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Designing a New Symbol for the South Wasn't Easy
Over the summer, we asked the design firm 70kft to take on our most recent Redesign challenge: coming up with a symbol for the American South. You can see the team's final project here. Gus Granger is...
View Article9 of SNL's Best Political Sketches Ever
This weekend, Donald Trump is scheduled to take the stage of Studio 8H to host Saturday Night Live for the second time. In case you hadn't heard, Trump is also currently running for President, which...
View ArticleYour Wonderful Holiday Shorts
For the past month, Studio 360 host Kurt Andersen and comedian Jenny Slate have been asking our listeners to spread a bit of holiday cheer and send in a 30-second short film about the holidays — any...
View ArticleWhat's Your Creative New Years Resolution for 2016?
For the last three years, Studio 360 has been asking you to make a New Years Resolution that's way more fun that diets or exercise: we want to hear what creative project you're going to take on next...
View ArticleIn The Big Short, Christian Bale Ditches Extreme Dieting for Extreme Drumming
Christian Bale has earned a reputation for being an incredibly intense Method actor. Remember that time he subsisted for four months on an apple and a can of tuna a day to lose 63 pounds for "The...
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"Human Intelligence: A Holiday Tale"
Way back in 2011, Kurt Andersen wrote a new piece of fiction for a collection of stories edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio: "Stories: All New Tales." It's a holiday tale ... of a sort. "Human...
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Studio 360's Best of 2015
This year, Studio 360 brought joy to Mondays, took a trip across the multiverse, and designed a new symbol for the South. Nick Offerman challenged us to build things out of popsicle sticks; B.J. Novak...
View ArticleFunny or Die's Tiny 'Landlord': Where Is Pearl Now?
Adam McKay’s new movie, “The Big Short,” is all about the 2008 financial collapse. But long before he tackled sub prime mortgages, McKay made it big with a short about that nagging monthly obligation —...
View ArticleMad Max Will Have a Life After George Miller
Fresh off the success of "Fury Road," writer and director George Miller has two more "Mad Max" scripts in the works already — largely because the lengthy delays on the last film gave him and fellow...
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The Best Things Michael Ian Black Has Done That We Couldn't Squeeze into Our...
Michael Ian Black's new book "Navel Gazing: True Tales of Bodies, Mostly Mine (but also my mom's, which I know sounds weird)," is great, and you should read it. But he also has a wonderful oeuvre that...
View ArticleWhy Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu Pities Donald Trump
The Oscar-winning director Alejandro González Iñárritu has never been shy about his support for immigrants — or his disdain for anti-immigrant rhetoric. In an interview with Kurt Andersen, Iñárritu...
View ArticleTeach Me How to GIFy
Sharing GIFs is easy. Making GIFs is a bit harder — but only a bit. There are lots of great tools you can use to enter our GIFy Valentine challenge, and you don't need any special equipment. Many of...
View ArticleDirectors' Cut: Alejandro Iñárritu
Filming “The Revenant” in the freezing cold of Alberta nearly did him in, but Alejandro González Iñárritu isn’t complaining. “That’s our job,” says the director. His last film, “Birdman,” won big at...
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Our Favorite Valentine GIFs, From You
For Studio 360's My GIFy Valentine challenge, we're asking you to send us a valentine (in GIF form) for the person, place, or thing of your choosing. It can be joyful or sad, earnest or sardonic,...
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The Greatest Penguin GIFs on the Internet
Studio 360 is hosting a GIF valentine challenge that ends today, Monday, February 1, at midnight. We're calling the contest My GIFy Valentine, and we're asking you to release all those Valentine's Day...
View ArticleDirectors' Cut: Adam McKay
Adam McKay has made his mark on comedy many times over. But the director of “Anchorman” and “Talladega Nights” switched gears in his latest movie, “The Big Short,” which is about the financial collapse...
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Reversing Direction on Highway Fonts
Last week, the U.S. government made a big graphic design decision without fanfare. The Federal Highway Administration quietly withdrew its approval of Clearview, the typeface that’s been showing up on...
View ArticleDirectors' Cut: George Miller
Back when Jimmy Carter was president, an Australian director named George Miller made his first, super-low-budget movie. It starred a little-known Australian actor named Mel Gibson. “Mad Max” was a...
View ArticleDirectors' Cut: Lenny Abrahamson & Emma Donoghue
Emma Donoghue’s 2010 novel "Room" tells the uncomfortably real story of a young mother and her 5-year-old son held captive in an 11-by-11-foot room. The boy narrates the book, and not only does he not...
View ArticlePlay Awards Bingo: 2016 Oscars Edition
Watching the Academy Awards on Sunday, February 28? Join a Studio 360 tradition and play bingo with us!The awards shows have turned into parodies of themselves: stars thanking their lawyers, refusing...
View ArticleDirectors' Cut: Tom McCarthy
Investigative journalism isn't sexy or glamorous. It’s making lots and lots of phone calls to strangers — and to people who don't want to talk to you. It's reading endless boring documents. It's...
View ArticleTake Our Movie Jobs Quiz
Job titles in movie credits can be confusing. After all, if politicians avoid gaffes, why do movie sets have gaffers? Why does an inanimate object like a script need a supervisor? And what, exactly, is...
View ArticleDirectors' Cut: Ridley Scott
The director Ridley Scott is one of a very rare species: a director of influential films that have also been commercially successful. His movies have covered a huge range of settings and genres, from...
View ArticleYou Won't Believe Who Almost Directed "Alien"
Ridley Scott got his big break directing the first “Alien” movie in 1979. But when he spoke with Kurt Andersen on the latest episode of Studio 360’s Directors’ Cut podcast, he said he almost didn’t get...
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Bonus Track: Tavi Gevinson + Olivia Bee
Olivia Bee started taking pictures at 11 when she meant to enroll in a video course but ended up in a photography class. She became obsessed with the medium, and started posting her photos online —...
View ArticleWatch: Studio 360 Live with Wyatt Cenac and The Story Collider
As part of our ongoing Science & Creativity series, Studio 360 is hosting a sold-out live storytelling event on Tuesday, May 10th, in collaboration with The Story Collider. But if you can't make...
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Diving Deep for Site-Specific Art
Making the trek to site-specific artworks like Walter De Maria's "The Lightning Field," Maya Lin's "Storm King Wavefield," or Robert Smithson's "Spiral Jetty" folds the journey of getting to the art...
View Article360 Live: Wyatt Cenac Drives Drunk (for Science)
Wyatt Cenac is a comedian and former correspondent for The Daily Show. He’s no scientist – but while completing a community service requirement in high school, he conducted a little experiment to...
View Article360 Live: Herman Pontzer Ends Up in the Hot Seat
Herman Pontzer is a professor of anthropology at Hunter College, where he investigates human and ape evolution. A few years ago, while studying the Hadza hunter-gatherer tribe, Dr. Pontzer’s experiment...
View Article360 Live: Dr. Rachel Yehuda Misses Her Rats
Rachel Yehuda is a professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. For years, Dr. Yehuda researched PTSD by measuring stress hormones in lab rats. But when she...
View ArticleThe Golden Record Remastered
BUY TICKETS HEREWHEN: Tuesday September 27 at 7pm WHERE: WNYC's Jerome L. Greene Space (44 Charlton Street, New York)What message should we send into the depths of space to represent humanity?That was...
View Article360 Extra: Philippe Petit, Man on Wire
On the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, we wanted to revisit Kurt’s conversation with an artist who had a special relationship with the World Trade Center site.It had all the glamour,...
View Article360 Extra: So Long, Edward Albee
Edward Albee died last week, at 88. His most famous play, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” marked his Broadway debut and won Albee his first Tony Award. It’s a searing play about the toxic love we...
View Article360 Preview: The Short-Fingered Vulgarian
Kurt co-founded "Spy" magazine in 1986 — and Donald Trump was a fixture from the very first issue. In this sneak peek of this week’s episode, Kurt talks with "Spy" co-conspirator (and current "New...
View ArticleStream Live Tonight: Studio 360 Remembers the Golden Record
In honor of the 40th anniversary of the Golden Record, Studio 360 and Science Friday are teaming up for an evening of music, culture, and science — featuring Ira Flatow, Maria Popova, Terrance...
View ArticleBrit Bennett on Church, Racism, and Her Novel “The Mothers”
Brit Bennett came to prominence in a way that was unheard of in the literary world a generation ago. She published a piece about racial justice in Jezebel in 2014, and it provoked a huge discussion...
View ArticleSpooky Scary Studio 360: Alice Cooper
In anticipation of Halloween, Studio 360 is sharing some of our favorite spooky segments from our archive.No musician has died more often or more dramatically in front of more people than Alice Cooper....
View ArticleSpooky Scary Studio 360: Making Haunted Houses Scarier
In anticipation of Halloween, Studio 360 is sharing some of our favorite spooky segments from our archive. Ike Sriskandarajah brings a story of how a composer’s visit to a haunted house made him...
View ArticleSpooky Scary Studio 360: She Sees Your Every Move
In anticipation of Halloween, Studio 360 is sharing some of our favorite spooky segments from our archive. Photographer Michele Iversen captures strangers in private spaces — without their permission....
View ArticleSpooky Scary Studio 360: How to Make Your Skeleton Scary
Happy Halloween!Jack Handey, thinker of Deep Thoughts, takes on the ultimate holiday question: If a skeleton’s not scary, what’s the point of having one? He offers a few tips on how to make your...
View ArticleLive from New York, It’s Election Night!
Nobody defined the satirical style of “Saturday Night Live” more than Jim Downey. He wrote for the show for over 33 seasons and was SNL’s head writer for 10 years. Downey gives us a behind-the-scenes...
View ArticleDJ Shadow’s Record-Breaking Album
Twenty years ago this week, DJ Shadow set a Guinness World Record for creating an album made up entirely of samples, many of them from LPs he rescued from the 50-cent bin. But “Endtroducing” is also...
View ArticleRemembering Ultra-American Musician Leon Russell
Leon Russell passed away last week — he was 74. During the 1970s, he forged a musical career unlike almost anyone else’s before or since: an ultra-American mix of country, blues, gospel, and rock n’...
View ArticleSharon Jones's Soul Revival
Sharon Jones burst onto the music scene about 10 years ago — she was backed by The Dap-Kings, a straight-out-of-the-1960s funk band with a fantastic horn section. And at just 5 feet tall, Sharon had...
View ArticleIt’s Only Post-Natural
If you take a trip to your local natural history museum, you’ll likely discover the story of our planet told through vast collections of species, vibrant dioramas and exhibits on the evolution of life...
View ArticleVince Guaraldi: A Charlie Brown Christmas
Nothing takes the edge off the holidays quite like the soundtrack to “A Charlie Brown Christmas” by Vince Guaraldi. The jazz musician and composer always wanted to write a standard. And since the...
View ArticleHuman Intelligence: A Holiday Tale
Kurt Andersen’s version of a Christmas story doesn’t have your typical talking snowman or mistletoe. Instead, this holiday tale involves extraterrestrial surveillance and melting polar ice caps. "Human...
View ArticleThe Eerie Familiarity of "Man in the High Castle"
The Man in the High Castle, the Emmy Award winning TV series, imagines a world in which the Nazi’s won WWII. Set in the 1960s, the show blends actual pop cultural imagery and artifacts with fictional...
View ArticleKurt's Favorite Conversation of 2016
Jack Viertel is a human encyclopedia of musical theater. He’s the producer of hit Broadway shows like “Hairspray,” “Kinky Boots,” and “The Producers.” And he’s also the artistic director of Encores, a...
View ArticleMarilyn Monroe’s Long-Lost Skirt Scene
Marilyn Monroe’s most iconic moment — standing over a subway grate as her white dress billows up — was originally filmed in Manhattan in 1954. But a crowd of onlookers forced the producers to reshoot...
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