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COVER STORY
Recycling
Kurt Andersen and architects Samuel Mockbee and Andrew
Freear talk about the art of recycling.
  Todd
Oldham
Dumpster-diving fashion designer Todd Oldham finds
creative inspiration from trash. Produced by Jocelyn Gonzales.
 Go
to Todd Oldham's website
Go
to an altculture.com Todd Oldham profile
Go
to a fashion show website
 Turntablism
The intricate and elaborate sounds made on turntables
that no other instrument can produce. Produced by Sam Zimmerman and Michael
Jones.
Go
to "Battlesounds" website
Go
to a turntablism website
Mel
Chin
Kurt talks with conceptual artist Mel Chin about Revival
Field, his sculpture to transform a landfill with plants that extract
toxins from the soil.
Go
to Revival Field article
Go
to U of WI horticulture article
Go
to other reclamation art projects
A
Quilt for Liz
A quilt made
from scraps of cloth with poignant significance. Produced by Michele Siegel.
Go
to PBS documentary "America Quilts"
SPECIAL GUESTS
 Samuel
Mockbee
Samuel Mockbee is Alumni Professor of Architecture
at Auburn University in Alabama. He is a co- founder of Rural Studio,
a program that combines the teaching of architecture with a commitment
to public service. Mockbee and his students use discarded objects--scrap
wood, metal, hay bales, license plates-- and work with local residents
to create buildings in one of the nation's most impoverished areas, Hale
County Alabama. He received a MacArthur Foundation grant in 2000.
Go to MacArthur Fellowship website
Go
to Rural Studio's website
Go
to Corrugated Construction (a thesis project) website
Andrew Freear
Andrew Freear is a visiting professor of Architecture
at Auburn University.
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Playing
The magic of wind-powered art at the Kite Museum
in Long Beach, Washington. Produced by Harriet Baskas.
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to World Kite Museum website
Go
to International Kite Festival website
Summertime
A seasonal song responsible for more than 100
wildly different ways to say "summer." Produced by Sara Fishko.
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