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Comment for "Green at Home and Abroad"

Green 101

With a full minute of this segment used for music and credits, the remaining time should hopefully be chockful of green 'bites'. The information presented about thinking greener is a good, basic beginning, but the actors sound, painfully so, like they're reading from the script rather than having a real time conversation with each other. It makes the piece sound hokey, and as if it's being dumbed down for an uneducated audience. Something upbeat, and faster moving could impart the same information without sounding patronizing. It's a great idea poorly executed.

Comment for "Whole Foods is a grocery store. Get over it."

what can you tell me....?

I laughed my way through this piece. Fast, funny, and dangerously close to the sad truth.

Comment for "Missed Connections" (deleted)

Kerry Fletcher

Posted on December 14, 2008 at 05:41 PM

missed conception (deleted)

Sorry, just didn't get the point of presenting this. Would've liked it to be....more. Much more. An intro might help or some social comment - a point of view. I found it to be a very bare-boned piece, when I was looking for something light but juicy. If you have 3 minutes take a listen and feel free to disagree. though!

Comment for "Hunting for the Hungry"

Review of Hunting for the Hungry

Salt Institute again turns out a well-crafted piece that delivers. The story unfolds smoothly; is seamlessly bound and enriched by pertinent background sounds of the hunting prep, the meat-cutting, the end destination. A unique way of expanding our urban-centric concept of "food bank". Well thought out, well written, and a very interesting finished piece.

Comment for "The Sound of Young America Holiday Special 2007"

Review of The Sound of Young America Holiday Special 2007

Catchy pop tunes with sly lyrics, and dead-pan humour, all wrapped up in a tonge-in-cheek Christmas package. Good fun, easy to listen to, and some laugh out loud moments make this a really great alternative to the saccharine programming that pops up at this time of year.

Comment for "Picking Up the Pieces"

Review of Picking Up the Pieces

I've just started listening to pieces from the Salt Institute---slices of life from Maine, and am hooked. This piece was so touching and directly from the heart and guts of the women who made it. Strength, vulnerability and truth anchor this piece and give it some hefty weight. Homophobes be gone! These women are standing proud! A really fine, human story.

Comment for "The Little Things: What does it Mean to Be An Environmental Citizen in an Unsustainable Culture?"

Review of The Little Things: What does it Mean to Be An Environmental Citizen in an Unsustainable Culture?

Paige Doughty's debut is a concise and well thought out piece about the complexities and conflicted emotions of the modern day environmentalist. If you have ever experienced guilt about your personal environmental practices or lack of them, this piece will strike a chord. Interviews with people at different stages in their environmental development offer glimpses of recognition, justification and hope for those of us trying to find our way. Carefully chosen music complements the entire arrangement. Paige asks a tough question, and offers no easy answers. Ultimately she leads us to reflect on our own environmental impact, and to ask ourselves what more we can do.

Comment for "Memorial Day: "Good Muslims, Great Americans""

Review of "Good Muslims, Great Americans"

As a Canadian I couldn't resist listening to this, given the conflict and struggle that America has had in recent history. I was hoping for a reflective and hopeful piece, and I found it to be both. I was fully engaged listening to personal accounts of being Muslim in the military, and discovered the pride, as well as conflicted emotions, of American-born Muslim veterans. An historical audio clip of Eisenhower embracing Muslims into American mainstream culture, added a wonderfully tolerant juxtaposition to the dominant religious viewpoints of today. The ending is slightyly abrupt, and could use an extro, but it doesn't detract from the overall quality of the work. At a time when American and MIlitary are practically synomymous, this was a thoughtful, intelligent and human piece about some of the ups and downs of being Other.

Comment for "Pulse Pool"

Review of Pulse Pool

This well-crafted piece presents an intriguing example of the marriage between art and technology. Rich with sounds of the dripping "pulse pool" and lively children in the background, the questions of what makes the pulse pool art and how technology is changing the definition of art, arise amid the natural hum of museum life. Challenging traditional expectations and offering food for thought, "pulse pool" is a good listen.

Comment for "Generation Next: Sex"

Review of Generation Next: Sex

The work highlights that little has changed for teenagers. Sorting out the conflicting and confusing messages of society and sex hasn't become any easier. Depending on your culture, it may have become even harder. For instance, the girls in Africa have more opportunities available to them than previous generations, but as teenage mothers, their reality hasn't caught up to their potential. Strongly biased towards the voices of girls,and exceedingly heterosexual in its reporting, it is a disappointingly predictable and very soft article. It doesn't offer any surprises or grand insights, which I admit I was hoping for, but did a dependable job of filling 20 minutes.

Comment for "Vinyl Cafe May 20th, 2007 "Ron Sexsmith"" (deleted)