GBA 289 - Shane Solanki

Published: March 15, 2017, 10:50 a.m.

b"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.\\n\\nContent note: mental health issues\\n\\nShane plugs:\\n\\nThe project he is currently developing called The Miseducation of of Lunar Khan\\nHis website: http://lastmangoinparis.net/\\nMangoes are forever: https://www.facebook.com/mangosareforever\\nShane Solanki on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shane.solanki.5\\n\\nI plug:\\n\\nThe Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/\\n\\nWe mention:\\n\\nAngela: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-26-angela\\nIndustrial Revolution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution\\nWes Anderson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes_Anderson\\nTim Burton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Burton\\nIsle of Dogs (film): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Dogs_(film)\\nSpirit Level: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Spirit-Level-Equality-Better-Everyone/dp/0241954290\\nStevie Wonder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevie_Wonder\\nPaul McCartney: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McCartney\\nEbony and Ivory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZtiJN6yiik\\nWhat About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: http://www.mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/\\nUnder the Skin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Skin_(2013_film)\\nChaps Choir: http://www.chapschoir.com/\\nDominic Stichbury: https://twitter.com/domstich\\nSuffragettes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffragette\\nAbolition of Slavery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolition_of_slavery\\nGhandi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghandi\\nMartin Luther King: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.\\nGene Sharp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Sharp\\nPaul Hawkin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hawken\\nBlessed Unrest: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blessed-Unrest-Largest-Movement-Restoring/dp/0143113658\\nYou are brilliant the earth is hiring: http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/columns/you-are-brilliant-and-the-earth-is-hiring\\nBuckminster Fuller: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller\\nAnthropocene: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocene\\nBrian Eno: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Eno\\nStuart Brand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Brand\\nWhole Earth Catalog: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Earth_Catalog\\nThe Long Now Foundation: http://longnow.org/\\nElon Musk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk\\nBuddha: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddha\\nMicheal Sandel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J._Sandel\\nHarvard Ethics and Law: http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/law_ethics_society/\\nJainism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jainism\\nSum: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sum-Tales-Afterlives-David-Eagleman/dp/1847674275\\nhttp://www.eagleman.com/blog/eagleman-and-eno-perform-sum\\nDavid Eagelman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Eagleman\\nPossibilian: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possibilianism\\nDark Matter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter\\n\\nHelp more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review?\\n\\nFollow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word!"