TALK AT TEN with See The Dirt filmmakers and colleagues, Chelsea Hernandez and Erik Mauck

It's always sweet to see the people who've worked with you succeed in making a really good documentary film but to interview them was especially gratifying.  In this case, I couldn't be more proud than to spotlight Chelsea Hernandez and Erik Mauck on Marfa Public Radio's TALK AT TEN.

http://marfapublicradio.org/blog/talk-at-ten/documentary-profiles-a-young-man-who-collects-vacuum-cleaners/

full-length KRTS/ KXWT interview with John Sayles at SXSW

One of my heroes...

http://marfapublicradio.org/blog/talk-at-ten/independent-filmmaker-john-sayles-opens-up-on-his-career-new-film/

Latino Public Broadcasting funds production for Children of GIANT !

http://www.current.org/2013/04/nine-media-projects-receive-latino-public-broadcasting-funding/

SXSW REPORTING, 2013

I had the great privilege of playing public radio journalist at SXSW along with veteran print media report, Pete Szilagyi.   We filed five installments for KRTS and KXWT in West Texas, four of which are linked below.  Perhaps it was my role as reporter this year but I could not suppress the excitement at learning and watching so much great work and discussion.  I am not exaggerating.  They attract some of the most interesting people in the world of film and interactive media; many of those people have already combined those worlds in to one vocation.

Here are four out of five of the installments:

http://marfapublicradio.org/blog/talk-at-ten/south-by-southwest-festival-update/

http://marfapublicradio.org/blog/talk-at-ten/wednesday-sxsw-festival-update/

http://marfapublicradio.org/blog/talk-at-ten/friday-sxsw-festival-update/

http://marfapublicradio.org/blog/talk-at-ten/sxsw-festival-wrap-up/

Move over, Maestro B.

Mateo on music notation and dinosaurs, Feb., 2013

KUT News piece on private water well drilling in Austin

For those who don't listen to KUT News as religiously as I do, here's a piece I did on private well water drilling.  It happened to run on the rainiest morning in Austin since last September !

Amid a trickle of regulations, private water well drills on in Austin

Mateo and the last Christmas present of 2012