‘The Cyborg Drummer’ Documentary About A Man With a Robotic Prosthetic Allowing Him To Play The Drums Again
In 2012, drummer Jason Barnes was cleaning an exhaust duct when he was electrocuted by 22,000 volts of electricity. He lost his right hand and believed his days as a musician were done. That’s when Gil Weinberg, professor of musical technology at Georgia Tech, stepped in with a robotic hand that gave Barnes his drumming abilities back. In this Atlantic documentary, we explore this particular juncture of music and technology—what it has meant for Barnes and what it could mean for the future of music in the age of artificial intelligence.
Bill Nye: “5 Things You Need to Know About Climate Change”
Bill Nye boils down the basic facts surrounding climate change, and why the rate at which our planet is changing is so important.
Molly Ringwald makes us all feel better about growing old.
Are you comfortable with your age now?
Molly Ringwald: Well, when you’ve been in a movie called Sixteen Candles, there’s really no point in lying about your age. People have grown up with me. I’m comfortable with who I am. I mean, there are days when I think, Where did my 20s go? or Where did my 30s go? But there are other days where I feel like, wow, I like the person that I’ve become. I also feel like I have an intellectual confidence that I don’t think that I had when I was younger; that you can’t really have—or you shouldn’t necessarily have—when you’re younger, because you haven’t really experienced enough.
John Lydon talks about his heroes, who include Bettie Page and Mahatma Gandhi
John Lydon (once known as Johnny Rotten) formed Public Image Ltd when The Sex Pistols disbanded in 1978. By that time, being in the Pistols had given Lydon, a self-described “shy person,” a platform for expression, and he’d become an important cultural figure.
Public Image Ltd went on hiatus in 1993, but the band re-formed in 2009. Today, Lydon joins World Cafe to share music from PiL’s new album, What The World Needs Now…, and talk about some of his heroes, who include Bettie Page and Mahatma Gandhi.
Via NPR
That time in 1974 when John Lennon narrated Ringo’s new album. Ringo then did voiceover for John’s new album.
A television commercial for Ringo Starr’s 1974 album Goodnight Vienna, which featured a voiceover from John Lennon, depicted the cover’s flying saucer (with Starr) over Los Angeles-landing on the roof of the Capitol Records building in Hollywood,
Starr returned the favour and did the voiceover for the commercial for Lennon’s Walls and Bridges album.