Emma brought us this documentary journey from lovely Rio de Janeiro.  While working in Brazil, she had a little incident ... which led to this trip for a poop exam.  Emma took time away from a supercool project to put her pride and prudence aside to bring us this flowing tale (pun intended) of adventure and misfortune.  If you're wiped out (again ... intended) after a long week at work, we hope you'll kick back and enjoy it.  We think you will, in the end (dear god ... somebody stop us).

Ps. Rumor has it that we're getting out of this jar in the very near future.  Stay tuned for updates and new audio! 

Also: Jesse Dukes has usurped curating duties in the Shed and Jennifer and Shea remain miniaturized and trapped in a small jar.

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Oh, and something strange seems to have befallen Shea and Jennifer...

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This week's podcast is also a Big Shed Birthday shout-out to our dear friend, fine accordianist, and brilliant artist Ann Marie. Happy Birthday, Ann Marie!!!

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The long-ass intro features Big Shed alum Owen Agnew, Clive (one of Shea's students who hosts a death-metal radio show at the youth center where he works), and the ungodly-fun band pictured above who plays regularly at Dupont Circle in DC.  Thanks to producerly cowardice, we have no idea what the name of the band is.  Maybe someday Shea will ask them.

We'll try to drop you a line from the Festival or soon thereafter.  Hopefully this year, Shea will be a little more composed than he was in last years podcast from chi-town ... but what fun would that be? 

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Shortwaveology is a periodic rumination on the sound, history and culture of shortwave radio broadcasting. David wants to thank former Radio Canada International program host Ian McFarland for the use of his compilation of shortwave station interval signals and sign-ons. You can find more information about that here.

Also thanks also to Kim Andrew Elliot for the Moscow Mailbag recording. Kim has a very interesting blog about international broadcasting, and public diplomacy.

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We met Rebecca last year at the Third Coast Festival, where her story "Honoring the Body: Tahrah" received the Director's Choice Award.  Rebecca is also a Host and Producer for AK (Alaska Public Radio Network).  We're tickled pink to welcome her to the Shed.

Just in case our bbq outing piqued your aural appetite, here's a little audio hushpuppy where Shea reveals insights from one of the darker periods of his life.

Ps. Thanks for bearing with our belated posting of new audio.  We have (um ... shea has ;-) been running a bit behind.  But please stay tuned.  We've got a ton of great tape coming soon that's definitely worth the wait!

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This episode of Big Shed proudly features Shea's mom (aww) and dad (like father, like son).  Click here for a super bonus mysery rough cut outtake of his interview with them!

Big Shed is proud to air the second installment from our infamous international documentary desk.  Shed alums Emma Raynes and Amanda Hark-Weber are both working overseas as Lewis Hines Documentary Fellows and are sending us wonderful tape of the people and places they're getting to know.  We really appreciate their doing this and are elated to share their sounds and stories with you.

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Check out the Mantra Trailer site and drop her a mantra!  FYI - Sherri just returned from The MacDowell Colony, the oldest artists' colony in the country.  Check out this NPR story about MacDowell that featured Sherri's project. 

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Jen forgot to say in the piece that Jesse Dukes is a producer on the Virginia-based radio program, With Good Reason.  Thanks so much for turning her on to this awesome tune "Shifting Texas Sand." She went on a web hunt for it immediately.  (And Shea wants to out Jesse as an alum of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Maine.)

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A special thanks to Katie for her patience (link for MySpace users).  Have a great time at The Salt Institute for Documentary Studies!

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Check out Emma's blog to read about her encounters with language, rivers, rituals, migrant workers, orphans and lice!

Big Shed is proud to announce our international documentary desk.  Shed alums Emma Raynes and Amanda Hark-Weber are both working overseas as Lewis Hines Documentary Fellows and are sending us wonderful tape of the people and places they're getting to know.  We really appreciate their doing this and are elated to share their sounds and stories with you.

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A tragic turn of events at the worldâs smallest circus.  Les Petits Tristes is an excerpt from Transfixed: Through the Fresnel Lens, Tiny Tales of Woe, a collection of audio shorts.  Notes:  Words by Jill Summers, music by David Whitcomb. Engineered by David Whitcomb at Stray Dog Recording Co. in Chicago.  Also, do yourself a favor and check out "Talk to Me About Love," their beautiful submission to the Third Coast Festival's 99 Ways to Tell a Story project.

In addition to all of his own documentary work, John also directs the audio program at the Duke Center for Documentary Studies.  We're big fans of the program and are glad to add this to their special place in the shed.

In case you're insatiable and want more Big Shed fun, we have two bonus downloads for you:
- Jingle Bells (the skype remix)
- And last year's hit video Mitchell the Christmas Moose.

We'll be back next week with something to help you ring in the New Year.  Until then, Happy holidays! (from jen and shea)

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But instead of Turkey, we're offering you a big serving of pigeons.  WTF?!  That's right pigeon haters, this week they've come home to roost at Big Shed. 

Owen Agnew (audio) and Allison Lucas (photo) just started work on a new project about pigeons keepers in Brooklyn, New Yorkâa group of folks they've found to be surprisingly large and diverse.  Owen and Allison were kind enough to send us sights and sounds from their first day of recording.  The voice in the piece and face in the photo is Michael Scott, whose father had pigeons before him. And this particular recording was made at one of his coops in Canarsie, on top of his grandmotherâs house.

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"These are some of the sounds I heard while I was living in Alicante, Spain during the Spring of 2005.   I brought with me a mini-disc player, binaural mics, and a ridiculously rudimentary grasp of the language.  This is my first collage, and one of my first pieces altogether.  The Quiet American is owed a debt of gratitude for creating a wonderfully inspirational and informative  website that helped me a lot in the beginning." 

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Ps. Now can hear "Shed Your Audio Inhbitions," the Big Shed Listening Session at the Third Coast Website. along with recordings of all the other amazing sessions.

You can download the full presentation here.  It's about 90 minutes long and plenty of fun.  We thought it might be a little long for the regular podcast, but if you're interested, please download and enjoy it.

That being said, a personal note from Shea: Oh my god.  Jennifer, I can't believe you're running this tape!  My mother will be horrified.  My friends will be ... not so surprised.  My ego will be deflated.  I'm glad we have the documentary courage to use this.  Just kidding.  all I really want to say is thanks for the Alka Seltzer ;-).  

Ps. Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone at the Third Coast International Audio Festival! 

(Thanks to Adrienne Mathiowetz of Love and Radio, Dennis Conrow of New Letters on the Air, Paul Sturtz of the True/False Film Festival and  Noah Miller of the outLoud Radio Project for being semi-recognizable in the above photo.)

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The North Country Public Radio website summed up the presentation this way: "Sound is really cool and everyone should grab a microphone and recorder and try their hand at making radio. After the lecture, he and David Sommerstein ducked into a stairwell to escape the rain and chat about why he prefers radio to other media."

Thanks for the story, David, and for letting us re-cast it here.

Ps. Woohoo!!!! -- We're going to the Third Coast Audio Festival! October 25-28 in Chicago . Big Shed will be presenting a listening session Wednesday night.  Hope to see some of you there.

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textual accompaniment goes something like this: human again. sense of self as distinct from world happily crumbles as the earth offers itself to you, opens as it is always open, and you offer yrself open yrself lose yrself sink into crunching earth breathing sky fading light warming friends creeping cold enveloping silence."

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"There's nothing I can say to you that will prepare you for this." - Matt Largey

Thanks to Matt and TK for dropping by the Big Shed.  Hope the stars at night are big and bright down there.

• Personal Note: This is also a belated birthday shout out to Shea's father, Ben Shackelford (who's pictured here with a youger, clean-cut Shea).  Shea questions whether he will tell him about it, because of the scattalogical content leading up to our birthday wish at the end of the piece.  But he asks, "it's the thought that counts, right?!"

• Historical Note: Matt Largey and Shea originally produced this piece for Radio Pie, an ocassional audio collective (of which Shea must confess membership) in June of 2005. We're going to make a bold claim here, the kind one can only make when inflating the significance of internet-related history.  Thanks to the marketing prowress of Big Shed's Jennifer Deer and the ballsy vision of Jim Gates and the rest of the folks at APM's Weekend America, we think that this was the first instance of audio being produced for a podcast being picked up as a public radio segment.  Woohoo!!
  

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âThe Bandwagon old-time TV music show is one of the countryâs longest-running local programs.  It first aired in late 1960.  As a fairly new resident of Southern Minnesota, I found myself oddly captivated by the polka dancers Iâd occasionally see on our local CBS affiliate.  To the untrained eye the program seemed, well, really goofy.  People danced, polka bands played, and the hosts talked about upcoming events like Tuba Mania and the Bavarian Blast. 

The more I watched, the more I noticed the hosts talking about the audienceâalways wishing them well on birthdays and anniversaries. Everybody on the show seemed to be having a great time.  Old folks with great calves were there dancing, high school kids would show up every so often (maybe as a dare, butâ), and mentally disabled people were dancing and welcomed by all. 

I got to wondering if locally produced TV is about as important as locally produced food.  I had to check it outâand this is what I found.â?

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L o o k   d e e p l y   I n t o   o u r   e a r s   . . .   (it's okay, we used q-tips)

Oddly, this turned out to be a nice follow-up to our last podcast, "Hello."  Nic sent us this eerie "found sound" that came with a 1970's Revox reel to reel recorder that his neighbor was throwing away after a yard sale back in 2002.  Unfortunately, he doesn't know the spooky guy on the tape, nor does he know Sandy.  But hopefully she's either kicked her habit ... or at least ditched this scary friend.

"I have always been attracted to found sounds, the kinds of things you find in thrift shops with the LPs.  When I heard this, I knew I had to share it with others that have this interest.  It's kind of voyeuristic in a way."

Nic's a video producer who's been rediscovering the joys of audio.   You can hear more of Nic's recent foray's into audio at these fanfreakingtastic sites:

• "Circus Clowns" (week 70) @ Tape Findings
• "Stupidity Realized" (#18) @ 99 Ways to Tell a Story
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Beginning with a simple question - ÃïïWhatÃïïs the most amazing thing youÃïïve ever experienced?Ãïï - Elephantoms takes the listener on a true wildlife adventure, from the rainy coast of North Carolina to the parched deserts of Namibia Ãïï in search of wild, South African elephants.

We met Todd during a podcasting presentation at the Duke Center for Documentary Studies, during one of their Summer Audio Institutes. We recorded the audio that surrounds it the next night.  Many thanks to CDS front porch revellers Nikki, both Bens, Jamie, Rachel, Jon and Carol for lending your debauchery to this podcast.  I'm as sorry as you are relieved that I could only use this much of the tape from that evening.

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