Celebrate Creativity
This podcast is a deep dive into the world of creativity - from Edgar Allan Poe and Walt Whitman to understanding the use of basic AI principles in a fun and practical way, as well as some of the greatest historical figures whoever lived, as well as some who never did!
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Fallingwater Dreams, Part One
Welcome to the what should be the first of two episodes looking at Fallingwater and the house from a musical perspective– and this episode is Fallingwater Dreams. Part one This podcast episode begins with Mr. George Bartley talking ...
Tragedy Strikes
Welcome to the second episode in this miniseries about Frank Lloyd Wright. This is George Bartley in a wax museum in the city of Chicago, and we are talking to a wax figure of .the great architect himself. When we left Frank was talking abou...
The World's Greatest Architect
Welcome to the Hall of Imagination –my name is George Bartley and today I'd like to talk with one of my heroes.And seated behind a desk is a rather elderly gentleman and a suit and straw hat.Could you tell me who you are sir,?...
The Weight
Finally! This is the concluding episode for The 700-Pound Pineapple There are moments when an ordinary object stops being ordinary. It becomes a symbol. It gathers meaning until it weighs far more than any scale could meas...
The Unfinished Story
In the previous episode, I talked about Dostoevsky, but I want to emphasize that the author does not offer a cheerful slogan. He offers recognition. He knows that illumination and darkness can occupy the same life. And in this episode, I wan...
The Idiot
Welcome to Celebrate Creativity. This is Part Five of The 700-Pound Pineapple, an episode I call “The Idiot.”In the first episode of this series, I talked about my own experiences w...
The Wheelchair as Freedom!
I had never expected a wheelchair to feel like freedom.That may sound strange. Most of us grow up thinking of a wheelchair as a symbol of limitation. In movies, television programs, and even ordinary conversation, someone is sa...
A Pig on Ice
Welcome to Celebrate Creativity - and this is the third of a series called the 700 pound pineapple - an episode that I call Pigs on Ice. Whereas in the last episode, I ended on a relatively elevated tone with musings about creativity - in this ...
The Pineapple and the Playbook
It was agreed that every week the church people would bring roughly 4 bags of groceries– food that was certainly welcome at first. It may not have been the greatest food, but that is not really an issue when you're hungry. Then the food pant...
Did Bob Dylan Cause My Seizures?
Hello, my name is George Bartley, and I'd like to welcome you to Celebrate Creativity–this is basically the introduction to a six part series called The 700 Pound Pineapple - and if that title doesn't make much sense right now, stick with me...
Pineapple Promo
What does a pineapple weigh?And no, due to the incredibly personal nature of this podcast series, I will leave the wax museum format for several episodes to talk about an actual experience and how I responded and did not respond to a ramifi...
Monster?
Welcome to Hall of Wonder - part of Celebrate Creativity. Today I want to start exploring Shakespeare's play–Macbeth.And here is the wax figure character of Macbeth, himself. You know Macbeth, I will get directly to the point. Some people call ...
The Island Speaks!
Welcome to the Hall of Imagination - and today I'm speaking with one of the characters of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest. And today's episode is entitled “CALIBAN: THE ISLAND SPEAKS”First I better briefly fill you in on the openin...
Plagues!
Welcome to the Hall of Imagination for the episode “Plagues”The strange thing about an invisible enemy… is that you can’t glare it down.You can’t bargain with it.You can’t even boo it off the stage.WILL (dry):...
A Fascination with Language
Welcome to the second and final episode of Master Shakespeare and myself as we discuss parallelism, and a few other matters. We begin in the Hall of Imagination in a Chicago wax museum at night.Mr. Bartley: Master Shakespeare,There...
Words Become Music
Welcome to the Hall of Imagination for an episode with William Shakespeare called words become music. And here is Master Shakespeare himself as as he explains one of the most commonly used rhetorical devices of them all.Mr. Bar...
WHERE PASSION RULES
Welcome to the Hall of Imagination - this episode is called Opposites!Tonight’s rhetorical device is antithesis.You might say that the rhetorical device of ANTITHESIS is a perfect “Shakespeare in conversation” device because ...
Repeating at the Beginning
This podcast is Celebrate Creativity and this series is Hall of Imagination. My name is George Bartley.GEORGE (Host):Now—quick note for listeners: today we’re talking a little bit more about a rhetorical device that S...
Persuasion on the Stage
And this person here must be shakespeare’s teacher.-Hic Latīnē tantum loquimur.Pardon me.I said that we only speak Latin here.But I don't know Latin. Could you speak in English?Well, yes, ordi...
One, Two, Three!
Welcome to Hall of Imagination–and this is the first in a series of episodes about William Shakespeare. And here we have a wax figure of the BARD himself. And personally, let me say as an actor that I am really excited about the prospect of lea...
Love Me Tender
Mr. Presley, I'd like to begin in Tupelo, move through Sun Records and the explosion of the 1950s, and then spend time with Vegas ., the pills, the isolation, and the wreckage.Mr. Bartley, it seems that you really knew about m...
Rock’s First Guitar Hero
Permit me to tell a very short story about something that really happened. Years ago, I saw Chuck Berry live at the Paramount Theatre in Manhattan. I later learned that a few years after that, the Paramount Theater was completely sh...
Allegations
I'd like to begin the final part of this two part series regarding Michael Jackson by looking at late 1993. Yes, Mr. Bartley, in 1993, I proposed to Lisa Marie Presley, the daughter of Elvis Presley, over the phone. We were married i...
