Garrett Tiedemann
@whitewhalepod.bsky.social
Mix Engineer/Sound Designer/Composer/Filmmaker. Trying to make things a little more human and a little more weird - one creative endeavor at a time. #AIRsters
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Seems about right to reshare this piece I did the first time around this attrocity. Unfortunately feels even more relevant now. americanresiduerecords.bandcamp.com/track/3-minu...
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A close listen to the history and evolution of the radio documentary feature, a hybrid form which can sometimes appear closer to music or poetry than to news reporting... www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00c7fd0
BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, The Ballad of the Radio Feature
A close listen to the history and evolution of the radio documentary feature.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
A close listen to the history and evolution of the radio documentary feature, a hybrid form which can sometimes appear closer to music or poetry than to news reporting... www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00c7fd0
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"Everything we've been doing for the past 30 years was a kind of warm-up for the moment we're in."
Jeffrey Goldberg interviews the Dropkick Murphys front man Ken Casey about punk, politics, and Donald Trump:
Jeffrey Goldberg interviews the Dropkick Murphys front man Ken Casey about punk, politics, and Donald Trump:
Ken Casey: ‘I’m Not Going to Shut Up’
A conversation with the Dropkick Murphys front man about punk, politics, and Donald Trump
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July 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
"Everything we've been doing for the past 30 years was a kind of warm-up for the moment we're in."
Jeffrey Goldberg interviews the Dropkick Murphys front man Ken Casey about punk, politics, and Donald Trump:
Jeffrey Goldberg interviews the Dropkick Murphys front man Ken Casey about punk, politics, and Donald Trump:
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At the heart of what we do remains a belief in radio's imaginative possibilities - audio that can reconfigure the world around us & sink into our dreams.
Dip into our archive of nearly 900 audio docs here www.fallingtree.co.uk/our-archive/
Dip into our archive of nearly 900 audio docs here www.fallingtree.co.uk/our-archive/
June 16, 2025 at 10:42 AM
At the heart of what we do remains a belief in radio's imaginative possibilities - audio that can reconfigure the world around us & sink into our dreams.
Dip into our archive of nearly 900 audio docs here www.fallingtree.co.uk/our-archive/
Dip into our archive of nearly 900 audio docs here www.fallingtree.co.uk/our-archive/
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35 yrs ago, Gremlins 2: The New Batch completely destroyed my brain in the best possible way. So, in honor of its anniversary today, I thought I’d celebrate this underappreciated gem of a sequel: thehorrorchick.substack.com/p/35-years-l...
Please check it out & shares/subs are appreciated! 🖤
Please check it out & shares/subs are appreciated! 🖤
35 Years Later: Gremlins 2: The New Batch Remains One of the Most Audacious Sequels Ever
"If you want to find something weird, you have to go downtown."
thehorrorchick.substack.com
June 15, 2025 at 5:48 PM
35 yrs ago, Gremlins 2: The New Batch completely destroyed my brain in the best possible way. So, in honor of its anniversary today, I thought I’d celebrate this underappreciated gem of a sequel: thehorrorchick.substack.com/p/35-years-l...
Please check it out & shares/subs are appreciated! 🖤
Please check it out & shares/subs are appreciated! 🖤
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I know it sounds weird but you should continuous-wave.beehiiv.com/p/go-to-a-st...
Go to a Steampunk Radio Museum 📻
A shrine filled with ancient audio gear will do you good. Wireless museums, which are scattered around the US and many other countries, are filled with restored and cleaned-up gear going back to the d...
continuous-wave.beehiiv.com
June 12, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I know it sounds weird but you should continuous-wave.beehiiv.com/p/go-to-a-st...
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governance based on fantasy is always bad governance.
June 11, 2025 at 11:22 AM
governance based on fantasy is always bad governance.
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“Yet, though the rise of video rentals shrank the public space of movies by keeping more viewers at home, the video store arguably expanded the public space of movies by its ubiquity, covering the commercial landscape much more densely than movie theatres did.”
Video Stores, Revival Houses, and the Future of Movies
The documentary “Videoheaven” and MOMA’s series “A Theater Near You” consider how people watch films and why it matters.
www.newyorker.com
June 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
“Yet, though the rise of video rentals shrank the public space of movies by keeping more viewers at home, the video store arguably expanded the public space of movies by its ubiquity, covering the commercial landscape much more densely than movie theatres did.”
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"Television was born without a conscience." — Norman Corwin
George Clooney just reminded us on CNN with Good Night, and Good Luck that history has a way of coming back. That montage at the end? Damn chilling and so damn real.
If you didn’t get a chance to see it here’s the montage:
If you didn’t get a chance to see it here’s the montage:
June 8, 2025 at 2:56 AM
"Television was born without a conscience." — Norman Corwin
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there are more of us than there are of them. way, way more.
June 8, 2025 at 2:26 AM
there are more of us than there are of them. way, way more.
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On the anniversary of D-Day, let’s remember - but not simplify - poet-soldier, ‘war hero’, ‘angry young man’ Keith Douglas. Killed in action 3 days after landing on Gold Beach in the first wave. This was made with @seanstreet.bsky.social 20yrs ago … soundcloud.com/fallingtreep...
Landscape With Figure
A documentary about World War Two's finest British poet, Keith Douglas, who was killed in action with the Sherwood Rangers in Normandy three days after the D-Day landings.
Presented by Sean Street, wi
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June 6, 2025 at 9:48 AM
On the anniversary of D-Day, let’s remember - but not simplify - poet-soldier, ‘war hero’, ‘angry young man’ Keith Douglas. Killed in action 3 days after landing on Gold Beach in the first wave. This was made with @seanstreet.bsky.social 20yrs ago … soundcloud.com/fallingtreep...
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Meet the remarkable New York City council member who sponsored and passed a resolution in support of the Living Wage for Musicians Act. Solidarity! @umaw.bsky.social @shahanafrombk.bsky.social
June 6, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Meet the remarkable New York City council member who sponsored and passed a resolution in support of the Living Wage for Musicians Act. Solidarity! @umaw.bsky.social @shahanafrombk.bsky.social
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“Much of the federal infrastructure that supports domestic violence programs is damaged or gone,” writes the professor Rachel Louise Snyder.
Opinion | Domestic Violence Support Is Unraveling
Funding cuts are harming domestic violence programs.
www.nytimes.com
June 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
“Much of the federal infrastructure that supports domestic violence programs is damaged or gone,” writes the professor Rachel Louise Snyder.
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“‘Listening to a series I’d recorded, I heard my character say a line – but it wasn’t my voice”
If you follow me, and you’re a manager, and you have been a party to Gen AI slop replacing humans, I have a question: how do you live with yourself?
If you follow me, and you’re a manager, and you have been a party to Gen AI slop replacing humans, I have a question: how do you live with yourself?
May 31, 2025 at 2:11 PM
“‘Listening to a series I’d recorded, I heard my character say a line – but it wasn’t my voice”
If you follow me, and you’re a manager, and you have been a party to Gen AI slop replacing humans, I have a question: how do you live with yourself?
If you follow me, and you’re a manager, and you have been a party to Gen AI slop replacing humans, I have a question: how do you live with yourself?
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“Screen Slate is doing the work—passionately, shaggily, without reservation or anxiety about audience and advertising. In fact, there is no on-site advertising, no paywall, and there never will be.”
Everyone’s Gone to the Movies
How the independent movie publication Screen Slate became indispensable—while defining what makes a good website in 2025.
www.ssense.com
May 30, 2025 at 6:07 PM
“Screen Slate is doing the work—passionately, shaggily, without reservation or anxiety about audience and advertising. In fact, there is no on-site advertising, no paywall, and there never will be.”
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“In a world where we’re constantly reminded that physical media is dead — that the future is just algorithms stomping our faces, forever — the fact that the Criterion Closet has gone viral suggests that all is not lost.”
@bilgeebiri.bsky.social
@bilgeebiri.bsky.social
Why Everyone Wants to Get Into the Criterion Closet
The ritual has become part of the fabric of modern cinephilia over the past decade and a half.
www.vulture.com
May 29, 2025 at 10:33 PM
“In a world where we’re constantly reminded that physical media is dead — that the future is just algorithms stomping our faces, forever — the fact that the Criterion Closet has gone viral suggests that all is not lost.”
@bilgeebiri.bsky.social
@bilgeebiri.bsky.social
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“A riveting, profoundly rewarding listen… @joedunthorne.bsky.social is a captivating storyteller”
A great review of Half-Life by @patricianicol.bsky.social in today’s @thetimes.com!
www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-r...
A great review of Half-Life by @patricianicol.bsky.social in today’s @thetimes.com!
www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-r...
My family’s escape from the Nazis — and the terrible secret I discovered
Joe Dunthorne’s fascinating podcast on BBC Sounds tells how the novelist learnt that his family’s stories of their flight from Germany hid a betrayal
www.thetimes.com
May 25, 2025 at 7:24 AM
“A riveting, profoundly rewarding listen… @joedunthorne.bsky.social is a captivating storyteller”
A great review of Half-Life by @patricianicol.bsky.social in today’s @thetimes.com!
www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-r...
A great review of Half-Life by @patricianicol.bsky.social in today’s @thetimes.com!
www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-r...
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Academic freedom in the United States has found itself periodically under siege, but the current attacks from the federal government raise a new level of alarm. nyer.cm/u405qvQ
May 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Academic freedom in the United States has found itself periodically under siege, but the current attacks from the federal government raise a new level of alarm. nyer.cm/u405qvQ
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I remember this – hit me like a ton of bricks
I didn’t know you could do this in a newspaper comic
Felt like I was watching a Hal Ashby movie
I didn’t know you could do this in a newspaper comic
Felt like I was watching a Hal Ashby movie
In "Doonesbury," Andy Lippincott died 35 years ago, on May 24, 1990. Andy was not only the first openly gay character in newspaper comics but also the first one to die of AIDS. Here is that strip and the ensuing sequence:
May 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I remember this – hit me like a ton of bricks
I didn’t know you could do this in a newspaper comic
Felt like I was watching a Hal Ashby movie
I didn’t know you could do this in a newspaper comic
Felt like I was watching a Hal Ashby movie
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In honor of Lincoln Center doing a weeklong dive into Jordan Peele's US, here's the Black Man Talk Steven Boone and I did on US when it came out. If you liked the SINNERS talk I did with @812filmreviews.com, you'll enjoy this.
bigmediavandal.blogspot.com/2019/04/blac...
bigmediavandal.blogspot.com/2019/04/blac...
May 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
In honor of Lincoln Center doing a weeklong dive into Jordan Peele's US, here's the Black Man Talk Steven Boone and I did on US when it came out. If you liked the SINNERS talk I did with @812filmreviews.com, you'll enjoy this.
bigmediavandal.blogspot.com/2019/04/blac...
bigmediavandal.blogspot.com/2019/04/blac...
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Kids, Grandpa Tobias is here to tell you about a time when lining up to see 35mm prints was called “going to the movies.”
NYC’s Film at Lincoln Center is celebrating Jordan Peele’s sophomore horror with a weeklong event of talks and double features - including never-before-seen 35mm presentations of US.
Jordan Peele’s US Screens In Never-Before-Seen 35mm At Weeklong Celebration In NYC
NYC’s Film at Lincoln Center is celebrating Jordan Peele’s sophomore horror with a weeklong event of talks and double features - including never-before-seen 35mm presentations of US.
dlvr.it
May 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Kids, Grandpa Tobias is here to tell you about a time when lining up to see 35mm prints was called “going to the movies.”
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how it was exactly, there is no telling now
May 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
how it was exactly, there is no telling now
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The skeleton dimensions I shall now proceed to set down are copied verbatim from my right arm, where I had them tattooed
May 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
The skeleton dimensions I shall now proceed to set down are copied verbatim from my right arm, where I had them tattooed
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A deep, settled, fanatic delirium was in his eyes.
May 18, 2025 at 12:47 AM
A deep, settled, fanatic delirium was in his eyes.
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finally some good news www.404media.co/the-universe...
The Universe Will Decay a Lot Sooner than Expected
This week, we have stories about wild horses, wild chimps, and wild cosmic deaths.
www.404media.co
May 17, 2025 at 5:11 PM
finally some good news www.404media.co/the-universe...