Podcast episode # 12: Monday Motorbikes
Monday Motorbikes Today we’re interviewing Nathan Jauvtis (chief scientist and founder) and Michael Giuliano (Chief Operating Officer) of Monday Motorbikes. This independent, Brisbane-based company is dedicated to design, manufacture and the sale of electric motorbikes. These electric mopeds are meant to solve mobility issues. They have in mind a world with overgrown and collapsed cities. Also,…
Podcast episode # 11: Dan Gillmor
Dan Gillmor Dan Gillmor is a technology writer, columnist, and Brisbane resident. He’s the director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Also, he’s a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Gillmor is also the author…
Podcast episode #10: Dolores Gomez
Dolores Gomez Dolores Gomez, Brisbane’s librarian for 27 years, has had an intense contact with local history. As a long-time resident, she experienced a good portion of Brisbane’s history first hand. As the librarian, she had crucial documental access. These two facts provided the necessary background to undertake the project of a book on Brisbane…
Podcast episode #09: Ann Thyme-Gobbel
Ann Thyme-Gobbel, UX & VUI designer with an eye on cognitive science and an ear to phonetics Ann Thyme-Gobbel brings her story to Coffee to Close. She’s a Brisbane-based voice-user, language-user interface, expert, and researcher. She participated in the research that led to voice recognition technologies that we today use in our phones and computers.…
Podcast episode #08: Camille Salmon
Camille Salmon Camille Salmon, the founder and director of Brisbane Dance Workshop, speaks to us about her life and coming to Brisbane. The Brisbane Dance Workshop has served the local children and artistic community for over 30 years. As a young performer, Camille was awarded scholarships to study and perform at the American Dance Festival.…
Podcast episode #07: Vanessa Garcia Of The 7 Mile House
Vanessa Garcia of the 7 Mile House Vanessa Garcia of the 7 Mile House in Brisbane brings her story to Coffee To Close. Born and raised in the Philippines, she was first a drummer in an all-girl pop band called Prettier than Pink: “we were a one-hit wonder.” After six years with the band, she…
Podcast episode #06: Tony Press
Tony Press Today we’re interviewing writer Tony Press. Before settling in Brisbane, he became a lawyer and first worked as a legal aid attorney in Arizona and Wisconsin. After that, he came back to California and started working as a criminal defense attorney, for about 12 to 13 years. After some pretty serious cases and…
Podcast episode #05: Tom Seawell
Award-winning commercial advertising photographer and filmmaker Tom Seawell and I have a chat. He has over 20 years of industry experience. After graduating from the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara in 1990, Tom returned to his native Bay Area. It is from Brisbane California that he has developed most of his successful career.…
Podcast episode #04: Nancy Colman
Nancy Colman Brisbane Village Helping Hands Our interview is with Nancy Colman Brisbane Village Helping Hands. Nancy Colman, a New Yorker by birth, moved to the Bay Area in 1973 and Brisbane in 1980. In 2009, she and Moria Lukas founded the Brisbane Village Helping Hands, a grassroots, all-volunteer community organization whose mission is to…
Podcast episode #03: Kevin Fryer
Kevin Fryer Kevin Fryer is from Illinois and a resident of Brisbane California since the late 1970s. He’s a classical-trained musician with a passion for baroque music and wood working. As a result Kevin became one of the world’s best harpsichord builders. Most noteworthy he built his first instrument in 1980 and started his business…
