How This Works

Kiss the Ground

12 March 2021
cassandra carlopio, climate change, regenerative agriculture

During the first season of How This Works, we're signal boosting topics from our guests. And this week, Cassandra Carlopio wanted to highlight Kiss The Ground, an organization that works in regenerative agriculture as a practical solution to climate change. They have a movie out on Netflix, narrated and featuring Woody Harrelson.

• https://kissthegroundmovie.com/
• https://kisstheground.com/impact/

This clip includes Rosario Dawson, Amy Smart, Paul Blackthorne, Kendrick Sampson, and Adrian Grenier.

Related content: Ben Falk's episode of How This Works, Carl Welty's episode of How This Works

2016 episode of Invisibilia called "Frame of Reference"

8 March 2021
cassandra carlopio, frame of reference, invisibilia, other podcast

Ahead of tomorrow's episode with Cassandra Carlopio, we're highlighting an excellent episode of Invisibilia from 2016 called "Frame of Reference". It dives into the role that our frame of reference plays in our lives and how it filters our everyday experience to good and not so good effect.

Regenerative Skills episode on how to ask better questions

5 March 2021
carol sanford, jill cloutier, other podcast, regenerative skills

Happy Friday! Today we're sharing a podcast called Regenerative Skills. They've kicked off their new season with Jill Cloutier and Carol Sanford in an episode around the powerful notion of asking better questions. Very important for a designer and very important for a human.

Listen below:

Ben Falk's 2013 TEDx talk on homestead resiliency and food systems regeneration

1 March 2021
ben falk, resiliency, whole systems design

Ahead of Ben Falk's episode on Tue, you can listen to his TEDx talk from 2013 on homestead resiliency and food systems regeneration below.

“I feel most alone in the presence of perfection"

26 February 2021
fuck it all, kacie lett gordon, other podcast

In Tue’s episode of How this Works, Kacie Lett Gordon and Skipper talk about her solo episode, WTF is FIA? In that episode of Fuck it all, she talks about a phrase that she has recently put together, “I feel most alone in the presence of perfection”.

Read more about it here: https://www.itallpodcast.com/blog-1/i-feel-most-alone-in-the-presence-of-perfection.

You can also listen below.

You can listen to Kacie's conversation with Skipper on How This Works here: https://www.howthisworks.show/14

Oprah recites Dr Maya Angelou's poem "Phenomenal Woman"

22 February 2021
dr. maya angelou, kacie lett gordon, oprah, supersoul sunday

Tomorrow, we have an interview with Kacie Lett Gordon, host of the podcast Fuck it all. Something that she shares during the episode is something that hypes her up is Oprah's reciting Dr. Maya Angelou's poem "Phenomenal Woman".

We hope this gets your day off to a great start!

"Horror movies calm my anxiety"

19 February 2021
chris landon, horror movies, sarah aboulhosn, therapy

One of the things that Chris Landon & Skipper talked about in this week's episode is the notion of horror movies being therapeutic. Sarah Aboulhosn wrote "Horror movies calm my anxiety" on Medium, which echoes the same point. You can read it here: https://link.medium.com/t1IPg5xV0db.

And of course, you can listen to Chris Landon's episode here: https://www.howthisworks.show/13.

While you're there, you can subscribe and leave us a review too. That would be very nice, thanks.

Lucky no. 13, How This Works with Chris Landon

16 February 2021
chris landon, how this works, new episode, tue, tuesday

It's new episode Tuesday! And we have a conversation with Chris Landon today about his lifelong love of horror movies and how that's played into his work as a screenwriter and as a director. We talk about a ton of movies, including some of his own — "Disturbia" (2007), his helping to reboot the "Paranormal Activity" series, "Happy Death Day" (2017), "Happy Death Day 2U" (2019), and "Freaky" (2020).

One of our favorite parts is when Skipper admits he's not really a fan of horror and Chris tells him off. Chris is joking, of course, but there’s real #truth in there too.

Don’t wait, listen to the #podcast now: https://www.howthisworks.show/13

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First episode of The Magnus Archives

15 February 2021
chris landon, nova stanley, other podcast, the magnus archives

In advance of tomorrow's episode with Chris Landon, we want to highlight a podcast that recent guest Nova Stanley mentioned, The Magnus Archives. It's recently concluded after 191 episodes of following Jonathan Sims, the newly-appointed head archivist of the fictional Magnus Institute — a London research center on the paranormal. In Nova's words from his episode, it's got that "good ol' British library feeling".

Listen to the first episode below:

You can find all episodes here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-magnus-archives/id1095138637

More on Filippo Brunelleschi inventing linear perspective in 1413

12 February 2021
1413, 1991, documentaries, documentary, filippo brunelleschi, james burke, linear perspective, masters of illusion, the national gallery of art, vhs

To add onto something that Carl Welty talked about in this week's episode — how Filippo Brunelleschi invented (or re-developed as this article points out) linear perspective in 1413, here's even greater detail: http://www.renegadetribune.com/filippo-brunelleschi-rediscovery-perspective/.

Included there is a version of James Burke's 1991 Masters of Illusion from The National Gallery of Art. We've included it below for ease of viewing.

The video effects aren't to be missed — just brilliant!