestel talks about her choice to keep her baby and walk out on an abortion.

On a fun Friday edition of the Joel Natalie Show, we highlighted authors from our community. Our friend Andy Kerr talked about his book A Story and a Point, along with his co-author Paul Macosko. We also welcomed Darryl Haemer to chat about his book Changing Change: For Those Who Prefer To "Just Keep Things the Same." Finally, on the phone we heard from Bonnie Prestel, the wife of an Erie ex-pat and author of the novel Nine ½ Months.

In episode 67 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed starting Part 2 of a two or maybe three part series reflecting upon the history, funding, distribution, cost, creation, expectation, audience and future for photo books. This week he looks at boutique publishers and the photo book as artefact. He also announces the launch of the A Photographic Life Podcast Plus initiative at www.patreon.com/aphotographiclifepodcast Plus this week photographer Paul Russell takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in length in which he answer's the question ‘What Does Photography Mean to You?' If you have enjoyed this podcast why not check out our A Photographic Life Podcast Plus. Created as a learning resource that places the power of learning into the hands of the learner. To suggest where you can go, what you can read, who you can discover and what you can question to further your own knowledge, experience and enjoyment of photography. It will be inspiring, informative and enjoyable! You can find out here: www.patreon.com/aphotographiclifepodcast Paul Russell was born in London in 1966, and grew-up on the Sussex coast in the South of England and now lives in the coastal town of Weymouth. He studied animal behaviour at Nottingham University, which led to an interest in studying human behaviour and documenting these behaviours through photography. Paul's work has been collected by the Museum of London, and he was one of forty-six international photographers profiled in Thames & Hudson's landmark book, Street Photography Now. His work featured in the 2019 book, Street Photography – A History in 100 Iconic Images by David Gibson published by Prestel and has appeared in publications such as De Zeit, The Guardian Weekend magazine, the Independent on Sunday, Digifoto Pro, AP and Neon magazine. Paul is a prolific user of Twitter (@paulrussell99 ) as a platform to share his images and wry view of the world. www.paulrussell.info Grant Scott is the founder/curator of United Nations of Photography, a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, a working photographer, and the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Focal Press 2014) and The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Focal Press 2015). His next book New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography will be published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2019. He is currently work on his next documentary film project Woke Up This Morning: The Rock n' Roll Thunder of Ray Lowry. His documentary film, Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay can now be seen at www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd47549knOU&t=3915s. © Grant Scott 2019

On Learning Unboxed, we like to share case studies of the projects and programs that are revolutionizing education; great new ideas that have already been tested, the lessons that we've learned along the way, and where there are opportunities for other communities to do similar things as they think about education. That’s why, today, we are excited to introduce you to Energy4Learning, a program that transforms school buildings into learning tools by leveraging real energy data to engage students in problem-based learning. Joining the show to teach us about this new program is Ryan Prestel and Kat Deaner. Ryan is the co-founder and CEO of JadeTrack, a cloud-based analytics platform powering some of the world’s most robust energy and sustainability programs. They empower stakeholders – and, for this program, students – to create impact by making complex energy usage data simple. Kat is PAST’s very own Director of School Design and Online Learning, and she leads all the efforts associated with school transformation projects, including Energy4Learning. To learn more, visit: (http://pastfoundation.org/) Resources: Learn more about Energy4Learning Check out (https://www.jadetrack.com/) JadeTrack on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/jadetrack  JadeTrack Twitter: https://twitter.com/jade_track Kat on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kat-deaner/ Download the Comprehensive Sustainability Tracking Handout Download the JadeTrack Product Sheet Learning Unboxed is produced in part by Crate Media Recorded by Eric French at (http://wosu.org/) in Columbus, Ohio

GUEST BIO: Dave is a computer programmer and was an original signatory and author of The Manifesto For Agile Software Development.  He has also co-authored several books, including “The Pragmatic Programmer”, and was a co-founder of the Pragmatic Bookshelf. EPISODE DESCRIPTION: Dave Thomas is Phil’s guest on today’s show. He is a well-known programmer who works in numerous programming languages, in particular, Elixir, Ruby and agility. Dave is one of the original signatories and author of The Manifesto for Agile Software Development. Over the years, Dave has published several other books and is a trainer. Currently, he is also an Adjunct Professor at the Southern Methodist University. KEY TAKEAWAYS: (0.45) – So, Dave, can you expand on that brief introduction and tell us a little bit more about yourself? Dave says that fundamentally he is a programmer. For the past 45 years he has enjoyed coding and has done it practically every day. Most of the other things, he does really just to make a living. For example, he published more books when things crashed in the early 2000s. Even then, he spent time writing the various bits of infrastructure, he just could not stay away from the code. (3.08) – Are you still involved in the pragmatic? Dave says that about 18 months ago, with Andy’s agreement, he stepped back a bit on the day-to-day stuff. He had other things he wanted to investigate and basically did not have enough time to do so. Right now, he is almost like a Victorian gentleman scientist exploring things on his own. But, he has spent about a year shuttling from one thing to another. He is now focused again. (4.21) – Phil asks Dave to share a unique IT career tip. We work in the fastest changing industry that ever existed, so you need to keep up. You can’t know everything, but you can look at what is coming up and pick a few things that are likely to make it. Then spend a bit of time learning and researching those. (5.20) – A lot of people say my employer does not give me time to do that. Dave’s response is that is not your employer’s job. It is your career - you need to invest in yourself. If you do not, you and your skills will slowly become irrelevant as new technology replaces what you are good at. (6.11) – Dave is asked to share his worst career moment and what he learned from that experience. After 45 years, Dave has understandably had quite a few bad career moments. At least, things that felt bad at the time. But, usually he learned a lot from those situations. So, in the end, many of those experiences turned out to be positive ones. When you are working in such a malleable format it is very easy to mess things up. However, with a bit of discipline and patience, it is also very easy to fix the problem. (7.29) – Phil asks Dave what his best career moment was. Dave explained that, like most people, he has a need to create. So, when he finds his “software expressing me” he gets a lift. A great example of this is the Prestel videotext system, from the 1970s. Dave was involved in writing a front end so that people could find flight availability and book them via travel agents. One day, Dave was walking down a High Street, looked in a travel agents window and saw his software running. Seeing that brought home the fact that what he was doing really was making a difference. (9.53) – Dave explained that whenever he publishes a book, he also goes to a bookstore to see it on the shelf. Seeing a physical manifestation of your work helps you to fully appreciate what you have achieved and is very fulfilling. (11.11) – So, Dave what excites you about the future of the IT industry and careers in IT in particular? For Dave the fact that in IT you are shaping the world, literally. You cannot do much, these days, without IT. We can do great things with IT, which is exciting. In the very near future our coding will become part of the fabric of life. Now we code things that mainly happen via a screen or browser. In the future, our work will become an ambient background to people’s lives. That is a phenomenal responsibility, but incredibly empowering. (13.31) – What first attracted you to a career in IT? When Dave did his A-levels he took them a year earlier, so had no work to do at school. Fortunately, he was not allowed to simply leave. Instead, his school sent him across the road to take the first-ever A-level UK programming classes. They were using Basic, with a teletype paper tape punch, but Dave was captivated by the work. He had planned to study math, instead he studies software at university and begun his IT career. (15.31) – What is the best career advice you were given? Dave’s first job was working for a startup. They were asked to produce a coupon compiler, by a client. The director of that company had quite a bit of technical understanding, but there were some important gaps in his knowledge. So, at some point in the meeting Dave said – “No, you’re wrong. That’s not right” blah, blah. There was a deathly silence. At which point his boss stepped in and moved things along. Afterward the meeting he apologized. But, his boss said “No it’s OK, you did the right thing, just not in the right way.” That incident stayed with him. It made Dave realize that we should not be saying yes all the time. Instead, we have to find a way of saying no without putting people’s backs up. (16.43) – If you were to start your IT career again, right now, what would you do? Dave replied “It depends”, but he would probably not go to college or university. Instead, he would look for a company that ran a good apprenticeship scheme and join. He would then spend 5 to 10 years flitting across different areas. At that point, he would reflect on those years and work out the thing that he enjoyed the most and work in that field. Phil agreed that was a good approach. People tend to forget that taking a job is not a lifetime commitment. In the early days, it is probably only an 18-month commitment. Nobody expects any more from you, so it makes sense to take advantage of that fact and move around until you find something you love doing. (19.15) – Phil asks Dave what he is currently focusing on for his career. Dave says “changing the world”, kind of. Right now, he has two main aims. Firstly, he wants to encapsulate and share what he has learned. He is on the board of a company that teaches genuine software skills to 8 to 14-year-olds. These days, coding literacy is as important as any foreign language. The other objective is to simplify software development. Things do not have to be anywhere near as complicated as they are now. Dave believes we can make software development far easier and is working on doing exactly that. (21.25) – What is the number one non-technical skill that has helped you the most in your IT career? Dave says that enjoying learning has helped him tremendously. Being able to move across industries and learn your client’s jobs, how they work and what their problems are all helps you to build software that solves the real problem, rather than just meeting the spec. (22.46) – Phil asks Dave to share a final piece of career advice. Dave says that you need to “remember to make it fun.” You need to look forward to going to work, at least most of the time. If you feel that way you will do a good job. BEST MOMENTS: (3.06) DAVE – “You just can't keep me away from the code.” (3.39) DAVE – “I've been almost like a Victorian gentlemen scientist for the last two years, just exploring stuff on my own.” (5.38) DAVE – “The most important tip is to invest in yourself. To keep yourself current, spend some time and a little bit of money on a personal level, just to make sure that you're still relevant.” (7.24) DAVE – “I honestly think it's an important thing to learn that if you break it, you can fix it.” (9.54) PHIL – “I think seeing what you produce in action is self-fulfilling, in some ways.” (13.07) DAVE – “The most exciting thing to look forward to is a future where we can really genuinely make the world better.” CONTACT DAVE THOMAS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/pragdave @pragdave LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-thomas-53aa1057/ Website: https://pragprog.com/

Lisa Beck works with a variety of mediums  and modes, including painting, sculpture and installation (often in combination), involving inner and outer space, landscape, reflection, and the paradoxical relationship of something and nothing. Since the 1980s, her work has been exhibited in the US and internationally in venues including Feature Inc. (NYC), Elizabeth Dee Gallery (NYC), Anton Kern Gallery (NYC),  Galerie Samy Abraham (Paris),  Circuit, (Lausanne), PS1 (Long Island City),  White Columns, (NYC),  MAMCO – Museé d’ Art moderne et contemporain (Geneva), and the New Britain Museum of American Art (New Britain, CT). In 2013, “Endless”,  a survey show of works from 1986-2012, was presented at the Fort du Brussin, a hors le murs exhibition by La Salle de Bains, in Lyon, France Lisa’s work has been included in publications including  Painting Abstraction: New Elements in Abstract Painting by Bob Nickas,(2009, Phaidon Press) and Are You Experienced? by Ken Johnson (2011, Prestel).  In 2015, The Middle of Everywhere, a monograph on her work, was published by Galerie Samy Abraham  and La Salle de Bains. Lisa was a recipient of the 2012-13 Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program Studio Residency in Brooklyn. Lisa Beck received a BFA from RISD. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Elements 8 ( Rising and Falling), 2017. Aluminum leaf, acrylic paint , oil paint, enamel paint on 2 canvases, each 48x36 in. Flare, 2012/16. Acrylic paint on wall, mylar in 6panel, total size 48x51in.

I’m going to do a little rant today on a subject that impacts every single one of you every single day.   The success of individuals, families, companies, and nations rises and falls on this subject.  This subject is often not talked about much in the home…sometimes as hush hush or as embarrassingly glossed over in homes and schools as the birds and the bees.  Yet our understanding of this subject has a significant influence on the height of our happiness, the breadth of our impact on the world and the depth of our bank account.   Wanna know what the subject is? Okay, I’ll tell you. It’s a one-word answer. Money. Okay, when I say that word, “Money” what thoughts come to your mind? What emotions fill your heart? I was raised in a religious environment where the prevailing notion about money was that it was somehow evil or at least that it caused a lot of bad things. I actually had a mindset that was a bit afraid of it or at least afraid of having too much of it and I didn’t even know how to define what too much was. But more and more these days, I’m getting these crazy good opportunities to hang around people who have a very different view of money. Shelley, Chellan and I got to spend a couple of days last week at the Prestel and Partner Family Office Forum in San Francisco.  It was hosted on this amazing 100ft yacht in the SF Bay. According to their website, the average Net Worth of the families and individuals at this event was $500M. I have no idea how they know that they sure didn’t ask my Net worth at the door, and it’s probably a good thing as they might not have let me on the ship cause my Networth would have lowered the average too much. Anyway, from how I used to think, you’d think that this would have been some uppity up event with people who were selfishly absorbed in making more money and having cooler stuff.  But it was absolutely the opposite. There were a bunch of normal but ambitious business people but people with a driving passion to make the world a better place through what they do in business and through the money business creates. Honestly, the majority of the presentations and roundtable discussions were all about how to make a bigger positive impact for good on this world. And this wasn’t just for some feel-good stuff. Like we invest to make money but want to have it look like we are doing some good for the world in the process. No, these people are serious about real impact to the point of having very specific ways to measure and report on the impact for good. Impact investments are investments made into companies, organizations, and funds with the intention to generate social and environmental impact alongside a financial return.  The focus is on providing or creating the money needed to address the world’s most pressing challenges. There were presentations and roundtable discussions about how to do this in sectors such as sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, conservation, microfinance, and affordable and accessible basic services including housing, healthcare, and education. Loved hearing one dad talk about how they play this game with their teenage kids where they pick one major problem in society and have a time limit for coming up with out of the box business ideas and plans that could address that challenge in society.  From illiteracy to homelessness, to aids to racial injustice, etc. It was so refreshing and energizing to be around business leaders and families who truly view money as a tool to make society better. So different from the prevailing paradigm I used to have. This made me really wonder, why is it that money seems to get such a bad rap, especially from many well-meaning religious folks? Some people think that the Bible says that money is the root of all evil. In reality, it says: “The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.”[i] If when you think about the money you have thoughts of evil or fear it will lead to one path that will miss the power I believe it was intended to do for Good on this earth. Far from being evil, money is meant to be the result of loving people well. It is only when we love money more than we love people that it causes all kinds of problems. Whenever my company begins loving the money more than we love the process of serving our customers and our team, we ultimately end up with all kinds of challenges. That’s why a couple of the core values in every business I’ve led for the last twenty-five years have been to always act in the best interest of our customers, and to always do the right thing regardless of the personal or corporate cost. These are non-negotiable guiding principles that keep money in proper perspective as the measure of how well we are serving people. Sustainable success and positive influence come from putting the needs of other people first. Not every company or business leader thinks that way. Because some people love money more than they love people, the wealth that commerce can create has sometimes been seen as something that is bad. But there is a long tradition of cultures that see business success as the epitome of service to society. Have had the opportunity to get to know several wealthy Jewish families at some of these events.  Interesting to learn more about how the Jewish tradition has no problem with wealth because it is seen as resulting from and producing a great benefit to the community. Rabbi Daniel Lapin wrote a great book I’ve read a couple times now.  Highly recommend it. Thou Shalt Prosper, recounts how money and wealth were viewed throughout the history of the Jews. It's insightful to understand how historic Jewish people understood money and wealth. Money as a Medal Jewish people believed that the wealthiest person in the community was the greatest servant in the community. Wealth was simply a measure of how well and how much you served humanity. Every dollar bill represented a certificate, or medal, proving that you had served someone, just like a military medal received for service to your country. Money was viewed as a medal for giving your life in service to humanity. Thus, in the traditional Jewish paradigm, if you had no money, you were not serving society. In historic Jewish communities, they gave the best seat in the house, the best seat in the synagogue to the wealthiest man. This was not because they were trying to suck up to him. No! It was because they truly saw the wealthiest person as the greatest servant of society, deserving the best seat. Today people often view making a lot of money as a sign of greed and spending money as a curse to avoid. We view spending as a curse because we feel we lose something by doing so, or we feel an aversion to materialism. Yet in the Jewish mindset, spending is a blessing to the world because we are paying for a product or service that adds value in some way to the world. The Tale of Two Tactics for Influence Let's go back in history to some time in the Middle Ages to a little Jewish community somewhere in Europe. Let’s make it a village in Germany, where my grandparents were born. In that little community, they would take their Jewish boys and find the most aggressive, self-motivated young boys and send them to school for a rabbinical education. Then they would bring these boys back to their community. They were now highly educated, self-motivated young boys. As the boys came of marriageable age, the community would arrange a marriage, possibly to the daughter of the wealthiest man in the community. Then this highly educated young man would say to his young growing family, “Kids, let me tell you, the money that you're going to end up inheriting from your grandfather isn't yours and it isn't mine. Let me tell you a story. If it weren't for Mordecai, Esther, Daniel, Shadrach, and Joseph, most administrations in every city our people have lived in would have killed us. We exist today because of the platform that previous generations have built for us. This wealth that we have is for us to manage and protect because it is designed to give us the ability to add value in and therefore influence every one of the cities and cultures where our people live. This is so our lineage can survive and thrive in future generations. So I want you to know, grandkids, you are not to spend this inheritance, wasting it on yourselves. Use it to build a business that builds a platform to add value to society. Your ancestor Mordecai, who saved our people from certain death, wasn't working a job somewhere in a field. He was a leader with influence where he could hear about the plot of King Artaxerxes to kill our entire people. Thus he was able to save his life and save Esther and thus keep our people from being killed. So we've got to continue stewarding our wealth by using it as a platform to create value and build influence in society. This wealth that we have and the wealth that we can create is designed to give us influence in every city. It isn't yours to be wasted on yourself.” With this ethic, the Jewish people became influential in many of the countries and cities where they lived. In Germany, for example, by 1923, 150 of the 161 privately-owned banks in Berlin were Jewish. About 75% of the attorneys, and nearly as many doctors were Jewish. Although only 1% of the German population, representing a negligible electoral power, by the early twentieth century the Jews’ economic, social, and political impact was considerable. By the 1930s, who in Germany owned and controlled most of the companies and industries? Who controlled the steel industry, the fur trade, the newspaper industry, etc.? It was the Jews. Now, in a normal society, this would simply be an example of how business and the wealth it generates can allow a minority population to exert significant influence on society. Unfortunately, as we all know, the Germany of the 1930s was taken down an abnormal path by an evil madman named Hitler. The evil forces of this world wanted to exterminate this group of people who were leading influencers in building a better world through doing commerce well. Hitler absurdly made the Jews’ influence in society into a scapegoat for society’s ills instead of honoring them for serving society and we all know the atrocities that followed. However, this story and the Jew’s resurgence of influence illustrates how much impact a healthy view of the value of wealth generated by a business can have on a society, even when exercised by a small and even unpopular part of the population. For contrast, let's go back to that same place in Germany, only let's go to a Catholic community instead of a Jewish one. Now the Catholic community takes their aggressive and self-motivated young boys and sends them off to the Jesuits and they come back as highly educated, self-motivated and aggressive young boys, many of whom become priests. These educated young boys begin influencing all of Central and South America and parts of the United States for Catholicism. These young priests are like pioneers. They gain vast amounts of wealth for the church and influence society quite a bit. Fifty-four cities in the United States are named after Catholic saints (Santa Fe, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, and Los Angeles are just a few of the more famous examples). Yet because these celibate priests didn't have families, the wealth they collected over their lifetimes was passed on to institutions. Institutions are not wealth creators. Individuals and families doing business are wealth creators. Wealth was never designed to be managed, protected, and built upon inside of an institution. Attempts to build wealth within an institution inevitably cause the influence of the institution to be viewed as paramount over the influence created by serving people well.      I have come to believe wealth was designed to be managed and built upon inside the family and used as a platform for people to serve society in increasingly effective ways across the generations. This is a new paradigm in recent years for me. It has caused me to cast a new vision for my family and even revise my estate and trust structures to accommodate this new paradigm, where the wealth I create in this generation is passed on to the next generation, not for them to spend on themselves, but as a platform in trust for them to use as a basis for adding more value to society and rebuilding the world. This is, in many ways, the Jewish model throughout the centuries. Although there have certainly been abuses and mistakes made in this model, it has resulted in an inordinate influence on societies. Today, the Jewish people are relatively few in number (there are less than 15 million Jews in the world). Yet in relation to their numbers, they have a huge business and financial influence. Though more persecuted than almost any group in the world, Jews control more wealth per person than any other group. Arguably, they have more influence per person on society than any other group in the world. There are undoubtedly multiple causes for this inordinate influence. However, one significant cause is clearly their deeply embedded belief that money is a medal of honor for doing business that blesses society.      Today, the Catholics are huge in number with more than 1.2 billion in the world. There are many highly successful and influential Catholic leaders around the globe. Some are my dearest and most respected friends. Yet in relation to their numbers overall, this people group doesn’t have nearly the economic strength or influence the Jewish people group has on society. In fact, many of the poorest countries in the world are primarily dominated by the Catholic Church. There are undoubtedly multiple causes for this. However, one significant cause is the historic religious belief that money and materialism are evil and that commerce is a necessary evil to make a living and create donations to the church. This also illustrates that churches existing on donations cannot exercise the same influence that businesses can. The Catholic Church primarily created wealth through donations, not by providing a product or service for a profit. On the other hand, the Jews primarily created wealth by providing a product or service for profit. Thus, their influence is both wide and deep, especially in proportion to their numbers. A company is in some ways like an extension of the family concept, where people work together to create value that has a positive influence on society. Those companies and families who understand how money and business can redeem culture are world changers and history makers. An Ancient Teaching on Influence Jesus was one of those history-making leaders who really got this. A couple thousand years ago when Jesus was teaching how God’s ideal society would develop in cities, he told a story that illustrates how business leaders who are able to turn one gold coin into ten gold coins are the ones who would end up having influence over ten cities. Society is built by business leaders who multiply their money and increase their net worth by providing a product or service or creating value so that it multiplies. This is what Jesus taught about how God's ideal society (what he called God's kingdom) is designed to grow. Yet it is interesting that the Catholic Church, which is supposed to be one of the primary vehicles for bringing God's kingdom to earth, ended up following a system that was not at all based on the system Jesus taught was to be used for building God's ideal society on this earth. Instead, the Catholic Church fostered what is, in reality, more like a socialistic system that takes from the producers to give to the non-producers. And for the most part, the institutional church around the world continues to perpetuate this basic paradigm of taking from the producers to give to non-producers more than it perpetuates the paradigm of people producing tangible value to build a better society. Don't get me wrong. I do believe there is great value in producers giving to help people who can't produce. I do believe there is great value in generously giving to the church or charity you believe can use those resources to do really good and important work that wouldn't otherwise get done in this world. For the last forty some years, my wife and I have regularly donated a pretty good percentage of our income to churches and charities like this. And I think many of our donations do make a positive impact on the world. I am simply making a statement about the systems that I believe will ultimately have the greatest impact on transforming our world. I would put transformational commerce at the top of the list. God's ideal society is not built best on a paradigm that takes from the one who produces and gives to the one who doesn't. I believe “the church” as Jesus envisioned it, as you will see in subsequent chapters, was actually designed to be people providing value to society through the marketplace.   One Last Lesson on Leadership Influence  This notion first started to dawn on me one day when I was reading the apostle Paul's last speech to the leaders he had been mentoring for years. Paul is known as the leader who did more to build the early church than perhaps any other person after Jesus. He developed leaders (none of whom were paid professional religious leaders) to oversee the church in various cities. He was about to make a long trip to Jerusalem, where he knew he would very likely be killed for going against the religious norms of that time. Just before he left, he gathered these church leaders, what we would call “pastors” today, and gave his farewell speech. With tears, Paul gave these pastors his final leadership advice for building the church. He didn't tell them to preach better sermons, build better buildings, start more programs to feed the poor or raise more money to fund the ministry. What he said was that he had not coveted silver or gold or clothing.[ii] In fact, he said he had always produced the money for these himself: “You yourselves know that these hands of mine have supplied my own needs and the needs of my companions.”[iii] Paul had worked for his own money, and he had been able to help others with that money too. He suggested that they do the same: “In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”[iv] In his last speech to the pastors he is mentoring in the early church, Paul is essentially saying, “I want you to be like me. I want you to produce so much profit from the work you do in business that you have plenty of money to give to those in need.” Now that's a switch. He's not telling pastors that the secret to success is to get their congregations to give more. He was telling pastors to make more so they could give more to their congregations! I want you to make enough money so you can give! Make profit so you can give to those who have a need in your congregation! I don't know about you, but I have never heard a sermon on how pastors are supposed to do so well in business that they can give to people in the congregation. That, though, is the essence of Paul's last speech. Clearly, Paul did not see money or business as the root of all evil but instead as the basis for blessing society. When this dawned on me, it became clear that business and the church are supposed to have a more significant influence in building a good society than what most of us understand today. So I’m going to challenge you to really evaluate your underlying subconscious beliefs and paradigms about money.  Do you view it as an evil thing or something to avoid being around too much or to avoid having too much because it might somehow tarnish you?  Or do you view it as a medal of honor for the value you create for others? Do you view it as a sinful or sinister thing or as a certificate of service that simply lets you know how much good you are doing for others or for this world?  Embrace money as a measure of the value you give in serving humanity and humanity will be that much better of because of you. Much of the potency of business to permeate every aspect of society for good flows from the genius of the free enterprise system in promoting good human relations and creating value in society.   Resources: [i] 1 Timothy 6:10 [ii] Acts 20:33 [iii] Acts 20:34 [iv] Acts 20:35

We continue our journey through the forrest of unique conversations from this years LA Design Festival. This week, we have a very cool presentation from LADdesign founder, graphic designer, creative director and Grammy Award winner, Lawrence Azerrad. Azerrad’s studio, LADdesign is focused on the crossroads of branding, culture, music and education. It makes perfects sense too as Azzard’s prior experience was as an art director with Warner Bros. Records working on the creative packaging for artists ranging from the Red Hot Chili Peppers to Miles Davis. Azzara is the author of a book called Supersonic: The Design and Lifestyle of Concorde. It is a Prestel release due out in September 2018. He is also a producer and creative director of The Voyager Golden Record 40th Anniversary Edition. He discusses all of it here in a conversation about design from a very unique point of view. Lawrence is introduced by Erika Abrams, member of the Advisory Board of the AIGA, Los Angeles chapter, as is Lawrence. A happy coincidence here is that we shared our space at the LA Design Festival with the AIGA LA as they were presenting some AMAZING subway art graphics that you can still see in the the background of our videos shot at the festival. Please go to our YouTube channel and check them out. Thank you for listening to this episode of Convo By Design. If you like what you hear, and I hope you do, please give us a 5 star rating and a review. It helps new listeners find the podcast and it is greatly appreciated. #Design #Architecture #Art #ConvoByDesign #Music #Miele #SnyderDiamond #LADesignFest #Movies Convo By Design - http://www.ConvoByDesign.com Snyder Diamond - http://www.SnyderDiamond.com Miele USA - http://www.MieleUSA.com Vondom USA - http://www.Vondom.com Music provided by Electric Sol Artist: Electric Sol Song: Your Love Makes Me High www.electricsolmusic.com

Prestel Publishing curates what “Children Should Know” about art. So far, the “13 Series” includes 20 books about architecture, photography, design, fashion, craft, culture, history, and ethnography. Each volume is filled with colorful double-page spreads, highlighting 13 of the most important, famous, or influential things around a single art topic. For example, in the books, we discover the 13 most famous “Bridges” and “Skyscrapers” and the 13 most influential “Modern Artists” and “Art Materials.” Although the Prestel “13 Series” is specifically designed to whet children's appetite for learning more about art, this ever-growing set of photo-rich books appeals to adults as well. As coffee-table books, these can be perused slowly, a few pages at a time. Designed to make each topic accessible, Prestel packs the books with detailed descriptions, representative illustrations, and, at the top of most pages, a timeline to help put the topic in a historical context. The gorgeous color reproductions are enough to keep any reader engaged for hours, but the books are packed with so much more. Quiz questions sprinkled throughout keep children guessing, and supplemental sources such as book and movie recommendations and suggestions for museums, websites, other places to visit accompany each topic. Finally, tips for projects, a glossary, and “Good-to-Know” sidebars offer something for every reader. The “13 Series” set aims to spark a lifelong interest in the arts.   Prestel Publishing has been part of the Random House Publishing Group since 2008 with its head office in Munich and branches in London and New York. Brad Finger, contributing author, discusses how his background in art history and love of architecture helped qualify him to write six of the books in the “13 Series” coTitpyedit 11 others. Finger worked 15 years as an editor at World Book Encyclopedia (1991-2006) in Chicago and has spent much of his freelance career working for the Alzheimer's Association. Titles by Brad Finger: BUY 13 Skyscrapers Children Should Know BUY 13 Art Movements Children Should Know BUY 13 Photos Children Should Know BUY 13 Bridges Children Should Know BUY 13 Modern Artists Children Should Know BUY 13 American Artists Children Should Know Discover more children's books by Prestel publishing. Connect with us on social media: Facebook Instagram Twitter Music Credit Sound Editing Credit

Someone said some place, that if you want to get stuff done, give it to a busy person.  My guest this week is Dave Prestel, W8AJR.  Dave is a busy person who as a volunteer for many ham radio organizations in Howard County, Maryland, just gets stuff done to the benefit of the amateur radio community and his larger community.  He is my QSO Today.

How Fiona Robertson travelled the world on a shoestring, discovering her life path as she went. Plus the best travel food ever!Hi everybody, I'm Barbara Fernandez, the Rocking Raw Chef, here with my Clean Food, Dirty Stories: one to entertain, the other to inspire.I help people stamp out stress, depression and fatigue over at RockingRawChef.com, and today's title is:Adventure was my missing nutrientIn addition to this story, at the end of this episode I'll share with you the best travel food I know. It's not only packed with nutrients and easy to carry everywhere, but it's also the best food to help eliminate parasites from the body.OK enough hints from me, let's get on with the story.I am super excited to be joined here today for our story by Fiona Robertson, the Body Whisperer, who helps people understand who they want to be. Fiona has travelled all over the world and has some amazing adventures to share with us which I think you will find very inspirational.So Fiona, welcome to the Clean Food, Dirty Stories podcast!Fiona: Yeah, thank you very much for having me. Thanks for inviting me. Nice to meet you here finally, face to face.Me: Yes, exactly! Cause we've known each other for a while, right? But it's been like an internet based...Fiona: An internet-based friendship, yeah, I know (laughs).Fiona's storyMe: Super! So I know that you've got, you've had quite a lot of adventures, but I think you mentioned that your taste for adventure perhaps came from your childhood. Is that right? You said you felt quite different as a child, can you maybe explain why?Fiona: Yeah, 4 years old we went to South Africa to live as a family. We kind of grew up with no shoes. So basically just kind of playing with lizards and centipedes and understanding all about nature and just wanting to be outside climbing trees, being a tomboy.A different way to grow upIt was just a different way for me to grow up. And when we moved back to the UK, I realized I was just different. I wanted to be outside playing in different ways and not playing giggly, schoolgirl games.Me: So how old were you when you moved back to the UK?Fiona: I was nine. Yeah, nine, nine and a half, something like that. Just kind of old enough, over the formative years, you know, that I'd really got a different country and kind of life under my skin. You know, I'd learnt Afrikans, I'd learned there was another language, I'd learnt there were different things going on. We were in South Africa at the time of apartheid as well, so you get a lot of different experiences, you know? We travelled there too on holiday of course.You see, I didn't think it was different, but it is, you're in a game park for a holiday and there's cheetas walking in the car park. It's exciting! And that's what my story's about, I didn't realize that adventure was so under my skin.Into the militaryMe: And so you said that you signed up to work with American Express in the military, is that right?Fiona: Yeah, one of my first jobs when I finished college and school and everything, I didn't want to go on to be an interior designer. That was my dream. But when they mentioned to me that it was four years foundational course and then I could specialize, I was like, “You've got to be kidding me! I can't sit still for that long! I've gotta be out there doing something!”I was interested in travel and so I got a job with American Express and it was on the American Air Force bases in the UK. So I started in High Wyckham and I was basically doing their travel tickets, their military travel tickets, then I ended up going and reliefing on the other different air force bases. So Greenham Common, Huntingdon, the ones in East Anglia, and just travelling around and doing that. Going and doing my travel, my specialist travel stuff for the American air force base.A different worldIt was cool because you walk into a different world. You go on the American an air force base and that land is owned by America. They have their happy hour, they have their bowling alleys, they have their shops, they have their own ways and cultures of doing things.Me: Wow. That just strikes me as really weird, you know? Like I've never, I mean even though I've lived in the UK for quite a while now. I've never been on any of the bases, and so part of me always just thinks, 'you're not contributing to the local economy', you know.Fiona: Oh they are, they don't all live on base, they live outside. But that was when I was nineteen, I started working on the American air force bases.The perfect job in travelLooking back now I just think what a perfect job for me. Working in travel and on an American air force base, you know?Me: So you organized travel for them, is that right?Fiona: I organized travel for them and basically with the old Prestel sets and the old ABC travel guide books we found air flights and all that kind of stuff. So I took all my exams for APTA travel. After that I went on to do incentive travel and after that I went on to sort of venue finding. Anything to do with people and traveling and moving. But incentive travel was very interesting, I liked that too.Me: What's incentive travel?Fiona: Imagine that you've got top salesmen and saleswomen and they're given an incentive. If they're the top team in the whole company in the whole of the country, then they get sent to some glorious destination and everything's paid for. So we used to organize all that, you know? With the ground agents and meals and restaurants. Down to exactly what kind of napkins would be on the table. It was like organizing a big wedding every few months, you know? Everything from the chauffeurs to the taxis to the kind of color-coordinating the flowers, everything.Import, export and video camerasMe: And then you went into a very different kind of business, right? With video cameras or something?Fiona: Yeah, I had another job in between time working for actually Ocean Pacific and I was on the export desk there. And I used to do all the certificates of export, and that was interesting for me. Because other people couldn't understand what these guys were saying, and I was just able to tune into what maybe the Greeks or the Spanish or the...You know, they were speaking pidgin English and wanting to be understood and then I was able to tune in somehow to what they were actually trying to tell me.And then I went on selling military cameras into industry, and again I worked with a lot of people from all over the world. So I listened to their languages and I listened to their accents and I understood about their culturesMe: So what happened when you wanted to go travelling? Because you said that at one point you had this business and then you sold it, is that right?Fiona: Yeah, from running the company I was working with I then set myself up for myself and found all my own clients and things and did that for two or three years. And I woke up one morning and thought 'God do I want to be doing this in five years' time? No! Two years? No!'Time to go travellingMe: So was there any specific incident that prompted this decision? Or was it literally from one day to the next waking up and going 'I don't want to do this'?Fiona: I thought that the company that I'd set up was my baby. I'd been with this other guy who was in the same industry though he ran a different company. So when we split up I think that was probably one of the kick up the backsides. I just said, “No, this is my baby, I want to hang onto this baby, this company” because Vision Source was my baby.But then when I woke up in the morning I just went, 'oh my God what am I doing? Do I really want to be doing this?' And when it was such a loud, resounding 'no', I couldn't not listen to that. I really had to think, 'no I'm just not going to be satisfied, it's going to kill me if I stay in this office and do this'. Even though it was doing really, really well.I managed to find somebody who was interested in selling, I sold the company to them. I rented my house out and I just took a rucksack and started travelling around the world.Me: So then how did you start? I think you said you bought an around the world ticket or something? I'm asking because, you know, if there's somebody listening who thinks 'oh I'd really like to travel around the world', I think some people wouldn't even know where to start, you know?A pink-haired rebel going round the worldFiona: Yeah, I was thirty-nine, I dyed my hair pink. Me: That's hilarious!Fiona: I was like wanting to be rebellious. Most people when they see the photographs kind of say, “Were you fifteen then?” and I say “No, thirty-nine, dyed my hair pink”. And I had my rucksack, a friend just said, you know, grab a rucksack. You buy a ticket that goes one direction around the world, and you can't go backwards so you always find a destination that forwards. And I think I didn't go that off the grid really. Thinking about it in retrospect it was fairly obvious.South Africa I started because that's where I've still got family living. Then, you know, Thailand, Singapore, Fiji, Cook, New Zealand, Australia and America. I really did not want that to end. That was just...no way.Me: But I think at the beginning I mean I imagine you would have had a decent amount of money to do that from the sale of your business, right? At some point did the money run out? I ask because you said that at one point you were just very trusting and that you thought, 'OK how can I just go to this new place with no money and nowhere to stay?'Fiona: I didn't...the business wasn't sold until I came back from my travels. They owed me the money. They were supposed to be selling my cameras and selling everything while I was away, and they just basically didn't. So I had to sort of deal with things until I came back. And my house that was rented only rented for a few months rather than for the whole year. So yes.Me: Wow.How travelling can be cheaper than staying at homeFiona: In fact it's cheaper to travel around the world than it is to live in a house and try and support yourself.Me: Whoa, you're kidding! Really?Fiona: No, I mean you stay in backpackers. You've got no material needs, you've got your shorts, your t-shirts, your toothbrush, you bring everything back to real, real basics. So you've got a book, you finish a book, you swap it for another book. It's just cheap. You stay in youth hostels, you meet fantastic people. Some of them obviously an awful lot younger than I was at the time. I was thirty-nine, they were all on their first out of university experience, they were travelling the world finding out who they were. And I didn't do that till later, but...Then you've also got different generations who decide to do it. But staying in youth hostels, they're pretty much...they're a good crowd of people. And when I really kind of left my rucksack in the first place, I locked it up, I tied it up, I did all the things that I thought I had to do. And then I walked out of the youth hostel and I went, 'no, damnit, I'm gonna go back and I'm gonna unlock everything. We're all in the same boat, we're all from different countries, we're all in the same boat. I've been travelling on an open-sided bus in a tent, on ants' nests and all the rest of it. This is not gonna be a problem for me'.A successful mental mindsetSo mental mindset: “I' am not gonna have any problems with anybody touching any of my stuff. I got nothing they want to steal, we're all in the same boat, we've all got like...” We had our old CD players, we didn't have mobile phones and those kind of things then.Me: That's true, yeah.Fiona: And I carried my passport and my money and my tickets with me in a little bumbag as we had then. Everybody was in the same boat and if you're that open and trusting and you believe you're OK, this is very much the work that I do now too funnily enough, but if you have that vibration running through you, you'll be OK. If you have the vibration running through you like...People before I left wanted to say to me, “Oh my God! Really? You're going to this country? Well don't let anybody put anything in your bag” and “don't put your bag out of your sight” and really all their fears they were trying to put onto me before I left.But if you have this kind of like 'Do you know what? We're all in the same boat, we're all wanting to be experiencing travel and different places and different people and food and...Me: Yeah. So then...Wow! I'm still reeling actually from the previous thing you said about it being cheaper to, you know, travel the world and stay all over the place than to stay in one place, you know. I'm going to be thinking about that for a while!On to Reiki trainingBut I know that you said that at some point you started just like doing things for people to kind of pay your way, right?Fiona: Yeah, it wasn't so much to pay my way but it was just to experiment. During my travels I decided that I would finish off my Reiki. That was a funny story as well.So I'd been travelling, I ended up in Cape Town and I decided to go for Reiki because I enjoyed Reiki. And this guy gave me Reiki and I was completely knocked out. When I sort of came round, he said, “Oh something came to me when I was doing your Reiki. If you're interested in pursuing, maybe finishing off your masters or something like that to do with Reiki, I know a very good woman. She lives in Prince Albert.”And he told me where that was and I thought 'well that's kind of up from where my dad lives on the wilderness in South Africa, I could go and see Valentine and have some time with her'.So I thought about it for a while and I rang, and I rang, and I rang, and I remember writing in my journal, “Bloody hell! This woman is impossible to get hold of!”Changing your thought patternsI scrubbed that out and I put “This woman is easy to get hold of”. I did have a phone, beg your pardon, one of the first kind of Nokia phones. She rang me. So imagine – I'd been saying all this time, 'this woman is really hard to get hold of'.Me: Yeah, and of course she was then.Fiona: Just by scrubbing out that whole thought pattern and changing my thought pattern, I'd actually said 'this woman's gonna be...and she's really easy to get hold of'. My phone then rang and she rang me to say, “Great, I've had your messages. When can you come?”Me: Super! Wow!Travelling with the flowFiona: So I was on this roll when I was travelling of trying to be this very open, flowing person who wanted to experience how easy and safe the world was. Rocking up in an airport like in Australia, I hadn't got any Australian dollars, I hadn't got anywhere to stay. It was kind of one o'clock in the morning when we landed. I wanted to find out how easy it was just by allowing myself to feel easy.Me: And so what happened in that Australian airport at one in the morning?Fiona: Oh God it couldn't have been easier! They are so set up. Maybe in another country it would have been harder.So you arrive in the airport and most people had somewhere to stay and they were being picked up by people. I walked in and I thought, 'oh a cash machine, fine, pop my card in, get cash out, that's easy'. By the cash machine there's a desk there, a welcome desk, there's brochures everywhere for youth hostels and everything. And I thought, 'I wonder if I ring them now if anybody would be on the desk, or if I should have to sleep in the airport'. Which I had done before.And so I rang and somebody said, “Yeah, yeah, no problem, we can come and pick you up, we'll see if there's anybody else coming this way. We'll be there in about an hour”. And they were. Super polite, super easy. Picked up my bags, picked me up, took me to the youth hostel in Perth. Got me a room and that was it.Don't plan too much in advanceMe: Wow. So generally you found that that's the way it worked, right? With the trusting and that it would be easy and things just kind of like fell into place?Fiona: I was told before I left by a girlfriend of mine also called Fiona. She said to me, “Don't book too much up in advance because so many things are changing the whole time. Try not to plan too much because if you plan, you're planning out what the universe might have to deliver to you. Something more fun, something more exciting.”Me: Oh yeah, that makes total sense.Fiona: So don't plan too much. I kind of took it from the other point of view, that I'm a planner, I'm a scheduler, I'm a bulldozer. I'll make things happen. And I was really trying to be experiencing from a different perspective. This was my opportunity to really experience that to live in the flow.And that's really what I want to try and do in my everyday life as a mom now as well. Be more open and understanding and intuitive to...'OK so why did that happen then? Why are they ill?' So this is what brought me...OK raw food kind of came in there as well, but it really brought me to sort of try and interpret what I was being shown.And if you happen to get arrested...Me: Yeah. So did you have moments when you were travelling when the flow just stopped? And you started to feel fear or you were just like 'Oh this isn't working” or... If you did, how did you get back into flow?Fiona: Yeah, I'm trying to think about it. I got complacent, I was in Thailand and I stayed longer than I should so I was kind of arrested when I left.Me: Oh my God, you were arrested!Fiona: Yeah, because I'd overstayed my visa. You're only allowed to stay there a certain length of time so when I left, I just handed in my passport. And they pulled me off to this room and they really interrogated me and I'm just like, 'I was just kind of complacent and I didn't really think about it' and “Well I'm leaving now so just let me go!” (laughs)Me: And so what happened? Did they let you go?Fiona: They let me go, but they made me wait it out. I think I missed that flight so I had to get another one or something. Yeah, they wanted to really make a point there that you can't be complacent. So I thought OK... I wasn't really in charge of looking at my dates in that respect.When you have to push a littleAnother time was when I was in Australia. I was coming down the west coast of Australia and it became a bit of a rush. So I knew that my visa ended at a certain date, I had to be in Sydney so that I could get my flight to New Zealand. The people I was travelling with were under no speed whatsoever. So I realized then 'I have to do something, I have to move this forward faster'. Then I became out of the flow and I was very proactive into getting things moving. And I don't know what would have happened if I'd just bummed along, I don't know.Me: Well yeah but I mean, but then you...that was kind of necessary, right?Fiona: Yeah.A Thailand detox adventureMe: Sometimes you have to do that right? And then you said that at one point you said you kind of discovered raw food and detox and you started coaching girls on your travels?Fiona: I did, that was really fun.Me: How did that happen?Fiona: I was in Thailand and I'd done Thai massage, Thai cooking. And I'd said to the girl that I'd met when I was travelling...I said “God, you know we need to be doing something that we would never, ever dream about doing when we went home”. She said, “Yeah I agree, we need to do something that's kind of off the wall”. I said, “Exactly!”I walked into this bar just to order a water and there was a leaflet on the desk that said The Sanctuary. And it was for detoxing. So I took the flyer and I said, “This really, really hits me! Let's go and try this!” I spoke to the guy behind the bar and he said it's a really cool place in Koh Pang Yang.That's where we went and did detoxing, and they had a fantastic raw restaurant. I'd never experienced raw food before. So we did the detox and I learned what I could from Moon, who was the guy who ran the place and the time. I looked at these menus of these foods and of course your tastebuds change when you do a detox. This was a full detox, colon cleanse, doing enemas, coffee enemas and everything else. Met some fantastic people, had some great conversations, we slept a lot.Simple food for radiant resultsWe met all sorts of shamans, all sorts of stuff. And then I realized afterwards that myself and my friend, our bodies had completely changed, our body temperature had changed.In about three weeks after that, we went for two weeks to another island and we did absolutely nothing. We just ate very, very simply, just raw food. So tomatoes and everything. The restaurants there were very confused. We didn't want the Thai food, we just said, “Basic, plain plate of tomatoes, that's all we want”. So we learned how to say that and we were doing that. We radically shifted some weight and we radically...our bodies changed and our whole energy was completely different. I was like, 'geez I like this! I get this! I feel awesome, I feel radiant!' We were just having so much fun!The coaching beginsMe: So then you started coaching girls? To help them...Fiona: Yeah then in the next place I went to I met some young girls. And a couple of them had said, “We're on our last leg”. They were kind of going the other way around the world. And one of them had kind of said, “You know, I'm a nurse and I left that because I wanted to find myself, I wanted to find out what I really wanted to do. And here I am on the last leg of my journey and I don't think I've found myself at all!”Magical questionsI said, “Oh, OK”. So I just started asking her some questions, and I set her some tasks for the evening. I said, “What do you want to do?” And she said, “I've got no idea!” I set her some tasks for example, I think one of them was 'a hundred and one things that make you happy'. How easy. And setting out what her perfect day would include. They were two of the simplest tasks that I thought that she might actually do or might actually enjoy doing.And the next morning when we were kind of...She was leaving and I was just having breakfast. And she was like, “Oh my God!” She said, “I totally get what I wish I'd known before. I know what it is that I want, I know what makes me happy, I know this and I know that and I know the other” and I was like 'oh my God'. And then just other conversations, it just seemed to be natural for me that when I was speaking to somebody...Not telling them what they should do, but kind of like, 'have you ever thought about what it is you'd like to do? What it is...Who you'd like to be, what you'd like to wear? How you'd like to sound, speak? Do you enjoy singing? Dancing? What is it?' All the different things that make you who you want to be.Me: Wow.Fiona: It came from that, really. Just having conversations. Nothing structured, but just allowing people to find out for themselves what they liked about life, about being alive.Finding a travel partnerMe: And then at one point you met your Dutch partner, right? How did that happen?Fiona: Yes, we met in Australia and we just started travelling together. We were going the same route together. Very interesting conversations. He allowed me to be very profound and very deep. And I found something new about myself as well, which normally I would not have had those kind of conversations with people. In a very deep, delving, wondering, curious, inquisitive, wanting to know more. So that was kind of refreshing and probably why we stuck together for so long because we allowed each other to have those kind of conversations. And I found myself a different kind of person. That I didn't agree with everything that he said, or I had an opinion. I found my strength from having those kind of conversations too, I'd had a strong interior. And I found that I knew what I wanted, let's put it that way.Back home and pregnantMe: I know at some point your trip around the world ended. And then you were...you were back at home feeling sad, right? But then you were...you started travelling again when you were three months pregnant, is that right?Fiona: (laughs) Yeah, I got back to my house in Oxford. We stayed there for a while and I'm just like, 'God, I don't want to be here because I'm gonna end up doing what I used to do and I don't want to do that'. The world's a bigger place, you know?So I was three months pregnant, I was age 40, and I said “Right, that's it. We're gonna take a caravan, and we're gonna find somewhere that makes my heart melt. That really fills my heart, that makes me feel fulfilled”.Me: Wow, what did your partner say? Was he surprised? Or was he like 'yup'...Fiona: He was cool for that, he's now back in Holland, he's not here with me in France. He couldn't make it work for himself. But that's OK. So that was it. He said, 'yeah, great! Let's have an adventure'.An adventure to find your ideal homeWe took a caravan and basically I had a tick list of the things that we wanted. So what would you want if you had everything you could possibly imagine? You'd want the sea and you'd want the mountains. And you'd want the outdoor life because South Africa's under my skin. I'd have the plants in the garden, hibiscus plants and palm trees. It would be very green.So we started travelling, you know, down the coastal route of France, and kind of 'does this place? No. This place doesn't feel good. Does this place?' And “How will you know when you find it?” he used to keep saying. “I'll just know, I'll just know”.Me: And so how long were you travelling before you found it? Because most people wouldn't leave when they were three months pregnant, right? Cause they'd be thinking about 'oh my God'...No tests, no scansFiona: I didn't have any tests, I didn't have any scans, I didn't have anything. And I was huge, I had like a huge baseball, like a beach ball stuck out in front of me. My son ended up being five kilos, he was a big boy. But I was a very happy mom, and I was just really, really happy being pregnant and travelling.Me: And so where was he born? Was he born before...Fiona: He was born in Holland. So we stayed here, we found the place, we found Biarritz Saint Jean De Luz. And I imagined us living here what it would be like. We both had tears in our eyes and it just felt so homely, we had left and we'd come back. And when we came back it felt like we'd come home. So it was all feeling-based.Me: Yeah, I'm the same, I'm very feeling-based so I can totally relate to that.No French, no job, no baby knowledge...Fiona: And so then we found the house and then we went back to Holland. We had Micah in Holland, we lived in a holiday home for two months. Micah was my eldest who's now twelve. He was one month old when we moved back here. I knew nothing about babies, I knew zip! Nothing! Nada! I had his sister who helped me go shopping and all the rest of it. And I was breastfeeding and I thought, 'Well what else do I need to know?' I probably sound like such a hippy!Then we came here, we didn't speak French, we didn't have a job, we had a house, a big house. And we had a baby, and my big dog, he was with us as well, Milo. I sometimes wonder how I managed but I used to speak to my spirit animal and for some reason she used to guide me through and make me feel very comfortable and very safe. And that's how I did it.Me: Wow. And then...well, you speak French now, right?Fiona: I don't think I could ever call myself a good speaking French person. I do my best.Me: Well yeah but you make the effort, right? You do what you can, right?Fiona: Oh yeah, I make myself understood. And even funnily enough when we first moved here he would say to me, “What did they say?” I'd say, “I couldn't repeat it, I don't know what they said. But I know it's OK. And we need to do this, this and this”. It was just like an infusion.Me: Yeah, well like it was when you heard people speaking with different accents before, right? That's cool.Fiona: So I was here on an adventure.The world can come to youMe: Well and I know that you said that you kind of had the world come to you, right? Fiona: Correct, correct.Me: So what happened there?Fiona: What a great thing.Me: And how did you start that, actually?Fiona: My partner at the time was trying to work in Holland and travel. And I just said, “This isn't working, let me have a go”. I'd just had my second baby and he'd just stopped breastfeeding. And I opened up Retreat Biarritz, which is basically a detox retreat. I was running it from home, we had two studios that we'd built. People were staying in the studios and I was basically doing for them what I'd learnt to do when I was in the Sanctuary.So basically they're doing three day fast, colon cleanse, learning all about raw food. We did raw food kitchen. Then I used to take them hiking in the mountains, I used to take them to the beach, I took them to the hammam. We took them to the local markets. Just so that they could have a holiday experience while they were here.Me: That's fantastic, that's really great. Wow. So do you still...what do you do now? I know you do a lot of things, but do you still run the retreats now?Detox retreatsFiona: I still run the retreats for small groups of people. Sometimes individuals come, and again from all around the world. I mean I've had ladies from Greece, America, Australia, Russia. And they just find me, God knows how they find me. They come and they go, “I'd really like to come and work with you”. And I'm like, “OK do you just want a detox? I can just do a straight detox for you”.But at some point always the conversation comes up. They're in an old story or they're stuck, you know? 'I used to have a body like this' and 'I don't understand why my body does this'. And then the body whispering seems to sort of come in, and we have that intuitively guided conversation that helps them understand more about their body.Me: So then how does the body whispering work? Can you give us just sort of like a short, I don't know, a little brief idea?How body whispering worksFiona: Oooh, yeah, how does it work! Goodness me! Basically a lot of the ladies who come, they are stuck in a particular story. There's something that they haven't digested emotionally. It could be that they're feeling anger, but then I kind of go beyond that, what's under that. And if you're feeling anger or resentment and things, often what I'm feeling is that people are feeling very disconnected. They're not feeling any connection to other people, but they're not feeling safe.So one of the main things I do is I help them to feel what it feels like to feel safe. And most people, they have no idea what their safe place feels like. When they can discover what their safe place feels like, you've almost got something to back into when things don't feel comfortable for you. When the shit's hitting the fan or you're at a dinner table or there's a conversation going on that you're not feeling comfortable with, you can kind of go, 'hang on a second, where am I?'Tuning into your bodyZone in – some people might call it being centered or whatever, but you zone in and tune into yourself. You get out of your thinking, analyzing, bulldozing head and you get into your body. So you reconnect with your body and you go, 'wow, there I am'.And it's like 'OK so what's kicking off at the moment? Does it have anything to do with me?' And your body is able to kind of respond to you when you understand how your body works. Your body would kind of say to you, “It's got nothing to do with you”.But you can pick up who it is in the room that's really got the energy, the strongest energy in the room that's affecting you. And you can say, 'OK so if that's the person, has what they've got going on got anything to do with me? No. Back off'. You can back off, you can get back in your own energy.How most of us calm our nervesWhat I found was I used to overeat. When I was in the company of my ex particularly. He had a very chaotic mind unless he was focused, he was ultra, ultra focused, but otherwise he was chaotic. Very argumentative, a devil's advocate. But when he was kicking off, I would find that I would overeat because I wanted to shut that off. Me: Oh wow, OK.Fiona: And I calmed down my nerves... The best and the quickest way to calm down your nerves when you're stressed is for a lot of people to eat. When we don't feel safe, we eat. And our body is protecting us by having the chemical reaction that goes on, the hormones that are released in the body, they lay down fat. That's the body protecting itself. Basically the adrenaline and everything that's going on...There are toxins that run through our body, and I didn't realize how overvigilant I was because of my childhood. Certain things that happened there. I didn't realize how overvigilant I was and how aware I was of feeling empathically what was going on around me. So my only way to control that was food.Discovering how you really feelThat doesn't really tell you what body whispering is. Body whispering for me, when I'm on a call with somebody, if I'm talking to them, I'm tuning in to them. So I can teach them how they feel. Basically ninety-nine percent of anybody who's around doesn't have a clue how they feel. They think, 'oh God that doesn't feel nice' but they automatically go into the thing that makes them feel better which is eating. Or drinking, or smoking, or shopping or whatever it is. I concentrate purely with people to do with food.So basically I can connect in with them and I'm saying “OK how do you feel about that situation?” And they go into their heads and they start describing it in mental ways. I'm like “OK fine, now bring yourself into your body because you're mentally describing and giving me mental feedback. Bring it back from your body. What are you feeling in your body?” And often they'll pick something up but I'm able to help them hone in to what the feeling really is so that they can recognize it the next time.Me: Yeah, I get it, you're teaching people basically how to...Fiona: Read their bodies.Me: Read their bodies, yeah. That's very cool.Fiona: And also what's happening to me is that when I'm reading their body... Even over Skype, it doesn't have to be live, even over Skype. I can say, “OK so I'm picking up...So a thought came to me, I've just been asked to ask you this question. What does this got to do with that?” or “Would this resonate with you?” So I'm allowing myself to be open that I'm picking up something for them.A body scan offerMe: Wow. And so I know that you have something pretty cool going on at the moment which is a body scan offer I think. Do you want to say something about that?Fiona: Yeah, I offer people if they're interested to find out what the undercurrent is that's going on through their body. So basically I help people understand the undercurrent that's going on. There's nothing more responsive to your thoughts than your body.That being said, if you don't know what you're thinking, then how can you possibly change your thoughts? So often people are saying mantras or they're saying positive thoughts. But the undercurrent that goes on behind that is often very subconscious. I call it on a soul level, when you have total disbelief on that ever happening for you. It could be to do with money, but I talk to people about their bodies.How it worksSo what I ask people to do if they're really interested is they can come forward and they can have a body scan. I can have half an hour with them, I ask them some questions. They're very kind of open, big questions that allow me to see where they're coming from. And for example what makes them really happy or really sad, and then I can gauge what's going on. I can gauge their stress levels, and I can feed back to them what's going on and what's the most likely reason things are not working for them. Even if they've been dieting and detoxing and exercising for years. But there's something going on in their bodies that they haven't allowed themselves to let go of. They're still hanging onto something and it's hanging onto their body.Me: And so if people want to know more about that, where's the best place for them to find you and to look at that offer?Where to find FionaFiona: OK I have my website which is fionarobertson dot co. And I don't know how we can do that, but...Me: Well I'll link to things in the show notes anyway.Fiona: Yeah, I'll send you a link to the body scan so that people can come through and they can test out the body scan. Basically have a very happy-go-lucky conversation with me. And yeah, just find out a little bit more about who you are and what your body's asking for, funnily enough. What she needs, what she wants and what she's lacking the most. And it's not nutrients on a vitamin and mineral scale, it's nutrients of other descriptions.Me: Wow super, OK. And is that a free consultation, or...?Fiona: Yeah.Me: OK. I thought so, I just wanted to make sure I said it because some people, that's...they'll want to know that. And then, yeah, hopefully...Well I'm sure that there'll be a lot of people interested in that because I mean I just think that's fascinating!Well thank you so much Fiona for being here to share your story!Fiona: Oh, thanks!Shed your baggageMe: It's been quite a...it's certainly given me a lot to think about around... Well around world travel, really, because I love travelling and I have travelled quite a bit. But I'm gearing up to do some more in the future with not very much baggage at all, so that's...Fiona: Oh, so nice to get rid of your baggage! And what a nice analogy as well, get rid of all your baggage!Me: Yup, all kinds of baggage! (laughs)So thank you so much for that inspiration. It's been really great to talk to you!Fiona: Thank you so much for inviting me, thank you so much.Me: You're very welcome, thank you, have a super, super day!The best travel foodRight, so fantastic! I hope you enjoyed that story. And I mentioned at the beginning of this episode that I'd share with you the best travel food that I know. And that food is...dates!Dates are an amazing food. They're easily portable, you can just pop some into a bag and put them in your suitcase. You can even carry them on a plane with you – at least as of today you can still do that. Properties of datesNow in terms of properties of dates, the first thing about dates is that they are amazing for the digestive system. This is because they are one of the best foods for getting rid of parasites. They basically bind onto and then help sweep away all kinds of nasty stuff: parasites, heavy metals, bad bacteria, viruses, fungus and especially Candida. And if you've got a tendency to constipation, dates can help there too.In addition, contrary to what you might think as they're very sweet, they're excellent for helping to balance blood sugar. The fruit sugar that they contain also helps feed the muscles and refuel the brain – so they're a great brain food too. As well as a great food for sport.And if you often feel stressed, dates can help you there as well. They contain almost 70 bioactive minerals that support the adrenals as they work to help us face various life challenges. On top of that, they've got a huge amount of amino acids which elevates their levels of potassium which in turn helps stop formation of excess lactic acid. Another good reason why they're really good for sport, as well as anti-stress.They're also said to be abundant in anti-cancer properties, particularly for abdominal cancer.And because dates are so high in nutrition, they can help with weight control. For example, some Muslims eat dates with water to break a fast before they eat anything else and one benefit to that is that it helps avoid overeating at that first meal which I think is really cool.Why dates are the best travel foodAnother very cool thing about dates is that if like Fiona you want to go on a travelling adventure and you're not quite sure about how you'll find food, some people say that a wrapped up date in your pocket or in your bag can act like a good luck travel charm. It can ensure you'll always find something to eat. Of course yes you can always eat the date itself, but some say that this little fruit can help you find more than that.For those who want to know what exact nutrients dates contain, well there are a lot. But the ones I'll mention here in addition to potassium are calcium, iron, phosphorus, sodium, magnesium and zinc, as well as vitamin K, vitamin A, thiamin, niacin and riboflavin. It's got loads of stuff.How to eat datesAs to how to eat dates, well you just grab a handful, right? Be sure though to remove the pit inside first please, we don't want an impromptu trip to the dentist. And just 4 to 6 dates a day can give you excellent benefits.They're also one of the key ingredients in many recipes for things like energy balls. So for example you can blitz some dates in a food processor with some nuts and maybe a bit of dried coconut for an instant snack. And if you'd like more recipes where you can indulge in their sweetness, I'll post the link to my 5-Minute Desserts recipe ebook below the show notes for this episode. Which brings us to the end of this week's story! I hope you enjoyed it!And if you've got a crazy, true story to share (and you'd like to know what food could have saved the day or enhanced your particular situation), I'd love to hear from you! If you enjoy my stories and want to hear more, join us and subscribe! I share one crazy yet true story a week. And if you've got any questions, just pop them in the comments! And if you're listening on iTunes, do give me a review, that would be awesome.I hope you have an amazing day, thank you so much for being here with me to share in my Clean Food, Dirty Stories. Bye for now!RESOURCESLink to 5-Minute Desserts and other recipe ebooks: https://rockingrawchef.com/5-minute-recipes/Article on dates including links to studies and other articles: https://www.organicfacts.net/health-benefits/fruit/health-benefits-of-dates.htmlFiona's website: www.fionarobertson.coFor your free Body Scan session, book a time with Fiona here: https://fionarobertson.acuityscheduling.com/Fiona's bioFiona Robertson, Author, Creator of the Home Detox Box, Retreat Biarritz, and a Body Whisperer intuitive holistic coach - supporting women as they release, reset and re connect with their bodies. I assist the body to consciously re constructing itself from the inside out, releasing the emotions and stress that cause the body to hold onto weight and create digestive and long lasting physical symptoms.

We're told about a game called Obliterate which BT have released on Prestel. You command a submarine and torpedo Argentinian submarines including one called "Fray Bentos". (You may have to look Prestel up on Wikipedia, it was like the internet but 1980). The phone lines are open for the Thameside listener charts. This week's chart is - 10:Layla/Derek and the Dominoes; 9:I Ran/Flock of Seagulls; 8:Nowhere Girl/B-Movie; 7:More Than This/Roxy Music 6:Fantastic Day/Haircut 100; 5:Is it a Dream/Classix Nouveaux; 4:Ghosts/Japan 3:The Damned Don't Cry/Visage; 2: Love Cascade/Leisure Process 1:Ever So Lonely/Monsoon. The broadcast is briefly introduced by Bob Edwards, but Paul James takes over. Paul has just come back from a working holiday in Cornwall, Sarah is also in the studio as is Ian the Engineer. After an hour (and a transmitter change) we get The Intrepid Birdman Show. There was a problem in the first 10 minutes with the batteries running flat in the cassette player. You can hear the the show sounding a bit slow. It then goes back up to speed. Dave tells us about the CB show at the Wembley conference centre which is relaying the broadcast. There is a pirate radio stand at the show. The first part of the show was broadcast from the Brentford tower blocks on Green Dragon Lane. This was used in 2014's "People Just Do Nothing" which started on YouTube and moved to BBC3 as the location for the fictional pirate Kurupt FM. Now Kurupt FM are real and playing festivals! Life imitating art imitating life. We learn that the site changes are done by "10-1 Teddy" and Ian the Engineer who has injured himself. There are brief moments during quiet patches of the songs where the transmitter switches off - the transmitter were designed to switch off quickly when the audio finished because it was the end of the show or when there was a transmitter change but they could be a bit enthusiastic and switch off briefly during a show! We're told about an experiment in 3D TV. However demand for the special glasses is so high they have had to delay the test to make some more. It will be broadcast on May 4th in a programme called "the Real World". 3D TV, 1982, maybe technology isn't moving on as quickly as we think. You can watch it here. After an hour with Paul and two with Dave this podcast  finishes at 10pm or so. But keep an eye on your podcast feed or the siteas  there is more to come on Thameside Radio Revisited from the same day and the next. We have Bob Edwards from later on this evening and the  Thameside Radio picnic from Harrow on the Hill the next day (it was Easter Monday). And finally: Did you know that the voice on the "Thameside Radio Plays Good Music" is one of Dave's children? Recorded in Hyde Park during an OB! Dedications and letters from Robert, Mike of Chalfont, the Intrepid Birdman Appreciation Society, Andrew Pearce from Hindhead, Steve Scribbler, John H, Richard, Annette, Dave and Pete. Hugh Gunning, John of Edgware, Bill Popstar, Tom Grady, Lynne Steele, Wendy and Cathy from Frank Kennedy from Norwood Green who gets a kiss from Sarah.  Paul Marshall (age 13) from Chalfont st. Giles. Chalfont Secondary School

The artist Maria Catharina Prestel (also Mary Cathrine Prestel), who worked in collaboration with her husband Johann Gottlieb Prestel, had a remarkable success in Germany with the so-called „Prestel prints“. Both artists have devoted their work to the reproductive print after drawings by other artists of miscellaneous times, for example drawings of Durer, Raffael or Parmigianino, which they were able to „imitate in drawing manner pretty much as drawings themselfs“. The aim of this work was the reconstruction and analysis of the whole works of Maria Catharina Prestel. On the base of a complete catalogue of her prints, which was produced for the very first time, it was possible to prove that the artist has executed more than half of all facsimile-prints of the „illustrated books“ produced by her and her husband. It can be stated without any doubt that the Prestel had equal rights within the studio production. This fact was not to be taken for granted for female artists within the 18th century. The systematic analysis of single sheets allows to not only assess her technical abilities but also to give a representative overview of her reproductive prints both after drawings and after paintings, which she began to create after the separation from her husband and her move to London. The analysis of Prestel’s complete engraving work provides a valuable contribution to the research of female artists in Germany as well as to the research of reproductive prints in the 18th century.

The artist Maria Catharina Prestel (also Mary Cathrine Prestel), who worked in collaboration with her husband Johann Gottlieb Prestel, had a remarkable success in Germany with the so-called „Prestel prints“. Both artists have devoted their work to the reproductive print after drawings by other artists of miscellaneous times, for example drawings of Durer, Raffael or Parmigianino, which they were able to „imitate in drawing manner pretty much as drawings themselfs“. The aim of this work was the reconstruction and analysis of the whole works of Maria Catharina Prestel. On the base of a complete catalogue of her prints, which was produced for the very first time, it was possible to prove that the artist has executed more than half of all facsimile-prints of the „illustrated books“ produced by her and her husband. It can be stated without any doubt that the Prestel had equal rights within the studio production. This fact was not to be taken for granted for female artists within the 18th century. The systematic analysis of single sheets allows to not only assess her technical abilities but also to give a representative overview of her reproductive prints both after drawings and after paintings, which she began to create after the separation from her husband and her move to London. The analysis of Prestel’s complete engraving work provides a valuable contribution to the research of female artists in Germany as well as to the research of reproductive prints in the 18th century.

The artist Maria Catharina Prestel (also Mary Cathrine Prestel), who worked in collaboration with her husband Johann Gottlieb Prestel, had a remarkable success in Germany with the so-called „Prestel prints“. Both artists have devoted their work to the reproductive print after drawings by other artists of miscellaneous times, for example drawings of Durer, Raffael or Parmigianino, which they were able to „imitate in drawing manner pretty much as drawings themselfs“. The aim of this work was the reconstruction and analysis of the whole works of Maria Catharina Prestel. On the base of a complete catalogue of her prints, which was produced for the very first time, it was possible to prove that the artist has executed more than half of all facsimile-prints of the „illustrated books“ produced by her and her husband. It can be stated without any doubt that the Prestel had equal rights within the studio production. This fact was not to be taken for granted for female artists within the 18th century. The systematic analysis of single sheets allows to not only assess her technical abilities but also to give a representative overview of her reproductive prints both after drawings and after paintings, which she began to create after the separation from her husband and her move to London. The analysis of Prestel’s complete engraving work provides a valuable contribution to the research of female artists in Germany as well as to the research of reproductive prints in the 18th century.