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Explorers Series: Brian Shimkovitz’ Awesome Tapes From Africa

Basically, Brian Shimkovitz loves African music so he loves cassettes. For a long time, the cassette tape has been the popular musical format of African musicians, and on multiple trips around Africa, Shimkovitz amounted a … read more »

POSTED January 5, 2011 12:00PM IN FADER TV Comments (1) TAGS: , , ,
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Explorers Series: MNDR

For episode seven of our Belkin Explorers Series, we interviewed one of the biggest bosses on the DIY music front. Her name is Amanda Warner, but you may know her as the how-do-you-pronounce-it MNDR.  (It’s … read more »

POSTED December 16, 2010 2:00PM IN ART + CULTURE CHANNEL TAGS: , ,

Explorers Series: Aaron Koblin

Aaron Koblin describes himself as half nerd/half art geek, but anyone associating those two adjectives with the old junior high put-downs better think again. It is now a well-known fact that nerds will inherit the … read more »

POSTED December 9, 2010 12:30PM IN ART + CULTURE TV INTERVIEWS TAGS: , ,

Explorers Series: Alexi Wasser of I’m Boy Crazy

“The internet is really great because that’s where I do all my cyber dude trawling,” says Alexi Wasser of Imboycrazy.com. Wasser’s site is itself one of the reasons the internet is really great, with full … read more »

POSTED December 2, 2010 1:54PM IN ART + CULTURE TV INTERVIEWS Comments (4) TAGS: , , ,

Explorers Series: Red Bucket Films

For the fourth installation of our Belkin Explorers Series, we took a trip down to the Red Bucket Films headquarters—a fort-like construction that our nine year-old selves would have loved. Heck, our twenty-something-selves love it … read more »

POSTED November 24, 2010 2:00PM IN ART + CULTURE TV INTERVIEWS TAGS: , , ,

Explorers Series: Casey Neistat

The first thing you see in the Neistat office is rows of cords against the wall, running out to a huge array of light bulbs. Casey Neistat did that himself, as he did with most … read more »

POSTED November 17, 2010 1:00PM IN ART + CULTURE TV INTERVIEWS TAGS: , , , ,

Explorers Series: Gary Shteyngart

With a library book is pretty much the most archaic way to read anything in 2010 (though there are probably some urban woodsman learning how to do hieroglyphics). But that’s a lot of how we … read more »

POSTED November 10, 2010 3:30PM IN ART + CULTURE TV INTERVIEWS TAGS: , , ,

Explorers Series: Outlier

Abe Burmeister and Tyler Clemens used to regularly ride their bikes into the city only to arrive at a bar or office drenched in sweat and all frumpy-looking. So they decided to do something about … read more »

POSTED November 3, 2010 2:30PM IN STYLE TV INTERVIEWS TAGS: , , , ,