Jocelyn Gonzales

Design critic Philip Nobel finds something transcendent about what most of us would consider an eyesore — the Bayway oil refinery on the edge of the New Jersey Turnpike.

Qawwali is a bridge between the human and the divine. Ishrat Ansari, of the Pakistani cultural foundation Virsa, and Robert Browning of the World Music Institute talk about the transporting sound of the devotional folk music of the Sufi Muslims.

(Originally aired: November 10, 2001)

In the two-dimensional universe of Japanese anime, animals assume extraordinary powers.

Contemporary composer Eve Beglarian obsesses over numbers, and plays her right brain against her left. 

Designer Ken Carbone finds delight in his local hardware store.

Design for the Real World: Backpacks

Jazz music has a long tradition of loving and sly portraits. Music historian and Village Voice jazz critic Gary Giddens takes us through some of them.

Kurt Andersen surveys the rich supply of alien characters in the movies. 

The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet died Tuesday at 87. In 2001, Kinnell told Studio 360 that when his sister was dying, a poem by William Butler Years offered immense solace to them both.

Erick Gonzales tells the story of his tattoo and its connection to his culture and his family.

Poet Bob Holman lives just a few blocks away from where the World Trade Center used to stand. He reads a piece he wrote about those first few weeks after the terrorist attack when, like most of America, he felt terribly afraid.  

Qawwali is a bridge between the human and the divine. Ishrat Ansari, of the Pakistani cultural foundation Virsa, and Robert Browning of the World Music Institute talk about the transporting sound of the devotional folk music of the Sufi Muslims. 

Producer Jocelyn Gonzalez visits the Walter Thompson Orchestra that improvises sound paintings. Conductor and composer Walter Thompson has been developing a gesture-based conducting style since the 1970s that actually allows the orchestra — along with dancers and singers — to improvise entire compositions. 

Albania's national folk-singing treasure adjusts to a new life in America.

(Originally aired: April 28, 2001)

Twenty-four years after arriving in the U.S., a young Vietnamese-American poet returned to Saigon with his father. Quang Bao reflects on how the visit forced him to redefine his notion of home.

(Originally aired: April 28, 2001)

Dumpster-diving fashion designer Todd Oldham finds creative inspiration from trash.

(Originally aired: March 17, 2001)

Feng Mengbo, the first digital artist to come out of China, debuts his latest project, a very personal animated storybook, on the web site of the Dia Center for the Arts.

Albania's national folk-singing treasure adjusts to a new life in America.

Twenty-four years after arriving in the U.S., a young Vietnamese-American poet returned to Saigon with his father. Quang Bao reflects on how the visit forced him to redefine his notion of home.

A brother and sister find solace in William Butler Yeats' Lake Isle of Innisfree.