The holidays bring up questions of home. Is your home created by geography, biology, language or something or someone else? In a global era, where do we belong most? Where and when do you not have to live in translation?

Guests:
•Tanene Allison became homeless as a teenager when she came out, she recently won an Emmy for her work at MTV
•digital nomad Ben Ceverny (kind user interface authority) has places in SF, Amsterdam and LA and friends he visits the world over, but lives mostly online,
•German Walteros, originally from Ecuador and long a therapist in the Mission and you.

This conversation was perhaps Prof. Lessig’s first public conversation about his new anti-corruption project. It also took place before Barack Obama was generally seen as a viable candidate for President.

Friday, November 9/07 : Earnestness: The current importance of being earnest. How can we create believability in our corrupt and chronically insincere politics? What exists outside the quotation marks? Can you be earnest and still funny?

I conversated with Larry Lessig (founder of Creative Commons, Stanford Law Professor and now a political corruption revolutionary), earnest person and yet, marketer Deb Schulz, comedian and anti-dealth penalty advocate Andre the Wonderwoman and you.

Why is Doing It Yourself so damn satisfying? Is poverty the only thing that gets us to DIY? Is it just a new hipster name for a hobby or a mindset that is our best hope for a better life than GloboCorp can give us? What have you done yourself recently?
Along with guest Dale Dougherty, founder of MAKE magazine, Carolyn Coquilette, who learned how to fix her own car and is now owner and chief mechanic of Luscious Garage, America’s first green, hybrid-only garage and rapper/performer Juba Kalamka, who created his own record label and festival (Sugartruck Recordings and the Peace Out HomoHop Festival), and the people formerly known as the audience (that’s you), I conversate about Doin’ It Yourself.

The Heather Gold Show: a professional dinner guest, a truly American truth teller, a philosopher and you
What Do You Do? is the conversation opener of choice for many Westerners where work often defines us. What if you can’t describe what you do? What if the way you make your income and see yourself are different? In an economy that is forcing constant job changes, does it become more imortant to figure out what special value you offer to the world (marketplace)?

Guests:The uncategorizable and comedic artist Marc Horowitz (best known for slipping his cell number and “dinner w/ Marc” into a Crate & Barrel catalog and then dinner touring the nation, (CNN, The Today Show). The multi-talented (host of Bay Native Circle on KPFA, Advisor to the Sundance /Alfre Woodard film  Follow Me Home) Lakota Harden works as a counsellor  to youth by day, and tours the country as a speaker. She grew up 8 miles from  Wounded Knee in an intensely activist family and believes she isn’t captured properly by the word “activist”. “I was born into the truth about this country. How can I know the truth and not speak it, live it, do something about it?”  Our special third guest was described to me by a conversator as “the best professor I ever had.” She has thought a lot about vocation, and her own is helping people examine their assumptions. (Rhetoric, UC Berkeley) Marc, Lakota, and our guest philosopher join Heather and you (the people formerly known as the audience) for this great conversation.

How does perception lead to knowing? How is life different for someone with coupled senses—someone who can literally taste words? Can we all change our world view and how often?
Animator and creator of the Graffiti Archaeology Project, Cassidy Curtis (Shrek 2, Madagascar, Telestereoscope) has colored-letter synesthesia (a neurological phenomena), draws pictures of math, and sneezes when exposed to bright sunlight. After a lifetime of performing, Cabaret and comic Enzo Lombardo-Quintero (Love, Humiliation & Karaoke) began to go blind in his right eye in 2005. Magic Safire can make things appear to fly, appear and disappear (Nanjing Acrobatics Troupe’s resident magician, Thirty Seconds of Fame).
All of these wonderful guests and, of course, you will join Heather to explore the ways we perceive the world and how this affects our understanding of truth.
As a special treat, joining us in the audience to participate in the conversation will be UC Berkeley doctoral candidate in Cognitive Neuropsychology Brian Alvarez and unique synesthete Colleen Silva who experiences anything that can be put in chronological in order in space around her as a mapped sensation in her body.

Links
What does synesthesia teach us about creativity? – Scientific American

Leading tech thinker Linda Stone coined the term to describe the way many of us live. What is worth our full attention? How do we give it? For how long? Join Heather and guests at her 11th SXSW appearance for this special show. Each guest, leading indie geeks, musicians, filmmakers and attention cultivators will join Heather for as long as it takes them to drink one beer. Guests include Justin Hall, Ryanne Hodson, Micki Krimmel, Lane Becker (Satisfaction), Derek Powazek (8020 Publishing and JPG Magazine), yoga teacher and feminist p*rnster Liz Belile and filmmaker Doug Pray (Big Rig, Scratch)