Side Conversations

On Stereotypes, Dialogue, and the “Danger of Potential”

The Seventh WaveJanuary 28, 2016

A Conversation with filmmaker Jay Dockendorf by Editor Joyce Chen To represent the complexity of the human condition in writing is no easy task; to attempt to capture the layered textures of a person onscreen is arguably even more difficult. Becau... Read More.

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On the Beauty of Uncertainty, Unknowing, and Being Wrong

The Seventh WaveJanuary 14, 2016

A Conversation with Flux Weekly Founder, Isaac Fornarola by Editor Joyce Chen To say that Isaac Fornarola, the founder of Flux Weekly, has a piercing clarity to his views on the world is a neutral statement — neither a positive nor a negative, but... Read More.

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Digitizing Possibility: A Library For All

The Seventh WaveJanuary 8, 2016

A Conversation with Isabel Sheinnman from Library For All by Editor Brett Rawson It's been over twenty years, but I still remember the sounds and images from the books I read as a child, or the ones that were read to me: Mortimer, Cat in the Hat, ... Read More.

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A Teaching Musician and Touring Teacher

The Seventh WaveJanuary 6, 2016

A Conversation with Violinist-Looper Joe Kye by Editor Brett Rawson When I think of musicians, I don't usually think of classrooms. But when I think of Joe Kye, the violinist-looper behind Joseph in the Well, I see a touring teacher and ... Read More.

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On David Foster Wallace, Argo, and Cinematic Information Gaps

The Seventh WaveJanuary 3, 2016

A Conversation with Film Critic Glenn Kenny by Editor Brett Rawson Back in July 2015, I decided I wouldn’t see The End of the Tour. I felt I had read enough of David Foster Wallace's work — his thickest books and sharpest essays — that I ... Read More.

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On Digital Conversations, Comment Threads, and Believing in the Effort to Try

The Seventh WaveDecember 14, 2015

A Conversation with Nadia Goodman, Social Media Director at TED by Editor Brett Rawson While listening to the news one morning last week, I realized something: a lot of real-life conversations have resorted to the rhetoric of the comment thread.... Read More.

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Engaging with the Flow

The Seventh WaveNovember 20, 2015

A conversation with Adventure Photographer, Matthew Van Biene by Editor Brett Rawson A few weeks ago, a laptop called my cell phone at eleven in the morning. It was Matt calling from his yurt in the woods, just outside of Mount Index in the Cascad... Read More.

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