Throughout 2011, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has been producing
Connections, a series of short audiovisual pieces in which various staff members talk about their favorite parts of the Met's vast holdings. The last of the 100 videos was posted today.
posted by Horace Rumpole
on Dec 28, 2011 -
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I'm a Runner. Yes, the interview series is best known for the
Sarah Palin cover, but
Runner's World has managed to snag quite a variety of famous pavement-pounders, including
Wait Wait host
Peter Sagal, Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist
Flea, singer
Shawn Colvin, Al Roker
Al Roker, Episcopal bishop
Katharine Jefferts Schori, HHS Secretary
Kathleen Sebelius, and
another Palin you may know and love.
posted by psoas
on Nov 18, 2011 -
24 comments
"Driving Jersey represents and reflects the most misunderstood and misrepresented place and people in all of America." In this series of calmly paced, short documentaries featuring profiles, atmosphere, landscape, and interviews, filmmakers
Steve Rogers and
Ryan Bott travel 21 counties to capture some of the true character and cultural nuance of the Garden State.
[more inside]
posted by Miko
on Sep 12, 2011 -
54 comments
The Madoff Tapes "One evening, my home phone rang. “You have a collect call from Bernard Madoff, an inmate at a federal prison,” a recording announced. And there he was." [more inside]
posted by zarq
on Feb 28, 2011 -
30 comments
"The writing process, Merwin says, is all about time and environment. He will be the first to tell you that poetry “is something before it is about something,” and that if you try to force a poem to take a stance, it is likely to choke: “I think a poem begins out of what you don’t know, and you begin not by having a good idea but by hearing something in the language.”"
A terrific interview with
U.S. Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin.
posted by liketitanic
on Nov 18, 2010 -
9 comments
Lost In The Garden of the World is a documentary shot at the 1975 Cannes film festival. It contains interviews with Paul Bartel, Tobe Hooper, Steven Spielberg, Werner Herzog, Martin Scorsese and Dustin Hoffman.
posted by brundlefly
on Nov 17, 2010 -
3 comments
Amy Sedaris has appeared as a frequent guest on Letterman (David Letterman's late night talk show in the US), usually delivering rapid-fire improvisation to a bemused Dave and Paul under the guise of an interview. With the magic of the internet,
some of these videos are now
on YouTube.
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posted by shadytrees
on Aug 5, 2010 -
34 comments
Bret Easton Ellis's new novel,
Imperial Bedrooms, a follow-up to his 1985 debut
Less Than Zero, will be released tomorrow. In the anticipatory run-up, Ellis reviews have been popping up everywhere:
Vice,
Movieline,
The Times,
New York Magazine,
The LA Times. In each interview, Ellis answers the door barefoot, offers the interviewer a Coke, and shows them his kitchen. LA Times writer
Carolyn Kellogg noticed that Ellis is giving
the same interview every time.
posted by shakespeherian
on Jun 14, 2010 -
85 comments
[MLYT] Reddit has been hosting some interesting and quite candid interviews with prominent public figures recently. Today they posted their session with
Dennis Kucinich. Previously:
Barney Frank,
Ron Paul, and
Mike Rowe (host of Dirty Jobs on Discovery). All questions created and voted on by the community.
posted by sophist
on Dec 14, 2009 -
19 comments
If you can't Ask MetaFilter, try asking
What Would Rob Do? In his
podcast, "NPR's Rob Sachs talks about life's sticky situations and how turn them into an opportunity for adventure, growth, or at the very least, laughter." Like
how to propose, or if that doesn't work, what to do when you
run into your ex (Mp3) (turns out being calm and collected beats out feigning not to have made eye contact), how to
talk to strangers (Mp3),
sing a lullaby (by interviewing Rob Springfield), or how to,
you know, avoid, um, Verbal Ticks. Each podcast episode is an interview with one kind of expert or another. Some posts also go on the
Monkey See blog as well as a
facebook fan page.
posted by pithy comment
on Sep 11, 2009 -
3 comments
Bob Claster was a DJ on KCRW in Los Angeles. In the 80's he had a comedy show called Funny Stuff and he would interview comedians. He has many of these interviews online as mp3s. He interviewed
Tom Lehrer,
Douglas Adams,
Danny Arnold (a.k.a. Barney Miller),
Peter Cook,
Terry Jones, two interviews with John Cleese,
one solo and
another with Michael Palin,
Emo Philips,
Billy Connolly,
Mort Sahl,
Quentin Crisp,
"Brother Theodore" Gottlieb,
June Foray and Bill Scott (a.k.a. Rocky and Bullwinkle and an epic
five-part interview with Stan Freberg, the subject of my
last post.
posted by Kattullus
on Mar 27, 2009 -
7 comments
The Highlights is an online arts journal. It consists of web-based projects and essays by artists. An example from the current issue,
Master of None, where the author posits that a new model of work for artists can exist, one where the artist retains agency while also getting paid to do complementary work which is informed by the subtlety, strangeness, and sure-footed temperament of the artist’s persona. Two years of journals in the
archives.
[more inside]
posted by netbros
on Mar 24, 2009 -
9 comments
Guitar Noise is a free guitar lesson website with hundreds of
articles, tips and reviews for students of this versatile instrument. Whether you are a beginner, a lefty, a bass player or a singer, Guitar Noise has
lessons on nearly everything and anything to do with the guitar. There are many talented musicians out there. The
artist profiles section includes interviews with dozens. The
forums,
blog and
podcasts help you keep up with this thriving community.
posted by netbros
on Feb 23, 2009 -
11 comments
The Drunken Boat publishes poetry from around the world, translations of poetry, reviews of poetry collections and anthologies, and interviews with well-known poets. The current issue features
Cave Canem poets, home for the many voices of African-American poetry and committed to cultivating the artistic and professional growth of African-American poets.
posted by netbros
on Feb 22, 2009 -
3 comments
The Archive of American Television "produces extensive video oral history interviews with television legends of all professions and makes them available online. To date, the Archive has completed over 2000 hours of videotaped conversations with over 570 Actors, Producers, Writers, Newscasters, Executives, Directors, Craftspersons, and more. ... The interviews are conducted by reviewing the subject's life and career chronologically. They discuss their childhood, early influences, how their career began, and thoroughly cover their television careers, ending with their thoughts on the industry and legacy."*
posted by not_on_display
on Nov 11, 2008 -
9 comments
Dalkey Archive conversations with
William Burroughs,
Angela Carter,
Robert Creeley,
William Gaddis,
William H. Gass,
Danilo Kis,
Harry Mathews,
Richard Powers,
Raymond Queneau,
Hubert Selby,
William T. Vollman,
David Foster Wallace, and
many other writers.
posted by Iridic
on Oct 12, 2008 -
9 comments
