Desert Planes and Automobiles

I’ve just spent a fascinating day in the desert an hour and a half north of Los Angeles.
It was an Art Center College of Design field trip. First stop was a hangar-cum-workshop at the Mojave airport – officially, and very grandly, the Mojave Air and Space Port — where I met Jon Sharp, a charming, [...]

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Kurt on the Red Carpet

Attending the Oscar ceremony last night, I realized why the pre-show red-carpet rigmarole has become more and more a focus of the television coverage over the last decade or so: that’s the juiciest part of the quasi-official event, a reality-show The Day of the Locust without the apocalyptic ending.
First there’s the arrival by car through [...]

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Palm trees and power lines

Greetings from the other side of the Pacific Rim– Los Angeles! This winter/spring Kurt Andersen has a special residency at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, and we’ve got some LA-based stories and interviews in the works. I finally walked around my new nabe today in mid-city. (I’m calling it LaVicPic– near [...]

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See Kurt Become a Beautiful Girl

Blogger Lisa Katayama took Kurt to Tokyo’s girl haven: the sticker picture booth.

You can download the video here.

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We have a show!

We proudly present the complete Studio 360 in Japan episode! Listen here:

Check out our website for more Japan stories, video and photos.

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Ladies and Gentlemen…

Greetings from Studio 360’s home base in New York City!
After weeks of listening to tape and mixing (and remixing) our stories, we’re proud to post the first sounds of our trip to Japan. On this past week’s show, we broadcast an interview with the writer Pico Iyer in Nara Park (remember Bad Bambi?), a [...]

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