Since Victorian times, Christmas has traditionally been the time of year to gather around a log fire, turn the lights down low and indulge in a Ghost Story. Every year - journalist and broadcaster Jon Briggs (also known as the original voice of Siri in the UK) has recorded a haunted tale - thrilling enough to freeze your mulled wine and send shivers down the back of Santa's neck. These tales of the supernatural are collated here for your delectation and delight from 2015 onwards. You will re ...
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These days anyone can be a broadcaster simply by using their smartphone - but there is an art to doing it properly. Broadcaster and journalist Jon Briggs (the original voice of Siri in the UK) talks to professional broadcasters about what it takes to make a living On The Air.
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ELAINE'S COOKING FOR THE SOUL is a post-apocalyptic cooking podcast. This sci-fi comedy series is hosted by Elaine Martínez, DDS, in her dental clinic. Each week she brings on a guest to cook up a shelf-stable, nutrient-dense recipe to share with the survivors of the recent nuclear event. The recipes are real, the world is fictional...for now. Written by Allison Slice and featuring Rosa Delgado as Elaine. Produced by between buildings production
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This podcast centers on my research and understanding of color, color usage, and optics as they relate to theories of human color perception in the making of visual art and design. By Ed Charbonneau, an artist (drawing & painting focus), and an adjunct faculty member in the Foundation and Fine Arts Departments at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. (Content expressed does not reflect the views of the Minneapolis College of Art & Design)
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Producer & host Chion Wolf introduces you to Connecticut residents - and visitors - who are on the LGBTQIAP+ spectrum. You’ll hear stories about their work, their lives, their love, and their passions.
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S3 E5 @ratpoison's (Not-Poisoned) Portobello Mushrooms
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In this thrilling episode, Elaine Martínez, DDS, takes us deeper into post-apocalyptic Griffith Park, where she encounters the scrappy and resourceful @ratpoison. As they navigate the lively and chaotic Fission House, Elaine and @ratpoison collaborate on an unexpected culinary creation: a savory and sweet marinade for Portobello mushrooms. The epis…
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Episode 4 is here, and we're thrilled to have you with us. In the heart of post-apocalyptic Los Angeles, our favorite dentist-turned-podcaster, Elaine Martínez, DDS, is at it again. This week, Elaine continues venturing through Griffith Park, appreciating its post-nuclear beauty and reminiscing about the past. Along her journey, she encounters a fa…
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Greetings, resilient listeners! We've journeyed together to this climactic third and final season. Chapter 3 is here, and we're thrilled to have you with us. In the heart of post-apocalyptic Los Angeles, our favorite dentist-turned-podcaster, Elaine Martínez, DDS, is at it again. This week, Elaine ventures into Griffith Park, appreciating its post-…
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Welcome back, survivors! We've made it to our third and final season. The last ride. We're glad you're here. In the heart of post-apocalyptic Los Angeles, our favorite dentist-turned-podcaster, Elaine Martínez, DDS, is at it again. This week, Elaine finds herself at the bustling black market ration swap in Griffith Park, ready to uncover culinary d…
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Welcome back, survivors! We've made it to our third and final season. The last ride. We're glad you're here. In the heart of post-apocalyptic Los Angeles, our favorite dentist-turned-podcaster, Elaine Martínez, DDS, is at it again. In our final-season opener, Elaine finds herself reminiscing about the good old days (you know, dodging bombs and livi…
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Elaine's back for one last deliciously daring season! Join us on June 20th for the premiere of the third and final season of Elaine's Cooking for the Soul. Elaine, our favorite dentist-turned-foodie, is cooking up a revolution in LA. Tune in for laughs, love, and a hearty helping of resistance against the far-right fascist regime. It's a good time …
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The final episode of Season 3. A reflection on the past three seasons. The Book of Colour Concepts, Alexandra Loske and Sarah Lowengard, Taschen 2024 Color Theory: A Critical Introduction, Aaron Fine, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021 Magenta + Green = Blue? Instagram video reel Black Flag, TV Party, 1982 Send us a Text Message. Please find more informa…
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Interview with Gamma Jeanne; a departure from our more in-depth discussions of color theory. Jeanne's career as an artist spans over nine decades and includes working with acrylic paints in the 1940s and being at the center of department store design in the 1950s. Our conversation is wide-ranging as it addresses an artist's inner drive to create an…
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CNN online article: Wear red and green to experience the Purkinje effect during the total solar eclipse Send us a Text Message. Please find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.By Ed Charbonneau
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Interview with Luanne Stovall: A New 21st Century Color Literacy Paradigm
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Luanne Stovall is an artist and color theorist with an MFA in painting from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. She attended the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture (New York City), and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (Skowhegan, Maine). Luanne is a member of the Steering Committee of…
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Interview with Suyao Tian: A Journey into Color
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A conversation with artist, Suyao Tian exploring her process as a painter and her personal approaches to using color. Please find more information related to this episode here. Send us a Text Message. Please find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.By Ed Charbonneau
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Interview with Jon Reischl: Memory, Perception, and Experience
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A conversation with Jon Rieschl. Please find additional resources to this episode here. Jon Reischl is a visual artist and designer specializing in mixed-media and oil painting. He has shown work locally in the Twin Cities and the greater metro area as well as regionally at venues throughout the Midwest. A graduate of St. Paul’s College of Visual A…
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Christmas 2023 - We Wish You a Scary Christmas
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Send us a Text Message. Thank you for taking the time to download and listen to this year's scary festive tale. It's a real cracker this year- and you don't even have to wear the paper hat! The Tale of the Monkey's Paw in it's original form, as written by W.W. Jacobs, is a "3 wishes" story with a cautionary tale enclosed. Although subsequently made…
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Interview with Sebastián Wilson: The Mystery of Color
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Sebastián Wilson is a photographer living in Santiago, Chile. He studied architecture which has a clear influence on his work both on the graphic sense, and on the way he observes and portrays light. For links and resources related to this episode, please see the Chromosphere episode webpage. Send us a Text Message. Please find more information to …
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Interview with Dr. David Briggs: Understanding and Applying Colour
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Dr. David Briggs has been teaching classes on colour for more than 20 years, and currently teaches colour, drawing and painting at the National Art School and the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. For links and resources related to this episode, please see the Chromosphere episode webpage. Send us a Text Message. Please find more informa…
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Interview with Jeremy Szopinski: Abstract Landscape Painting
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I interview painter Jeremy Szopinski who is a good friend and longtime studio mate. For more information about the podcast and Jeremy's artworks, check out this website link. Send us a Text Message. Please find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.By Jeremy Szopinski
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Mary Gartside and the Colour Ball: A Correction
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The final episode of Season 2; includes a correction to the Mary Gartside episode from Season 1. The first version of this episode erroneously stated a connection between Mary Gartside and the writing of Johann von Goethe. This new episode was recorded as a correction and published on April 24, 2023. Mary Gartside was a painter, teacher, and color …
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Focal Points and the Roots of Abstraction, part 1
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Part one of a reading of an essay I am writing, Focal Points and the Roots of Abstraction. Human color vision adapts to the changing environment in many ways. Pupils dilate and constrict in order to regulate the amount of light entering the eye. The lens either bunches up or flattens out to change its shape while focusing light wavelengths along th…
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Are nearly all the cars and trucks in your area either red, white, gray, or black? Discussion of red colors pairing to neutral colors as a color scheme. Send us a Text Message. Please find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.By Ed Charbonneau
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A review of a listener letter. Send us a Text Message. Please find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.By Ed Charbonneau
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A walk through the grocery store in search of the analogous split-complementary color scheme as well as other palettes. Send us a Text Message. Please find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.By Ed Charbonneau
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Christmas 2022 - Do You Hear What I Hear?
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Send us a Text Message. I'm so pleased you have returned for this year's Christmas Ghost Story. Written by a master of the supernatural - Algernon Blackwood. We last read his work in 2015. As well as being a prolific ghost story writer, he also happens to be a master of my own profession - broadcasting. In this year's tale, our hero is a 4th year s…
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Part 3 of 3: The final installment, A New Canon, places the work of color theorists, Mary Gartside and Emily Noyes Vanderpoel in historical context so as to examine how their inclusion (and by extension, additional underrepresented color theorists and practitioners) may help us to understand how we may expand our contemporary approaches to color us…
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Part 2 of 3. In this episode, I read the middle portion of an essay I have written, which could become a chapter in a future publication. (Read in three parts.) Abstract: This essay charts how the term harmony came to be used by European and North American artists, designers, and educators as a qualitative descriptor of color usage and design. Orig…
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Part 1 of 3. In this episode, I read the beginning of an essay I have written, which could become a chapter in a future publication. (Read in three parts.) Abstract: This essay charts how the term harmony came to be used by European and North American artists, designers, and educators as a qualitative descriptor of color usage and design. Originati…
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Welcome to Season 2! This episode features a correction on the first episode of Season 1, followed by the continued investigation of how red, yellow, and blue became known widely as primary colors. Send us a Text Message. Please find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.By Ed Charbonneau
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2.13 Sam and Jo's Peanut Butter Protein Balls
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Please read on for a full disclaimer/content warnings. Welcome to the Season 2 finale of Elaine's Cooking Podcast for the soul, a post-apocalyptic cooking podcast for survivors and thrivers! Today we still have Jo, we're now joined by Courier and Sam, and we even have a little leftover peanut butter. Pretty lucky, all things considered. **DISCLAIME…
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Please read on for a full disclaimer/content warnings. Welcome to the Season 2 finale of Elaine's Cooking Podcast for the soul, a post-apocalyptic cooking podcast for survivors and thrivers! Today we are with Johanna Meyer, who is helping us cook up a delicious Thai-ish noodle dish. Things are...not great. But hey, we have peanut butter. **DISCLAIM…
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Green: Are There More Greens than Any Other Color?
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The final episode of Season 1. I explore whether or not there are more variations of color within the hue of green; more than those of the other hue color families. Thank you for listening to Season 1! Send us a Text Message. Please find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.By Ed Charbonneau
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S2 E11 Courier’s Strawberry Spinach Salad
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What a joy it is to be joined by our favorite teen duo Fran and Sidney! Although salad might not seem all that romantic, this is an episode after our own heart. Tell us what an ideal date food is, and what you performative actions you’ve done to subtly woo someone who may or may not like you back. And no hate to Trader Joe’s, just to their dijon mu…
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Discussion of the impact of telescopes on the development of color theory. Also linear & aerial perspective in relation to depth and space, and what any of that has to do with the newly-launched James Webb Space Telescope. Send us a Text Message. Please find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.…
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S2 E10 Beryl Briggs’s Potato Leek Soup (feat. Jon Gabrus)
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Hope you enjoy a delightful potato leek soup recipe from our grumpiest anarchist yet, Beryl Briggs. While many of our recipes are, how to put this…weird and terrible? This recipe is tried and is a perfect winter staple. Let us know if you try it out! Shoutout to our friends Georgie Romero is Done For for providing Beryl’s name! Written and Directed…
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Discussion of the work of Emily Noyes Vanderpoel and her book, Color Problems: A Practical Manual for the Lay Student of Color, of 1903. Discussion centers on where I see her concepts in relation to those of Johannes Itten and Josef Albers. Send us a Text Message. Please find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.…
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Because bread is still hard to come by, we’re going with banh mi bowls for this week. This week, locally famous diggers Sal and Wynn stop by to help with a community skill-share happening in the underground bunker community. Our favorite Courier is still missing, but the show goes on. Written and Directed by Allison Slice Produced by Period Podcast…
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Discussion of additive spectral color mixing and how our perception of purple may be the result of our minds experiencing a negative green. Send us a Text Message. Please find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.By Ed Charbonneau
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Christmas 2021 - God Rest Ye Frightened Gentlemen
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Send us a Text Message. Welcome back for this year's Christmas Ghost Story. Written by William Wymark Jacobs in 1897, an author best known for his horror story The Monkey's Paw. This story reveals the tale of Jerry Bundler and the long term effects of his visit to a tavern, that still casts a shadow over revellers celebrating Christmas 80 years lat…
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Discussion of how afterimages occur when the cones of the retina tire and weaken due to overstimulation, allowing other cones to briefly play a more dominant role in vision, and how that lead to the establishment of complementary colors. Send us a Text Message. Please find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.…
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Buckeyes Roasting on an Open Fire: A Holiday Special
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It’s the holiday season, and we’re so glad you’re here—even if the holidays aren’t really your thing. We hope you call a friend, treat yourself to a nice meal or two, and find plenty of rest. We’ll see you in the new year. Written by Allison Slice Directed by Rosa Delgado Produced by Period Podcast Network If you want to support this network you ca…
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Color Theory Wars 2: The Philosopher (Schopenhauer) vs the Poet (Goethe) and the Physicist (Newton)
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Discussion of Arthur Schopenhauer and Phillip Otto Runge's ideas about color vision and color harmonies, and how they may have impacted the teaching of color theory at the Bauhaus art school, in Germany in the early 20th Century. Send us a Text Message. Please find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.…
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A perfect day for a Nasty Jane. Thanks for meeting us where we're at, imperfections an all. Huge thanks to Allen H for following us on Twitter and providing some excellent names to choose from for this season! Written by Allison Slice Directed by Rosa Delgado Produced by Period Podcast Network If you want to support this network you can find and fo…
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The Courier Council Minisode (featuring Period Podcast Network)
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Thank you to everyone who contributed their voice to this minisode. Thank you to Cindy Mizell and Makenzie Mizell and Rosa Delgado. Sara Bazan of Comadres Y Comics, to AM Davies of Yes, a Stripper Podcast, to Nicky Urban and Kate Segal of Comedy Girl Crush, and to Judith Kargbo and Coradata McCloud of Tinsel Town Tea. Each of these podcasts are so …
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Discussion of the speed of light, polarization, glare, mirages, and what any of that has to do with Michelangelo. (See cangiantismo and shot silk.) Send us a Text Message. Please find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.By Ed Charbonneau
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This week our Courier steps out of the shadows and we are whipping up a micro batch of banana muffins as best we can. Don’t tell The State. Written by Rosa Delgado and Allison Slice Directed by Allison Slice Produced by Period Podcast Network Edited by Allison Slice Starring Rosa Delgado as Elaine Raechel Wong as the Courier Find us on Instagram: @…
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Discussion of how our perception of blues and greens remain strong in low light, and how that may have impacted the use of lapis lazuli (and other blue pigments) prior to the invention of the electric light bulb. Send us a Text Message. Please find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.…
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This week we are thrilled to be cooking up something special! This character’s name was brought to us by August McLaughlin of Girl Boner Radio. August has been an incredible supporter of not only Elaine’s but of the Period Podcast Network, and she recently co-authored a book with Jamila Dawson called With Pleasure Managing Trauma for More Vibrant S…
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Why did Homer repeatedly describe the color of the ocean as wine-dark in the Iliad and the Odyssey? Could the sky have been purple or violet in the days when Helen and Achilles lived in mythological Ancient Greece? Discussion will focus on the possible ways in which the ocean could have been similar in color to that of a nice Cabernet Sauvignon or …
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It's our first cocktail recipe ever! Seems fitting that we'd choose a drink that could also serve as a meal. This Bloody Mary recipe was honed in real life by series creator Alli Slice. Is it the best BM you'll ever have? We think so! Bust out your Dolly Parton mug, pour vodka to taste (optional), and add a celery stick for garnish (if you're livin…
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Color Theory Wars 1: The Poet (Goethe) vs the Physicist (Newton)
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In Zur Farbenlehre (A Theory of Colours, or, A Doctrine of Colours) of 1810, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe worked to dismiss Newton’s findings of the nature of spectral light and sought a return to Aristotelian views of color. Why no love for Newton? This episode reviews Goethe's theories and how he introduced psychology to the understanding of human …
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Friendly gag warning for this episode! Not recommended listening to this while nauseous or if you possess a phobia of odd food combos. For us over here at Elaine's, it's always good to be boiling up some fresh oats with some old friends. We hope you enjoy the vibes if not the food (potential motto for the show?). Stick around through the credits fo…
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Chromostereopsis: Color Depth Perception & Focal Points
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Also known as vibrating colors or scintillating colors. Discussion of the chromostereopsis effect will explore how colors are perceived in 3-dimensional space, even when located on a 2-dimensional picture plane; how reds advance and blues recede. Send us a Text Message. Please find more information to each episode on the Chromosphere website.…
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