{"id":71,"date":"2013-03-03T18:14:26","date_gmt":"2013-03-03T23:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jsylvest.com\/blog\/?p=71"},"modified":"2013-04-26T12:36:32","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T17:36:32","slug":"roman-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsylvest.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/roman-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"Roman Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest episode of Bullseye<\/em> includes a great interview with radio producer and podcaster Roman Mars<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"99percent-invisible-logo\"<\/a>Mars is the man behind the wonderful podcast 99% Invisible<\/em><\/a>. (No relation to OWS.) 99% Invisible<\/em> is about the design and architecture of both the extremely weird (Kowloon Walled City<\/a>, Razzle Camoflage<\/a>) to the entirely prosaic (broken Metro escalators<\/a>, check cashing stores<\/a>, culs-de-sac<\/a>) to the outright awesome (The Feltron Annual Report<\/a>, Trappist ales<\/a>).<\/p>\n

I had always thought Mars had a background in architecture. Turns out he actually went to grad school to study genetics. A lot of what he said about studying and learning and why he went to grad school really resonated with me, which is why I'm writing this post. (Besides wanting to evangelize 99% Invisible<\/em>, which I couldn't recommend more.)<\/p>\n

The only complaint I have with the interview came when Mars said that if you simply read a list of his podcast topics without listening to the show you'd think they were the most boring things in the world.<\/p>\n

I couldn't disagree more. The topics he chooses are exactly the sort of thing that lead people like me to descend into hour-long Wikipedia spelunking expeditions. (Except his investigations of them have way higher production value and are told much more artfully than the Wikipedia writing-by-committee process produces.) Don't you want to learn about how Gallaudet University designed buildings suitable for the deaf<\/a>? Or how audio engineers sound-design the Olympics<\/a>? Yes. Yes you do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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