Alex Zanardi Mantalk Interview pt1

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Mantalk Interview with the Italian racing legend,Alex Zanardi.Part 1.

James Brown Mantalk Interview

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James Kraut Mens Activist Mantalk Interview pt 2

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Talks about Robert Bly and misconceptions about mens groups.

Dr. Earl Mindell Men & Vitamins Mantalk interview

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Hear the Mantalk interview with Earl,the vitamin and herb guru as we talk about Men's health.

James Kraut Mens Activist Mantalk Interview

James Kraut Mens Activist Mantalk Interview

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Doctor of Psychology Jim Kraut who runs a mens group in Hollywood Florida.Excellent!

The Rubber Song A Mantalk Exclusive!

The Rubber Song A Mantalk Exclusive!

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The infamous Mantalk Rubber Song.

President of AMFAR Mantalk Interview

President of AMFAR Mantalk Interview

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Interview with Dr.Mervin Silverman,President of AMFAR (American Foundation for Aids Research).

Famous Artist David Maxwell Part 1

Famous Artist David Maxwell Part 1

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Painter David Maxwell is sitting in the spacious backyard at his Miramar duplex (one of his daughters lives in the front half) when I arrive for a visit on a perfect South Florida Sunday morning. He and his wife of 33 years, Mary, have just returned from their customary weekend breakfast at their favorite diner. He's relaxing in the yard so that their two dogs can get comfortable enough with me that they won't be a distraction while we talk. Maxwell, a Chicago native who's in his early 60s, is an imposing bear of a man, with a bushy beard that ranges from gray on the sides to snowy white in the center. As he freely admits, he likes to talk. He'll hold forth on theory, technique, you name it with the confidence of someone who has been doing what he does for a very long time. With his meticulously constructed urban scenes, combining post-impressionist technique and modern subject matter, Maxwell has become one of South Florida's most admired and instantaneously recognizable painters. His curriculum vitae is a dense document full of his achievements, presented with no pretense to modesty. He claims that his work appeals not only "to children, neophytes, and everyday visitors" but also to "hypersnotty critics." (Having written favorably about his work a few times in the past, I hope I don't fall into the latter category.) He claims to have had works in hundreds of shows and won nearly 100 awards. What Maxwell does, with great skill, is use opaque watercolor to capture construction sites. "They're so much more interesting under construction," he says. "I think the building has so much more visual dynamics when it's under construction." Not surprisingly, the artist worked in the construction business himself for nearly three decades; he devoted himself to art full time when, after his three children were grown, Mary went to work as an elementary-school teacher. A typical Maxwell piece might feature a concrete mixer, a gigantic crane, a dumpster full of debris, scaffolding, or piles of construction materials. He often crops an image and then divides it between two canvases that can work together or apart. His Not Quite Plumb, which recently took second prize in the "30 Years, the Next Level" show at ArtServe, is a two-panel take on part of the Diplomat resort complex on the beach in Hollywood. An earlier piece called T.Y. Saurus gave a piece of heavy equipment at T.Y. (Topeekeegee Yugnee) Park in Hollywood the look of a mechanical dinosaur. Photographs are instrumental in Maxwell's art. And yet he bristles at the notion of translating a photo into a painting. "First is the idea," he says. He approaches a subject with his interpretation of it in mind, he explains, but the result is always far from literal. Instead, Maxwell uses one or more photographs of a construction site to re-create the site so that it's something that exists only in his imagination and on the canvas. He'll take elements from one photo and combine them with elements from another. "I refuse to accept the camera as anything other than a reminder," he says. An extraneous item here is deleted, another item is added elsewhere to flesh out the composition. Maxwell mentions shifting some birds from one part of a painting to another to readjust the visual balance. An excess of empty sky in a photograph disappears as the image is rendered in watercolor. Maxwell talks a lot about "negative space" and "a sense of place" when discussing his paintings. He cites a wide range of influences, from Marcel Duchamp to Paul Signac to modern composer John Cage. At first glance, and especially from a slight distance, a Maxwell painting appears to be standard-issue photorealism. But on closer inspection, we can see that he has applied a technique associated with the late 19th Century to contemporary subject matter. Maxwell has essentially revived, and converted to his own uses, pointillism, the technique employed by French neoimpressionist Georges Seurat (he called it divisionism) and one of his disciples, Signac. Seurat achieved mesmerizing effects by using tiny dots of paint that, taken together, form the image. American artist Roy Lichtenstein used a similar ingredient -- the Ben Day dots of commercial graphics -- for much different effects in his comics-inspired paintings. Maxwell acknowledges both Seurat and Lichtenstein as influences, as well as the pixilated imagery of television and computers. He throws all these styles and techniques into his aesthetic blender and emerges with his own sensibility. After our rambling discussion, Maxwell invites me into the duplex, where the small kitchen/dining room doubles as his studio. Mary has commandeered the lower tier of a bunk bed in a small bedroom as her studio, where she works on pottery to which she affixes shards of glass and other materials. Another room is a sort of library/office, filled with countless books, magazines, and brochures. A computer slide show displays an impressive sampling of the Maxwells' work. Not many of Maxwell's paintings are on display in his house. He says he doesn't like to have a lot of completed work lying (or hanging) around. He prefers to keep as many paintings as possible in circulation, touring the country in traveling shows or on display in corporate or museum collections. Maxwell has been active in a variety of artists' organizations, including the Allied Artists of America and Knickerbocker Artists, both based in New York City. He has also been represented exclusively for more than 15 years by the Uptown Gallery, also in NYC. That may explain why his work commands high prices. Not Quite Plumb was priced at $19,000 at the ArtServe show, many thousands of dollars more than its competitors. For all his self-confidence and bravado, however, Maxwell is constantly reexamining his work. "If you're not questioning what you're doing," he says, "you're not doing your job as an artist.".He passed away July 19,2006.

Alice Cooper Mantalk interview

Alice Cooper Mantalk interview

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A great holiday interview the rock legend Alice Cooper, "Every parent's worst nightmare".

Randy California of Spirit Mantalk interview part 1

Randy California of Spirit Mantalk interview part 1

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1993 interview with the legendary guitarist of the group Spirit who passed away in 1997.Rare.He played with Jimi Hendrix and talks about this and more.

Mantalk Men's activist Black Fatherhood author interview pt 1

Mantalk Men's activist Black Fatherhood author interview pt 1

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Dr. Earl Ofari Hutchinson author of Black Fatherhood A Guide to Male Parenting, grants us an interview after the L.A. riots.See more of his stuff at www.thehutchinsonreport.com or more men's stuff at mantalk.com or subscribe to our podcast on itunes.

Mantalk Men's activist Dr.Earl Ofari Hutchinson interview pt 2

Mantalk Men's activist Dr.Earl Ofari Hutchinson interview pt 2

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Author of Black Fatherhood gives Mantalk an interview.Excellent guest.Part 1 will be posted soon.

Mantalk Radio Show Testicular Self Exam pt 2

Mantalk Radio Show Testicular Self Exam pt 2

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Mantalk short version for those who think they may have testicular cancer from mantalk.com.

Mantalk TV Themes Quiz

Mantalk TV Themes Quiz

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A little of Jim and Tim the Duct Tape Guys and then our famous TV Television Themes Quiz.More on mantalk.com

Mantalk James Brown intro

Mantalk James Brown intro

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The Godfather of Soul doing his take on the Mantalk thing.

Men's Activist Robert Sides Mantalk Interview

Men's Activist Robert Sides Mantalk Interview

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From the National Coalition for Free Men (NCFM).Mr. Sides has strong opinions,actually went to a girl's college o challenge the law at that time.Very Opinonated! More available at mantalk.com

Rick Dees L.A. Dj Aircheck KIIS-FM

Rick Dees L.A. Dj Aircheck KIIS-FM

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Dees worked in various radio stations throughout the southeastern United States, including WSGN in Birmingham, Alabama. Dees recorded "Disco Duck" in 1976 while working at WMPS-AM in Memphis, Tennessee which fired him over his airplay of it. Following a 45 day mandatory hiatus after his time at rival WMPS, he went on to WHBQ-AM in Memphis and took the station to #1. The single Disco Duck sold over six million copies and reached number 1 on Billboard magazine's Hot 100 chart on October 16, 1976. The song had a cameo appearance in the movie Saturday Night Fever, in a brief scene in which a group of older people were learning to "move their feet to the disco beat", but the song was not included in that movie's popular soundtrack album, thus depriving him of a Grammy award that the artists on the record received. In 1979 Dees moved to Los Angeles and did mornings on KHJ (which was at the time WHBQ's sister station) during its final years as a Top 40 station. When KHJ fliped to a country format, Dees left the station. In 1982, Rick Dees moved to crosstown Top 40 outlet KIIS-FM, where he served as host of Rick Dees in the Morning until 2004, when he was replaced by Ryan Seacrest.Competed against John London.

No Women Allowed TV Pilot

No Women Allowed TV Pilot

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Here's a pilot we produced for the FX Myspace contest.

Naka Macrobiotic Vegetarian Bushido Expert

Naka Macrobiotic Vegetarian Bushido Expert

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Mr. Naka ,who heads a Kushi approved macrobiotic center in Japan, gives a lecture,this one entitled Bushido II.Taped with his permission.

Jessica Porter Hip Chick Vegetarian Chef / Comedienne

Jessica Porter Hip Chick Vegetarian Chef / Comedienne

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the author of the Hip Chicks Guide to Macrobiotics live march 2006 on the Holistic Holiday at Sea Cruise III.For more from this cruise go to www.aliveevent.com

Joy of Soy Macrobiotic Vegetarian Cooking Class

Joy of Soy Macrobiotic Vegetarian Cooking Class

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Recorded live at sea on the Holistic Holiday at Sea Cruise 3 on March 4,2006. Famous macrobiotic cooking instructors Warren and Marquita Wepman show how to do everything from peel an onion without tears to cooking a delicious soy macrobiotic meal.Buy the entire video at aliveevent.com This is a 9 minute clip from the 70+ minute video.Enjoy!

Jay Thomas KPWR radio Dj aircheck

Jay Thomas KPWR radio Dj aircheck

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Best remembered for being the Morning Host on 92.3 WKTU. He would be replaced by Howard Stern when WKTU switched to KROCK. This would become the launching pad for Stern's syndicated network. After WKTU flipped formats Thomas was hired by then new Rhythmic Top 40 upstart KPWR/Los Angeles in 1986 as their new moring host, which is where he would enjoy a successful run. In 1992 Thomas left KPWR .

Playboy columnist Asa Baber Mantalk interview part 1

Playboy columnist Asa Baber Mantalk interview part 1

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A classic Mantalk interview the great Playboy men's columnist Asa Baber.Part 1.He was 66 when he died on June,18,2003.Listen live to Mantalk on www.talkshoe.com at 8am est and 9pm est Monday through Friday for fresh live shows.Podcast #26561. Join us live.


"I am here to urge you to be a little more brave, a tad more courageous and self-controlled," Asa Baber wrote in his last column, which appears in this month's issue of Playboy magazine, "and to take some private time to contemplate the mysteries of the universe and ask yourself how you plan to spend whatever time you have left. "How can you avoid wasting your life?"

Mr. Baber, the longtime author of Playboy's "Men" column, died Monday morning at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. He'd been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, in September 2001.
Mr. Baber and Gehrig, his childhood hero, shared a birthday: June 19. Mr. Baber would have turned 67 on Thursday.
A public memorial service is planned for Monday, June 30 at the Thorne Auditorium, 375 E. Chicago, at 6:30 p.m.
Mr. Baber grew up on the South Side of Chicago, a self-described "gutter snipe" with a penchant for small scale trouble that might have gotten bigger had his grandmother not intervened and shipped him off to the Lawrenceville Academy, a posh New Jersey boarding school, and then to Princeton University.


But Mr. Baber's elite education was always tempered by the tough-guy streak that had been born on 47th Street and honed in the U.S. Marines' Platoon Leader Corps, which he joined while in college. He served in the Marines, after his 1958 graduation, until 1961.


Mr. Baber had grown up wanting to be a writer in the style of the hard-boiled journalists he'd met on his summer job as a newspaper copy boy. A chance meeting with William Faulkner set him on a more literary path.


After graduate work at Northwestern University and the prestigious University of Iowa Writer's Workshop, Mr. Baber published his first novel,The Land of A Million Elephants, a story of military intrigue in Southeast Asia clearly influenced by his own--top-secret--experiences in the Marines.


Mr. Baber was a professor of English at the University of Hawaii from 1969 to 1975. He was so beloved by his students there, and those he later taught at a series of visiting professorships, that a Chicago Sun-Times feature about him published in February 2002 prompted more than two dozen former students to get in touch with him.


Mr. Baber's writing, which included fiction, essays, journalism and drama, appeared in several major national magazines and garnered many awards. But he was best known for his work in Playboy.


In 1982, after writing an essay called "Who Gets Screwed in a Divorce? I Do!," Mr. Baber launched the "Men" column. Developed with his mentor, longtime Playboy editor Arthur Ketchmer, the column was a touchstone for the men's liberation movement. With humor, often raunchy and usually wry, and an utter disdain for political correctness, Mr. Baber waged a battle of the sexes that celebrated difference but never surrendered to stereotype.


After going public with his ALS diagnosis in an appearance on the 2002 Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Association Telethon, Mr. Baber was elected to serve as a national vice president of the MDA. Colleagues there loved his humor, his sprit and, of course, the quintessentially manly courage with which he faced his disease.


"He wasn't 'Tuesdays With Morrie'," said Lauren Webb, an MDA health care coordinator at the ALS clinic at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, "He was Asa."


"Even at his bedside, when he was dying, he was still cracking jokes," said his son Brendan, "and there was still laughter in the room."


Mr. Baber is also survived by another son, Jim; his fiancee, Sherri Stubbs, and his sister Dorothy, best known as Ducky. His first grandchild, a boy, is due to arrive in September.

Yoga legend Yogi Desai Live

Yoga legend Yogi Desai Live

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Fake Orgasms

Fake Orgasms

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How to spot one.

Vegetarian 20 minute dinners with Christina Pirello

Vegetarian 20 minute dinners with Christina Pirello

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Watch PBS cooking host (Christinacooks.com) Christina Pirello cooking vegetarian live from March 2006 aboard the Costa Magica cruise ship on the Holistic Holiday at Sea Cruise III (go to www.atasteofhealth.org for details ON THE 4TH CRUISE IN 2007) live