18 March 2016
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Photographer Simon Ponder joins Kevin and Stephen to settle the Film v. Digital debate once and for ALL, and you’ll never guess who wins…
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Agfa, Apple, art, cameras, Canon, Christopher Nolan, cinematography, debate, digital, Feronia, film, Fuji, Hasselblad, Kevin, Kickstarter, light, movies, MST3K, Nikon, photography, Polaroid, Project Greenlight, realism, religiosity, Rian Johnson, Simon, Star Wars, Stephen, Steve Yedlin, Tangerine, THX1138, Zencastr
06 January 2015
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Our annual New Years show! How did we do in 2014? And what do we expect for 2015? Listen to find out! Special guest Matt Legler.
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Apple Pay, Apple Watch, Attack on Titan, Austin, Bitcoin, Black Mirror, blockchain, Boing Boing, books, cable, Capital in the 21st Century, Christopher Nolan, Coin, cold brew coffee, cord cutting, Cory Doctorow, economics, Edward Snowden, EFF, EFF-Austin, encryption, Ethereum, Franklin Barbecue, Fred Wilson, Friends, Google Fiber, Google Glass, GoPRO, Gravity’s Rainbow, Homeland, Infinite Jest, Internet of Things, Interstellar, Jack Conte, Java, Kevin, Kickstarter, law, Let’s Encrypt, Linguistic Labyrinth, Lyft, Matt, Matt Damon, Narrative Clip, Net Neutrality, Netflix, New Years, Nymi, Patreon, payment processing, PBS Idea Channel, Planet Money, podcasts, Pomplamoose, privacy, quantified self, RadioLab, Robert Bapst, security, Security Now, Serial, sharks, Sony Hack, Stephen, Steve Gibson, surveillance, The Circle, The Internet, They Might Be Giants, This American Life, Thomas Piketty, tokenized payments, Turkish coffee, Uber, Ulysses, Veronica Mars, wearables
08 December 2014
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Kevin and Stephen riff on absurdism, Too Many Cooks, and the fuzzy lines between postmodernism and poststructuralism (if they exist at all)
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A Bit of Fry and Laurie, absurdism, Adult Swim, Christopher Nolan, context, Dada, David Letterman, Doctor Who, film, Internet, Interstellar, Iron Man 3, meaning, Memento, Net Neutrality, Network culture, PBS Idea Channel, postmodernism, poststructuralism, Samuel Beckett, Star Wars, Theatre of the Absurd, Too Many Cooks, Transformers, Under Construction, virality, Waiting for Godot
25 November 2012
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
When James Bond isn’t busy fighting himself nowadays, he’s busy being the blandest (or the boldest) he’s ever been in the franchise. But how much “Bond” is too much for Bond? If the last 50 years have shown us anything, it’s that the perfect mix of Bond-i-ness may be more complex than shaking a martini. After seeing the unfortunately-named Skyfall, Kevin and I had some thoughts to share on this beloved series. So put on your best suit and hop in an Aston Martin, it’s time for some Philosophy. Bad Philosophy.
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343 Studios, 50 Years of James Bond The Movie, artificial intelligence, Bond vs. Bond, Bungie, Casino Royale, Christopher Nolan, cinematography, Cloud Atlas, Dan Arieli, Daniel Craig, David Fincher, David Lynch, Die Another Day, Disney, ethics, film, Gore Verbinski, Halo 4, Inception, James Bond, Judy Dench, Kevin, komodo dragon, LucasFilm, Marathon, movies, ONI, Pierce Brosnan, Pirates of the Caribbean, Predictably Irrational, Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, Star Wars, Stephen, The Avengers, The Wachowskis
30 July 2010
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Recently the wild and brilliant imagination of Christopher Nolan brought forth a true gem of a movie, Inception. It’s been making good money and getting rave reviews all around, and for good reason. It’s a heady and philosophical and hence right up our rabbit trail. This time Kevin Saunders and Kiki Canon joined me to […]
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Alamo Drafthouse, allegory of the cave, Batman Begins, Brick, CGI, Christopher Nolan, consequentialism, David Fincher, dreams, emotion, epistemology, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, ethics, Fight Club, Groundhog Day, happiness, Hollywood, ideas, Inception, Insomnia, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Kevin, Kiki, Leonardo DiCaprio, LOST, lucid dreams, M. Night Shyamalan, Memento, movie pickles, movies, perception, phenomenology, Plato, reality, Rifftrax, Spiderman, Stephen, The Dark Knight, The Matrix, The Prestige, The Sixth Sense, The Social Network, US Postal Service, zombies, zombocalypse
