Unplug, Together with Tiffany Shlain, Internet Pioneer
Webby Awards founder and Emmy-nominated filmmaker Tiffany Shlain chats with host Ellie Knaus about how we can reboot our relationship with technology.
Thank goodness for the internet. We crave connectivity in these isolating times - and I felt so lucky this month to be able to meet my best friend's baby over Zoom - but what connections are we missing when we're glued to our screens?
In this conversation, we examine our own impulses when it comes to social media, newsfeeds, and online shopping, and we discuss what can be gained - in loving connections and creativity - if we follow in our guest's footsteps and take a "technology shabbat" one day a week.
Shlain's bestseller 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week is now available in paperback (8/20/20). Think you could do it? Listen up!
x Ellie Knaus
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Our sound engineer is Owen O'Neill and our composer is Jeremy Turner.
About Our Guest: Tiffany Shlain
Tiffany Shlain is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker, founder of the Webby Awards, and author of the national best-selling book 24/6: Giving up Screens One Day a Week to Get More Time, Creativity, and Connection. The book, which recently won the Marshall McLuhan Outstanding Book Award, explores what technology amplifies and what it amputates, all told through the lens of her family’s decade-long practice of going off screens for a full day weekly for what they call their Tech Shabbat. The Museum of Modern Art in New York premiered her one woman “Spoken Cinema” performance Dear Human in February 2020. She lectures and performs worldwide on the relationship between technology and humanity. Shlain has received over 80 awards and distinctions for her films and work, including selection for the Albert Einstein Foundation’s initiative Genius: 100 Visions for the Future, being on NPR’s list of Best Commencement Speeches, During quarantine, Tiffany has been writing weekly newsletters, giving online talks and is hosting a #ZoomChallahBake with special guests and people from all over the world. For information on her book, baking, films, lectures and her newsletter Breakfast @ Tiffany’s, visit tiffanyshlain.com and follow Tiffany on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Podcast Pairing:
Hollywood Director Julia Hart on Filmmaking, Confidence, and Motherhood
#219 - Julia Hart shares her personal odyssey from HS English teacher to screenwriter and feature film director. Rachel Brosnahan, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and David Strathairn are just a few of the respected actors bringing her stories to life.
In this in-studio conversation, Julia reveals how becoming a mother empowered her to step into the role of director and how motherhood influences the stories she tells. And Ellie shares an empowering matrilineal secret found in her grandmother’s locket.
Also, we discuss the importance of owning our stories as well as the sensitivities necessary in writing a character of another race.
Xx Ellie Knaus
Show Notes: Here.