Iconoclast of Things
Iconoclast of Things is about people so committed to the beauty of the thing they imagine that they’re doing whatever they can to build it. People working to build a home, a business or a life they believe may already be lost, but still working because of the beauty, grace, and humanity of the place they imagine.
- Update frequency
- every 19 days
- Average duration
- 34 minutes
- Episodes
- 18
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2018
Episode 18 - Possibly the Complications
Before he ever saw the ICE Warrant ordering his removal from the United State, Victor Herrera describes this one point in his life as an immigrant in the United States like this, "I feel like I’m in …
00:34:15 |
Fri 16 Mar 2018
Episode 17 - The Book I Read
When I was in fourth grade, there was this box in the back of our classroom. It was filled with multi-colored tabs with stories and questions printed on each. Our teacher was Ms. Evans, yes, she was …
00:49:58 |
Wed 14 Feb 2018
Episode 16 - Looking through windows: a 4,000 mile walk to say I love you. Then 8,000 miles more
This is the story of how Unbound, one of the midwest's largest non-profits, was formed from the vision of a man with a very different take on charity and giving. In November of 1981, Kansas City Miss…
00:33:10 |
Fri 13 Oct 2017
Episode 15 - Washington Bullets: The Martyrdom of Father Stanley Rother
On September 23rd Father Stan Rother will be the first American born martyr beatified by the Catholic church. Though it’s the story of Father Stan Rother, this one doesn’t end in death. Stan Rother w…
00:34:44 |
Tue 19 Sep 2017
Episode 14 All of God's Money - A Sofa, A Mass, and The 27th Out
This is the first time I’ve uttered out loud these words: my lady has cancer.
00:25:03 |
Thu 07 Sep 2017
Episode 13 - I'll Be You; The Autistic, The Abolitionist, and The English Paper
In 1917 a german man named Charles Huffman was making fabric dye in five gallon enamel pots in a vacant store in Chicago. He named his product RIT dye in honor of his friend, Louis Rittenhouse, a vic…
00:35:29 |
Sat 05 Aug 2017
Episode 12 - An Interview with Mayor Sly James
If you want to know what it’s like to sit behind Mayor Sly James’ desk, best not ask him; he’d have to find about 20 minutes in his schedule to clear the space to sit there. There’s two-feet of work …
00:29:37 |
Mon 17 Jul 2017
Episode 11 - Breaking Rocks in the Hot Sun Part 2
To look at the future of Harrison Street DIY Skatepark, I need to be explicit about a few things: First, they did build on land they have permission to build on, but no real agreement. They choose a …
00:29:03 |
Wed 28 Jun 2017
Episode 10 - Breaking Rocks in the Hot Sun, Part 1
For 30 months, a crew of volunteers have been building the Harrison Street DIY skate park in an abandoned cul de sac in Kansas City’s Columbus Park Neighborhood, at 4th and Harrison.
What started o…
00:31:52 |
Mon 12 Jun 2017
Episode 9 - Run Baby Run
Since 2011 I've run a few thousand miles along the Indian Creek and Blue River Trail. I run this trail because it's safer here than running on the surrounding roads. As much as I think about my own s…
00:34:55 |
Mon 29 May 2017
Episode 8 - The Silver Screen and All the Magazines
The first Chapter of Lipstick traces is called "The Last Sex Pistols Concert." That show was on January 14th, 1978 at the Winterland in San Francisco. The opening band was this San Francisco punk roc…
00:35:18 |
Fri 12 May 2017
Episode 7 - Horizons Get Hazy
Throughout human history, structures like the Lighthouse of Alexandria served as a welcoming beacon for the traveller, eaching out to guide them through the perils of a place they may have never seen…
00:31:11 |
Wed 19 Apr 2017
Episode 6 - The Distance Between You and Me, Part 2
This second episode looking at refugee musicians in the US is the story of a Kurdish family. A musician father, his wife children and the story they share with one another — whether they realize it o…
00:28:31 |
Tue 04 Apr 2017
Episode 5 -The Distance Between You and Me Part 1
This is the first episode telling the stories of some musicians who’ve come to America as refugees. It’s a creation odyssey. The creation of Kuomba Ministries. Like any odyssey, this one involves dea…
00:33:15 |
Mon 20 Mar 2017
Episode 4 - Emotional Rescue #VeryImportantPicco
If you’ve never had your heart broken and want to see what it’s like, get a dog. Picco and I have run over 5,000 miles together. We’ve touched two oceans. He’s been with me at shows in bars across t…
00:35:57 |
Mon 06 Mar 2017
Episode 3 - Everywhere At Once
Over the past month, we’ve had a lot of activity around immigration and refugees and I've been thinking a lot about Presidents. So I started reading what past American presidents have said about it. …
00:44:25 |
Mon 20 Feb 2017
Episode 2 - AmericanGuitars
What can electric guitars teach us about the American economy? Big Box retail may have spurred some innovative manufacturing techniques. Automation, robotics, CNC carving; all of it means we can make…
00:36:37 |
Thu 02 Feb 2017
Episode 1 - Houses of Concrete and Wood
Our first Thing is Blue Dawn Manor, the neighborhood I grew up in. I used to play baseball in the Healys’ back yard. It was the infield which made my back yard dead center field and the Smith’s pool …
00:29:33 |
Tue 03 Jan 2017
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