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Radar One - Next Door Neighbor

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We all have a next-door neighbor and a next-door neighbor story. With this realization in mind, comic book artist, Harvey Pekar collaborator and founder of webcomix collective Act-i-vate, Dean Haspiel approached storytelling site SMITH magazine. The result: a yearlong anthology of diverse, shocking and heartfelt true-life webcomix published biweekly by both emerging and celebrated writers and artists. We visit Dean, and contributors Joan Reilly and Joe Infurnari, at their communal workspace deep in industrial Brooklyn and discuss the importance of place and community – real life and virtual. For more information, check out http://www.smithmag.net/nextdoorneighbor.

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Radar Eight - Dr Sketchys
Four years ago, as a broke art school drop-out Molly Crabapple set up Dr Sketchys, the anti-art school, as a social gathering in Brooklyn. Now a sought after fine artist, comics creator and illustrator in her own right, Dr Sketchy's has spread to over 80 cities and has grown from an event, to a movement. Weekly, droves of artists and amateurs alike swarm to these experiences internationally to draw glamorous underground personalities from burlesque dancers to fetish models to drag queens. We talk to Molly about what makes Dr Sketchy's unique and how she controls the creative vision from above.

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Radar Sixteen: Missed Connections
Illustrator Sophie Blackall has read thousands of missed connections posts. A self confessed addict of these intimate, fleeting moments described in haste and posted in public, she trawls through them daily to find the most visual, humorous, lyrical or wierd confessions or pleas, before creating a similarly spontaneous illustration she then posts to her blog. We talk to Sophie about the significance of shared moments between strangers, and create the moments that might have been.

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Radar Four - Universal Record Database
What do 'Most money destroyed for profit', the 'Longest shhh' and 'Most flaxseed cracker people created in one minute' have in common? They are all records held on Dan Rollman and Corey Henderson’s Universal Record Database, otherwise known as the 'definitive site for human achievement'. The founders take us through the thinking behind their project, while Zoomdoggle's Jake Bronstein waxes lyrical on the joy of inventing new categories, Emmy award winning writer/director Todd Lamb explains his obsession with fish sandwiches and photographer Emily Wilson breaks a new record live.

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Radar Two - I Eat Pandas
During the day, Eliza Skinner works on Wall Street and Glennis McMurray teaches and appears in commercials, but at night they bound on stage as the critically acclaimed I Eat Pandas. In regular performances across the US, including the Upright Citizens Brigade theater in LA and NYC, they create shows that consist of three completely different, completely improvised musicals in just 25, 15 and 5 minutes, all based on a single suggestion from the audience. Currently starring in promos for Showtime and writing an eight part musical via their video blogs, we talk to them about balancing day jobs with rising comedy careers, and what it takes to create as a duo on the fly.

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Love In The Streets (Jerry Rothwell)
Our collective imagination of homelessness is shaped by the idea of someone who is single and lonely. Roy and Morag explode that myth and take in companionship, humor and love, alongside the dirt, noise and damp of London’s pavements –a warm look at the chill of a (love) life lived on the outside.

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Nails (John McCullagh)
A manicurist, member of a family of "boat people" immigrants, draws on memories of her rural childhood to transform her customers' nails into small scenes of a life. There are women in London's Brixton whose fingernails recall village life in Vietnam.

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BIG IDEAS: ep 1 – Imogen Heap’s Floating Houses
If there weren't any pesky practical limitations, what world-changing device would you invent? Renowned electronic songstress Imogen Heap gets the ball rolling with her suggestion that we all live in floating spherical homes, and allow areas damaged by man to regenerate. Featuring the song "First Train Home" by Imogen Heap off her album, Ellipse.

For more Big Ideas, visit babelgum.com/bigideas.

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Shooting Fish Champion
The Archer Fish uses its mouth as a bow and a stream of water as an arrow to shoot prey lurking above the surface. Not only must it hit a moving target but it also solves a complex problem of physics in the process. As it sets its aim, the fish calculates and corrects for the refractive bending of light through the water. Its gill covers shut, thrusting water along a groove, releasing a stream of aqua arrows.

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Globalization Gone Wild (David Redmon)
The Mardi Gras bead first appears as a trivial commodity, but with humor and deadpan comedy, director David Redmon carefully shows the connections between nudity, labor, petroleum, and protest.

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Iranian Uranium
Animated song taking a wry look at Iran's nuclear ambitions.

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