In GBA 289 we get better acquainted with Shane Solanki. We talk about identity, belonging, sustainability, masculinity, storytelling, time, science, art, connection, pain, love, change and lots more. It's a really wide ranging conversation which is both very theoretical and very personal, recorded on a sunny spring Saturday morning on a balcony overlooking a canal in Hackney Wick.
Content note: mental health issues
Shane plugs:
The project he is currently developing called The Miseducation of of Lunar Khan
His website: http://lastmangoinparis.net/
Mangoes are forever: https://www.facebook.com/mangosareforever
Shane Solanki on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shane.solanki.5
I plug:
The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/
We mention:
Angela: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-26-angela
Industrial Revolution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution
Wes Anderson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes_Anderson
Tim Burton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Burton
Isle of Dogs (film): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Dogs_(film)
Spirit Level: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Spirit-Level-Equality-Better-Everyone/dp/0241954290
Stevie Wonder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevie_Wonder
Paul McCartney: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McCartney
Ebony and Ivory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZtiJN6yiik
What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: http://www.mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/
Under the Skin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Skin_(2013_film)
Chaps Choir: http://www.chapschoir.com/
Dominic Stichbury: https://twitter.com/domstich
Suffragettes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffragette
Abolition of Slavery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolition_of_slavery
Ghandi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghandi
Martin Luther King: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.
Gene Sharp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Sharp
Paul Hawkin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hawken
Blessed Unrest: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blessed-Unrest-Largest-Movement-Restoring/dp/0143113658
You are brilliant the earth is hiring: http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/columns/you-are-brilliant-and-the-earth-is-hiring
Buckminster Fuller: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller
Anthropocene: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocene
Brian Eno: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Eno
Stuart Brand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Brand
Whole Earth Catalog: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Earth_Catalog
The Long Now Foundation: http://longnow.org/
Elon Musk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk
Buddha: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddha
Micheal Sandel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J._Sandel
Harvard Ethics and Law: http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/law_ethics_society/
Jainism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jainism
Sum: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sum-Tales-Afterlives-David-Eagleman/dp/1847674275
http://www.eagleman.com/blog/eagleman-and-eno-perform-sum
David Eagelman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Eagleman
Possibilian: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possibilianism
Dark Matter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter
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