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COVER STORY
Flaws
Kurt Andersen and Todd Solondz look at the human attraction to creative flaws and beautiful accidents.
  Movie
Mistakes
A look at how we watch movies closely,
and how even their tiniest storytelling flaws resonate on the set and
off. Produced by Sara Fishko.
 Go
to Site on flaws in Films
 Imperfect
Voices
From Maria Callas to Lou Reed, Kurt Andersen and WNYC's
John Schaefer talk about what makes a voice "flawed."
Go
to site about Mahlathini
Go
to Lou Reed's official site
Go
to Maria Callas's official site
The
Icarus Paintings
The myth of Icarus symbolizes fleeting glory, and the
foolishness of flying too high, literally and figuratively. A story about
Spencer Finch, a painter who tried to depict Icarus' hubris and doom.
Produced by David Krasnow.
See
the Icarus paintings
Go
to Postmasters Gallery
 Intentional
Flaws
There's a common notion that Navajo weavers have a
tradition of deliberately including a small error into each rug or blanket
they make. But is it true? Three weavers in New Mexico talk about this
concept of the purposeful artistic flaw. Produced by Deborah Begel.
Go
to Museum of Indian Arts and Culture About Weavers
Go
to Site about the History of Native American Weaving
Go
to Garden of God's Trading Post's site about Navajo Weavers
SPECIAL
GUEST
Todd Solondz
Solondz is a writer and filmmaker. Deeply flawed characters
populate his movies, from 1995's Welcome to the Dollhouse, to Happiness,
to last year's Storytelling.
Go
to Solondz's movie Storytelling
Go
to a Todd Solondz fan site
Go
to an Onion AV Club interview with Solondz
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Commentary
Not Too Risky Business
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Design
for the Real World
MoMA design curator Paola Antonelli has these
thoughts on an elegant little machine that helps us hold it all together--the
zipper.
Now
Playing
Dymaxion House. When Buckminster Fuller invented
the Dymaxion house in the 1940's he called it perfect -- spacious, round,
collapsible, aluminum. But the Dymaxion was a spectacular failure and
only two houses were ever built. Produced by Harriet Baskas.
Go
to official Dymaxion House page
Go
to a site about Buckminster Fuller and his Dymaxion house
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