Time Sensitive The Slowdown
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- Sociedad y cultura
A podcast featuring candid, revealing long-form interviews with curious and courageous people about their life and work through the lens of time. Host Spencer Bailey speaks with leading minds on how they think about time broadly and how specific moments in time have shaped who they are today.
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Edwina von Gal on Gardening as an Antidote
The landscape and garden designer Edwina von Gal, founder of the Perfect Earth Project, discusses the meditative qualities of gardening; the importance of forming a symbiotic relationship with land and nature; reframing landscaping as “land care”; and why she doesn’t see herself as a steward of land, but rather as a collaborator with it.
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Hiroshi Sugimoto on Photography as a Form of Timekeeping
The Japanese photographer, artist, and architect Hiroshi Sugimoto discusses his pictures as fossilizations of time; seascapes as the least spoiled places on Earth; his enduring love for cooking, opera, and Japanese Noh theater; and why, for him, the “target of completion” for a building is 5,000 years from now.
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Ramdane Touhami on Why He Will Never Slow Down
The French Moroccan creative director, artist, and entrepreneur Ramdane Touhami, the creator of Hotel Drei Berge in the Swiss Alps and the co-founder of the cult grooming brand Officine Universelle Buly 1803, talks about the parallels between Japan and Switzerland, the healing power of mountains, business as a religion, and his upcoming journey from Paris to Tokyo by car along the Southern Silk Road.
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Viet Thanh Nguyen on the Need to Recognize Coexisting Truths
“The Sympathizer” author Viet Thanh Nguyen talks about turning his Pulitzer Prize–winning 2015 novel into a new HBO miniseries of the same name, the polarities between what he calls “narrative plenitude” and “narrative scarcity,” the fickle nature of memory, America as a mythology, and jokes as a form of truth-telling.
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Thaddeus Mosley on Making Art to Be Appreciated for Centuries
The 97-year-old Pittsburgh-based artist and sculptor Thaddeus Mosley talks about sculpting art out of wood for seven decades straight; the language that poetry, music, and sculpture all share; his early years as a sportswriter for a local newspaper; and his enduring affinity for the work of Constantin Brâncuși and Isamu Noguchi.
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Adam Pendleton on His Ongoing Exploration of “Black Dada”
The Brooklyn-based artist Adam Pendleton discusses the elusive, multifarious nature of his “Black Dada” philosophical framework; painting as a kind of technology; and why, for him, jazz is indefinable.