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edgar allen poe + james mason •

larry and sonia wright • billy collins + juan delcan •

chris wedge + tom waits + kathleen brennan •

jack kerouac + steve allen • lemon jelly •

chuck jones + robert morley •

charlie parker + dizzy gillespie

broadcast 15 june 2007

bohoTV | volume 1 • number 2

"The artist...knowing that he can never create anything on his own account, out of the top layers of his personal consciousness, he submits obediently to the workings of inspiration; and knowing that the medium in which we works has its own self nature, which must not be ignored or overridden, he makes himself its patient servant and, in this way, achieves freedom of expression." -Aldous Huxley

Advanced Notions (various)

formerly patsymooreDOTcoms Bonus Writings; insightful and inciting literature from artists and about art

Amsterdam Dispatch (Karin Bos)

an insider's look at the art scene and artist life in Amsterdam

The Art of Fiction (Peter Quinones)

reviews of timeless literature
author interviews

bohoTV (various)

noteworthy Arts-centric viral video

Cambridge Letters (Kym Cooper-Rodgers)

reports about art scenes abroad

(9/2004-12/2005)

Deleted Scenes (Stuart Chait)

a guide to the great cinema and television you're missing

Design Psychology (Jeanette Joy Fisher)

a look at how design elements contribute to happiness, well-being, and productivity

(7/2005-3/2007)

The Iraq Watch Papers (various)

observations on war and peace

(3/2003-7/2006)

Lessons in Creativity (Linda Dessau)

self-care tips for artists

London Letters (Shakila Taranum Maan)

reports about the London arts scene and design

On Books (Tim Haigh)

book criticism

Paris: Vie et Art (Francis Powell)

an insider's look at the art scene and artist life in The City of Light

Portrait of the Artist (various)

a gallery of work by compelling visualists

Rake on Music (Jamie Lee Rake)

your map to the music underground

Savor (Brian Parker)

a passionate survey of food and cooking

The Self Expressed (various)

creative writing

Special Assignment (various)

profiles and interviews

Tending the Planet (Alyssa Stebbing)

ruminations on social responsibility and spiritual life

Thus Spake Fred (Fred Clark)

smart, witty examinations of socio-political issues

transcripts from A Lovers Quarrel

(Dwight Ozard)

one man's documentation of his restless relationship with faith and culture

(6/2004-9/2005)

Verse (Jim Newcombe/John-Paul Gillespie)

poetry laid bare

Verse Live (various)

new poetry

The World Watch Papers (various)

inspections of matters impacting the globe

Write of Passage (Eboni Rafus)

journalings of a confirmed writer

Larry Wright Performs - NYC Subway (01:28) | Larry Wright is a well known New York City busker. He's credited as the first major drummer to use five-gallon plastic buckets in lieu of a traditional drum kit. Larry uses his foot to lift the buckets, thereby affecting their sound patterns. His wife, Sonia, drums with him, here.

"The Dead" (00:54) | U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins reads his poem "The Dead", set to animation by Juan Delcan, an internationally experienced live action director, who currently acts as Creative Director for New York-based Nola Pictures. Delcan's heart-thumping sequences have served television networks from Germany to Spain to the U.S.' PBS Kids and NBC. Not shy about expressing himself artistically, Juan’s illustration work is equally arresting and emotive; U2 took notice and commissioned it to be animated to provide the backdrop for the band's live performances of "Yahweh".

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The Dead

The dead are always looking down on us, they say.

While we are putting on our shoes or making a sandwich,

they are looking down through the glass-bottom boats of Heaven,

as they row themselves slowly through eternity.

They watch the tops of our heads moving below on earth,

and when we lie down in a field or on a couch,

drugged, perhaps, by the hum of a warm afternoon,

they think we are looking back at them,

which makes them lift their oars and fall silent and wait, like parents,

for us to close our eyes.

Bunny (07:16) | This animated short film by Chris Wedge won an Academy Award in 1998. It is featured on the Ice Age: Super Cool Edition 2nd DVD.

Plot: Baking alone in her kitchen, tattered old Bunny receives a troublesome late-night visitor—an insistent moth that stirs her fears and memories. Music is by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan.

Jack Kerouac Explains On the Road (09:29) | After an interview, Jack Kerouac, accompanied by pianist Steve Allen, reads his reason for writing.

"Nice Weather for Ducks" (03:57) | Lemon Jelly, the British electronica duo consisting of Nick Franglen and Fred Deakin, released this single in 2003. It rose to #16 on the UK pop chart.

The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics (09:59) | The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics is a book written and illustrated by Norton Juster, first published by Random House in 1963. The title is an obivious reference to Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, by Edwin Abbott Abbott.

In 1965, famed animator Chuck Jones and the MGM Animation/Visual Arts studio adapted The Dot and the Line into a 10-minute animated short film for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, narrated by Robert Morley. The Dot and the Line won the 1965 Academy Award for Animated Short Film. Five years later, Jones turned another Juster book into an animated feature film, The Phantom Tollbooth.

The Story: This is the anguished tale of a sensible straight line who falls in love with a dot. The dot, however, finding the line stiff, dull, and conventional, turns her affections toward a wild and unkempt squiggle. Though dejected, the line was not without determination, and, after much concentration, managed to bend himself, giving rise to shapes so complex he had to letter his sides and angles to keep his place. Before long, he was able to express himself in any shape he wished—from helices to spider webs to Paul Klee's little jester. Overwhelmed by the line's geometric contortionistic prowess, the dot realized that what she had seen in the squiggle to be freedom and joy was nothing more than chaos and sloth. Thence, the line and the dot lived "if not happily ever after, at least reasonably so".

The story, in Juster's words, "is a romance destined to take its place among the immortal works of our literature. But is it merely a poignant and exquisite evocation of an eternal theme? A sensitive, soul-searching examination of an essential problem? Or is it rather, in these uncertain times when man stands alienated from the very meaning of life, itself, more like a beacon—a shaft of light illuminating a path to some higher understanding? We doubt it."

Trivia: To give the squiggle in the animated cartoon adaptation an unkempt appearance, the animation drawings were inked on rice paper. The ink bled, creating a textured line that was then Xeroxed onto cel. (Copyright © 1965 MGM)

Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie perform "Hot House" (05:25) | rare footage of the two jazz greats playing the bebop standard by Tadd Dameron; "Hot House" was based on chords from Cole Porter's "What is This Thing Called Love?"

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