Episode 5
Original Cablecast: June 25, 2008

• MGMT: behind the scenes with the Brooklyn-based psychedelic pop duo (one of Rolling Stone magazine’s top ten “Artists to Watch in 2008”) as they make their new video, directed by filmmaker Ray Tintori.
  
• They Call Him the Japanese Warhol: At the Brooklyn Museum, the largest retrospective ever of the playful and slightly insane work of Takashi Murakami.
  
• Chico MacMurtrie: MacMurtrie is Artistic Director of Amorphic Robot Works, a group of artists and engineers who work together on robotic art performances and installations.
  
• Artist to Artist…Tony Gerber & Britton Fisher: Brooklyn filmmaker Tony Gerber discusses his new project Full Battle Rattle with the film’s executive producer, arts patron Britton Fisher.

Episode 4
Original Cablecast: May 28, 2008

• First Saturday: the monthly arty-party at the Brooklyn Museum, a local tradition. It’s culture on the wall crossed with off-the-wall dancing.
  
• Vik Muniz: one of Brooklyn’s best-known artists talks about his photography-based works made with surprising media, from diamond dust to sugar to toy soldiers to chocolate syrup.
  
• Artist to Artist…Janine Avril & Ben Greenman: a conversation about fact versus fiction and other writers’ concerns. Avril’s memoir, Nightlight, deals with the loss of both of her parents, while Greenman, editor of The New Yorker’s Goings on About Town, has written several very funny books.
  
• Bay Ridge Drama: It’s all about passion without pay as the Narrows Community Theater (in its 37th year!) rehearses and performs Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None.

Episode 3
Original Cablecast: April 23, 2008

• Splendor in the Grass: Serge Spitzer specializes in large conceptual artworks. We follow him from his Williamsburg studio to a meadow in Connecticut, where he’s carefully placing thousands – many thousands – of tennis balls!
  
• Ten Feet, One Vision: At BRICLab, Andrew J. Nemr and four members of his tap dance company, CPD Plus, prepare a new work set to Gershwin – an a cappella version of a piano prelude. Behind the scenes at rehearsal, step-by-step, heel to toe.
  
• Artist to Artist: Simon and Simone Dinnerstein: A Brooklyn father-and-daughter conversation, about his paintings and her piano-playing. What did it mean for her to grow up with an artist for a father? What’s it like to see your daughter’s career build to include the country’s number-one classical album?
  
• Room for Rent, Only Creative Types Need Apply: Who’s at work inside the Brooklyn Artists Gym, where artists can find studio and gallery space, equipment, storage – even constructive criticism!

Episode 2
Original Cablecast: March 26, 2008

• Erik Sanko/Jessica Grindstaff: Sanko, puppeteer and musician, works alongside his artist/designer wife to create charmingly blood-curdling puppet shows which deal with themes like “The Seven Deadly Sins.”
  
• Artist to Artist (Michael Christie/John Corigliano): Christie, Musical Director of the Brooklyn Philharmonic, talks about rehearsing and conducting the music of composer Corigliano, whose works were recently featured at BAM.
  
• "Brooklyn is Burning" at Glasslands Gallery: a 1970’s-style psychedelic happening in Williamsburg, featuring strobe lights and nude dancers – except for the body paint.
  
• Meta & the Cornerstones: live at a club and in rehearsal, meet Senegalese reggae singer Meta Dia and his band-from-everywhere, the Cornerstones.

Episode 1
Original Cablecast: February 26, 2008

Brooklyn Independent Television launches its new monthly arts and culture show with a profile on the Mark Morris Dance Group (including a behind-the-scenes peek at a rehearsal of their new work King Arthur); a feature on Tom Otterness, a Gowanus-based sculptor best known for his whimsical brass public sculptures on view in places like Metrotech, NY Botanical Gardens, and the 14th Street stop on the A/C/E subway lines; and, lastly, a conversation between Danny Simmons (creator of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam) and jazz photographer Fran Kaufman.