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2010 Third Coast Festival Short Doc Competition

Mia — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:01:40 +0000

I just completed this piece for the Third Coast Festival Short Doc competition.

As a freelancer, there are so few opportunities to do truly creative work with sound. The folks at Third Coast give us an opportunity to do just that – to think about sound in new ways, challenging us to break out of our day jobs and get creative. The winners get all expenses paid to the conference in October, but for me, it’s not about winning. It’s about doing a piece that I feel good about.

Here’s the piece I did for the competition in 2007. It’s called My Bike Had a Burger Bell: A Tragic Tale of Life and Woe.

Distillations #98 – Climate Engineering

Mia — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:47:25 +0000

Segments on modern-day rainmaking, the history of attempts to control and “fix” climate, and fertilizing the oceans with iron in this most recent episode of Distillations. Slowly making our way to #100!

Distillations #97 – Immortality

Mia — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 02:20:02 +0000

The latest episode of Distillations – this one on immortality. It includes a very cool feature from Aries Keck about a jellyfish that lives forever. (Whoa.) Also, a segment from Jim Voelkel on one of my new favorite subjects – the alchemists!

Image courtesy of nurpax on Flickr.

another award for The Great Textbook War

Mia — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 03:39:56 +0000

The Great Textbook War keeps raking in the awards – this time a 2010 National Edward R. Murrow Award. Go Trey! (Trey Kay is the producer and brain behind the doc and the guy who hired me to help out.) I’m so honored to have my name in the credits, and I’m so thankful that Trey brought me on board.

The Great Textbook War

Mia — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 02:46:46 +0000

I had the great fortune to work on this hour-long radio documentary with producer Trey Key, who won a 2010 Peabody Award for the piece. Trey recorded his scratch tracks in my new home studio, and I’m hoping that sets the bar high for the work that will be produced out of there. I edited the scratch tracks and did a rough mix of the full doc which was a lot of fun. Great to work on a project that gets some well-deserved recognition! Listen to the final, full-length doc here.

Distillations #96 – Infamous Science

Mia — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 02:24:25 +0000

Here’s the latest episode of Distillations including pieces on thalidomide, Typhoid Mary, and cold fusion. Science can certainly get ugly sometimes.

Distillations #95 – Cleaning Up – Retro Edition

Mia — Fri, 21 May 2010 18:55:34 +0000

This is the latest episode of Distillations, a re-airing of our second podcast, originally posted on December 21, 2007. (I can’t believe we’ve been doing this show for so long!) As oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico, we thought it was appropriate to revisit these stories – unfortunately quite relevant almost three years later.

Distillations #94 – Scientific Visions

Mia — Fri, 07 May 2010 19:37:18 +0000

This show is about looking back to the future from the past. Yah – it was confusing to me too.

I found this great song on Music Alley that I couldn’t fit into the show so I’m posting it here. I thought it was pretty funny. (Note – some explicit lyrics. Hide your kids.)

Distillations #93 – Kids’ Science

Mia — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:13:46 +0000

I put a lot into this one, especially the boy rocketeer segment. That one really touched me for some reason.