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COVER STORY
The Beach
Kurt Andersen spends the day at Coney Island with John
Linnell and John Flansburgh of the band, They Might Be Giants.
 Idlewild
Written and performed by They Might Be Giants.
Sandcastles
Sand sculptor Kirk Rademaker makes
architecture out of sand-with arches and balconies, fantastical structures
as high as ten feet, and sloping curves that stretch all over the beach.
He showed off his skills for us at Ocean Beach in San Francisco. Produced
by Jonathan Mitchell.
 Go
to Kirk Rademaker's homepage
Learn
how to build sandcastlese
Metal
Detector
Written and performed by They Might Be Giants.
Mermaid
Surrealist painter Paul Delvaux painted his own beach
fantasy in 1942. It's called the Village of the Mermaids. The foreground
tells one story, and in the distance there's a surprise. Judith Kampfner
went into the vaults of the Art Institute of Chicago to see Delvaux's
painting with curator Stephanie D'Alessandro.
Visit
an online gallery of Delvaux's work
Go
to a page on Paul Delvaux at Artcyclopedia
Caroline,
No
Written by Brian Wilson, performed by They Might Be
Giants.
 Capiz
In the Philippines, seashells are more than souvenirs
- they're a serious art. Jocelyn Gonzales explains the history and craft
of Capiz, a traditional method of transforming clamshells into something
much more.
See
Gwen Carlton's Capiz shell light fixtures
Boat
of Car
Written and performed by They Might Be Giants.
WEB
EXCLUSIVE: No Plan B
Written and performed by They Might Be Giants.
SPECIAL
GUEST
They Might be Giants
They Might Be Giants are John Flansburgh and John
Linnell, the accordion-and-guitar duo based in Brooklyn. They got their
start in 1982 singing for food in Central Park, and today have sold over
3 million records and performed more than one thousand shows around the
world. Flansburgh and Linnell have recorded songs for television and film
(including the theme song for Malcolm in the Middle). For more than a
decade they have run a Dial-a-Song service on the Giants' answering machine,
with a new tune recorded almost every day. They are the subject of the
film Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns, in theaters this summer.
Go
to TMBG's official site
Go
to TMBG's Dial-a-Song
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