Frank Warren is the creator of the popular blog PostSecret,
an online collection of 4 x 6 postcards displaying secrets
sent to him from strangers all over the world. The blog
gets 2.3 million unique visitors a month, is counted as
one of the top blogs in the country and has spawned four
books. The third "The Secret Lives of Men and Women," is
currently a New York Times bestseller. Stephanie Wilbur
Ash and Geoff Herbach talk to Frank about anonymity, humanity,
artfulness and how his small, community art project led
to receiving hundreds of thousands of postcards.
Heather
McElhatton St. Louis Park, MN Interviewed by Stephanie
Wilbur Ash & Geoff Herbach March
1, 2006 | MPR | Pretty
Little Mistakes
Heather McElhatton is an independent radio producer and host
for Minnesota Public
Radio and Public
Radio International. Her novel, Pretty Little Mistakes (out
in May, from Harper Collins), is the first choose-your-own-adventure
novel for adults. It's also her first published novel, but not
the first one she's written. Here, she talks fate, choice, writing
maniacally and how it feels to rise from the ashes of your own
perceived failures and then write a book that allows the reader
to both fail and succeed.
Heather McElhatton is an independent radio producer and host for
Minnesota Public Radio and Public
Radio International. Her novel,
Pretty Little Mistakes, is the first choose-your-own-adventure
novel for adults. It's also her first published novel, but not
the first one she's written. Geoff Herbach and Stephanie Wilbur
Ash Heather talk to Heather about fate, choice, maniacal writing
and writing a book that allows the reader to both fail and succeed.
Dennis Cass Minneapolis,
MN Interviewed by Stephanie
Wilbur Ash & Geoff Herbach August
1, 2007 | Blog
Dennis Cass is a writer, journalist and occasional teacher
and public speaker. His work has appeared in the New
York Times Magazine, GQ, Slate, Harper's Magazine and
Restaurant Business, where he once wrote an informative,
exceptionally well-crafted article about pudding. Stephanie
Wilbur Ash and Geoff Herbach talks to Dennis about being
on tour with his brain book: "Head Case: How I Almost
Lost My Mind Trying To Understand My Brain."
Sandy
Beach Minneapolis, MN Interviewed by Geoff Herbach January 1, 2007 | Web
site
Sandy Beach was awarded a month's residency to the Ezra Pound
Center for Literature in Merano, Italy in 2005. As a Loft Mentor
participant, she studied and read with poet Elizabeth Alexander.
She writes and reads poetry in response to art at various Minneapolis
galleries with TalkingImageConnection. Geoff Herbach talks
to Sandy about poetry, art and her thesis, "Women artists,
their lives and their work." Sandy reads "Overhead
in the Actual World."
Megan
Mayer Minneapolis, MN Interviewed by Geoff Herbach December 1, 2006 | Web
site
Megan Mayer is a choreographer and dancer who frequently
choreographs out of her kitchen. Her work has premiered
at Walker Art Center, Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater, Bedlam
Theater, Southern Theater, Creative Electric Studios
and Hennepin Center for the Arts Studio 6A. Geoff Herbach
talks to Megan about her new solo work to premiere entitled "Unfit," which
appears to be an intermingling of John McEnroe and bossa
nova.
Watch
clip of "Scout"
Scott
Seekins Minneapolis, MN
Interviewed by Geoff Herbach | Photos
by Karen Kopacz November 1, 2006 | Special
thanks to Jeff Kearns for audio assistance.
Scott Seekins is everywhere in the Twin Cities. Best known for
his many paintings of madonnas and former owner of Madonna.com,
Scott is best known for strictly wearing black in the winter and
white in the summer, usually in the form of a stylish suit, and
even when fly fishing. In his latest project, he invites various
photographers to document Scott holding cardboard signs with abstract
messages on busy streets, most notably, in front of the Walker
Art Center. Geoff Herbach talks to Scott, perhaps the Twin Cities'
best-known, least-understood iconic personalities, about his own
history and the state of the arts in general.
