Influence

  • Rock vs. Cancer, A Review

    Rock vs. Cancer, A Review

    3–4 minutes

    Every once in a while, something cuts through the noise and reminds you why you started doing this at all. I watched Rock vs. Cancer and I was in tears by the end of it. It snuck up on me like a flash flood. The film follows John Grabski III, a musician dying of cancer,

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  • A Talk with Todd Rundgren

    A Talk with Todd Rundgren

    8–12 minutes

    Picture this: It’s 1991. I’m 14 years old, standing in the Exploratorium in San Francisco with my dad, about to watch Todd Rundgren—the Todd Rundgren—give a lecture on digital recording formats. If you weren’t alive in 1991, let me set the scene: Digital recording was revolutionary and borderline mystical. Most people were still dubbing cassettes

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