Author: y.mcclamrock

Episode 2, Your Dream Catcher
“Robot”

In this Episode, I invited two of my friends to help me to analyze my dreams. We used Edgar Cayce’s dream dictionary and some personal experiences.

Credits for music and sound effects:

But Enough About Me, Bill Paxton by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Artist: chriszabriskie.com/

Down With That by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Artist: www.twinmusicom.org/

8bit Dungeon Level – Video Classica by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Artist: incompetech.com/

Blipotron – Electronic Hard by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Controlled Chaos – Supernatural Haunting by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Cataclysmic Molten Core
1:40
Night Runner by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Heart of Nowhere by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Artist: incompetech.com/

Millicent
2:18
Max Surla/Media Right Productions

Firesong by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Dark Times by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Artist: incompetech.com/

The Driving Force

Jingle Punks
Cinematic | Dramatic

Evil March by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Darkness is Coming by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Strange Stuff

Matt Harris
Ambient | Dark

Dark Fog by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Deep Haze by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Artist: incompetech.com/

Night Music

Kevin MacLeod

Path to Follow

Jingle Punks

Carefree by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Carefree Melody by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Artist: www.twinmusicom.org

Thank you www.freesound.org

 

“Your Dream Catcher” is a podcast about dreams. In each episode, dreams presented as fiction stories followed by dream interpreters’ or psychologists’ analysis.

In my first episode, Paul Dorogoff, a dream interpreter, helped me to analyze my dream. Paul has been reading dreams for over 30 years. And, for the past 10 years, every Sunday, he has been leading a dream study group at Edgar Cayce’s center in New York City.

Do you ever wonder where our dreams come from? Are they creations of our consciousness or unconsciousness? In my podcast “Your Dream Catcher” I want to take you into the world of dreams where you can explore meanings of symbols, destiny, karma, and life. You can decide for yourself: are your dreams – your reality, or is your reality your dream?

How do we interpret our dreams is up to us: meanings of subjects and events appearing in our dreams are influenced by our own perceptions and experiences. For instance, a snake for you can mean fear. But for another person, it can mean luck. Therefore, dreams are very individual and indicate something that only you can relate to.

 

Thank you www.freesound.org for hosting the amazing sound creators whose music I was able to mix in the first episode:

InspectorJ “Ambience Wind Chimes”

InspectorJ “Wind Synthesized-a”

Insintesi “Deep Space”

Walter Odington “Lunar Wind”

Justkiddink “Waves Crashing on Stone Jetty”

Gnrja “Ocean Waves 2”

Selector “Chimes”

Boogago “Castle Melancholy”

Boogago “Moonshine”

Karma Ron “Stars Collide Blur”

Bmccoy2 “A Wind Chimes 113014lincolnne24degrees75hi

Scale 75 “Ab Moonlight Atmos”

 

Illustration by me www.yuliarocks.com

 

The pitch:

My podcast will be called “Fantasy or dreams.” This podcast will contain short fiction stories based on my dreams. Each story will take listeners into a fictional world that will focus on a certain philosophy of life and examine numerous hypothetical ideas “What if…?” In the first episode, I will introduce a fiction story “Robot.” It’s about technology’s influences on our world. What may happen with us in the future, if…? The following episode will be called “Moon catcher” a fiction story about a woman who got stuck on her 3333rd reincarnation. Its pivots are karma, past, numerology… and of course reincarnation. In the third episode, “Quest for a Sirin” the focus will be on a hypothetical meaning of creativity, particularly art, shadows and reading the signs that surround us daily.

In our days when new dating apps are popping up like mushrooms during the fall, anyone with a smartphone can have an access to it. Anyone! Not only millennial, their parents, as well, found their way in online dating. Our reporter, Yulia Rock, spoke to above 40s singles in New York City.

I am here with Joe Danger at his friend’s apartment on Upper East Side. He is sipping a beer and swiping left and right, well mostly right on the Bumble app because he thinks that the best-looking women are on there. Joe is 54. He uses a fake online name, inspired by Anthony Winner’s nickname “Carlos Danger.”

“He used that fake name when you know he was trying to get girls.”

Joe has been using online dating apps and sites for nearly two years. By now he has a profile on almost all of them including Tinder, Bumble, Coffee meets Bagel, Okcupid, hinge, happen, the league, match …He heard about online dating only from his single friends. And after his recent divorce, at first, he was very excited to try out the apps and spent hours searching for the right match. However, his fire soon has depleted.

“Now 5-10 min max a day, I don’t even want to meet too many people anymore. One or two I am dating now, nothing serious, but maybe it will be.” His new scenario of dating also changed.

“I want to talk less and less, sometimes you talk a lot and get along very well and then you meet, and it does not work. So I text a bit and ask them for a coffee.”

Eventually, Joe learned that online dating can get expensive too, so he stopped doing dinners. He felt that some women were taken advantage of his generosity and simply used him to get free meals. But things like that happen to the best of us. Even outside of online dating.

Stephan Corillo, 42 years old New York-based chief, has a bit different perspective on the online scene. He, unlike Joe, does not believe in online dating. From his experiences, he learned that people are often dishonest in their profiles. Most of his “coffee” online dates turned into friendships. But, Corillo is really keen about online hooking up.

“I use Grindr, Adam for Adam, etc. Hooking up is a daily thing for me. I go in and in an hour I am having sex. Could be one, two, three times a day. It’s too easy.” Even though his online hooking ups are easy, sometimes they get risky too.

“I don’t know what I did, but he suddenly said, “If you don’t get out of my room in 2 minutes, I will kill you.” And he was like this big guy. I was so scared, I had to jump out. He threw my clothes to me, and I was in a hallway, naked; changing in front of an elevator, sweating, scared because this guy from the room was still screaming, “I can still see you, get out. I will kill you.” I got out of this thinking that I would never do it again.” That near-death experience did not deter Corillo for long.

“The next day, I was still horny, I hooked up with three guys.”

Corillo admits that it is dangerous, and he has to choose his battles carefully.

There are nearly 54 million single people in America and 49 million of them already tried the online dating, as recent Statistic Brain research Institute estimated. In addition, over the past few years, the number online daters between ages 35-54 increased by over 20%. And the recent Statistic Brain research concluded there are more men, 52.4%, out there fishing for their mate than women.

“Some women online who just want a friend, but I don’t need one. I am trying to have a romantic relationship. I think it’s possible,” Danger still hopes for romance even if it’s online. Corillo, on the other hand, truly believes that his love will be found through real-life dating.

Danger still hopes for romance even if it’s online. Corillo, on the other hand, truly believes that his love will be found through real-life dating.

Thank you for listening.

It was Yulia Rock for Baruch College.

 

I am apologizing for the late pitch submission. I had a hard time to decide what could be interesting. If you don’t mind, can you please advise which if the two topics have a promising potential.

1. Seamless kills restaurant industry in NYC

I have a friend who recently opened a restaurant in Soho. One of his first comments, after being opened for a few months, is that how harmfully Seamless and other similar platforms affect his restaurant. Instead of going out for a nice dinner his clients prefer to stay in and order something out. Which is still a somewhat of an income for restaurants, but Seamless’ 20% fee cut the income too close.

It is not the first time I hear that story. When I worked in restaurants, owners were always stressed about high seamless orders especially during lunchtime. I am thinking to interview waiters from various restaurants and chefs.

This topic was in the news last year. I have not seen anything else about it recently in the news, and, therefore, would like to explore it.

2. Fashion photography, behind the scene world

I am planning to interview an up-and-coming fashion photographer Arton Sefa who just recently shot for German Vogue and was signed with a talent agency Sonja Heintschel. I want to introduce listeners to the insight world of the glamorous fashion magazines’ pages where most of the time creators of behind the scene world are overshadowed by big brands and fashion models. I want to learn what it takes to be commissioned for established designers and publications. What is the process, how much photographers earn, who comes up with ideas for the photo shoot, how hard/easy to get models, designers clothes, locations? In addition, what it means to be signed with a talent agency? How much of the commissions the talent has to share with an agency? Does the agency bring more jobs or photographer still has to search for jobs?

Aside from the upcoming fashion week in Paris, I think fashion photography is relevant to today’s situation in the fashion industry because access to the cameras is wide open and anyone with an interesting angle has an equal chance to shoot for magazines and maybe brands. Yet, it is not only talent, it is also politics and connections. Who knows who? I am curious to know how new names can break into the industry. Does social media have any input?