{"id":297,"date":"2012-01-23T09:18:59","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T17:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=297"},"modified":"2012-01-23T09:18:59","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T17:18:59","slug":"introducing-audio-and-video-previewing-and-on-thursday-kickstarting-notebook-on-cities-and-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=297","title":{"rendered":"Introducing, audio- and video-previewing, and (on Thursday) Kickstarting Notebook on Cities and Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I give you The Marketplace of Ideas<\/em>‘ replacement, and the next evolutionary stage of my grand project to deliver cultural conversation of the depth you demand: Notebook on Cities and Culture<\/em>, debuting February 2012. Well, scheduled<\/em> to debut in February 2012, anyway.<\/p>\n

In the new show, I’ll sit down twice a week with cultural creators, internationalists, and observers of the urban scene for long-form conversations recorded all over Los Angeles and beyond. Guests scheduled so far include writers, sound artists, comedians, broadcasters, critics, bloggers, and people with careers so self-styled that labels fail me. (Locations so far include homes, offices, libraries, tar pits, and a Denny’s in the middle of the night.)<\/p>\n

But before Notebook on Cities and Culture<\/em> makes its entrance, we’ll need to do some fundraising. You know Kickstarter<\/a>, right? It’s that service people have been using to fund projects like (and here I quote their own front page) “balloon mapping kits,” “earth-banked aging rooms,” and “graphic novel about a guy who views himself as a troll and is in love with his best friend’s girlfriend.” The good people at Kickstarter have approved Notebook<\/em>‘s first season of three months and 24 interviews as a fundable project, and its week-long campaign for $999 <\/strong>in production money begins this Thursday, January 26.<\/p>\n

One of Kickstarter’s advantages, one I would suspect has helped it grow so widely used, is that, if a campaign doesn’t reach its goal, nobody who’s pledged pays anything. (Good for those who pledge, anyway; perhaps less good for those of us who’ve, uh, had trouble with listener mobilization before.) More details on all this will come soon. In the meantime, give this brief video about Notebook on Cities and Culture<\/em> a watch, listen to a couple<\/a> clips<\/a> from the\u00a0new show, and, now more than ever, try not to get laid off:<\/p>\n

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