PUTF Podcast

PUTF Podcast — Season 4, Episode 5 featuring Jon Dieringer Jon Dieringer is the founder and editor-in-chief of Screen Slate. He has written for BOMB, TIME, n+1, and elsewhere. He has programmed many screenings and series, most notably at Spectacle (2011-2015), Anthology Film Archives, Roxy Cinema, Low Cinema, and many other venues both in NYC and abroad. His video work has shown at spaces including MoMA PS1, the Squeaky Wheel Art Center, Salon 94, and The Museum of Arts and Design. From 2012-2021 he oversaw the preservation and archiving of moving image artwork as the Technical Director of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI).screenslate.com Jon’s Film & Video Programming: https://jondotd.com/film-and-video-programming/Screen Slate's IG: https://www.instagram.com/screenslate/This episode was recorded at Public Sound Studios in NYC: https://www.publicsound.net/PUTF’s interview series is dedicated to spotlighting inspiring creatives from the PUTF community and beyond. Guests share their unique career journeys, stories, and visions. Pick Up The Flow, is an online resource based in NYC striving to democratize access to opportunities. Opportunities are shared daily on this page and website, and weekly via our newsletter.Newsletter: https://putf.substack.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/pickuptheflownyc/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@pickuptheflow#jondieringer #nyc #screenslate #filmculture #repertorycinema #film #movingimage #nycculture 

PUTF Podcast — Season 4, Episode 4 featuring Bob BellerueBob Bellerue is a sound artist, experimental musician, sound/video curator, and A/V technician based in Ridgewood NY. Over the last 35+ years he has been involved in creating and producing a wide range of sonic activities – experimental music, sound art, junk metal percussion, soundtracks for dance/ theater/ video/ performance art, Balinese gamelan, and sound / video installations. Bob’s sound work is based in improvised free-noise within multidimensional feedback systems, using amplified instruments, objects, decontextualized field recordings, and resonant spaces, processed by electronics and software written in the Supercollider audio synthesis programming language.Follow Bob:https://www.instagram.com/halfnormal/https://www.instagram.com/endetymes/ bobbellerue.netEnde Tymes 1616-18 April 2026Pioneer Works and TV Eye Tickets: halfnormal.com/endetymes PUTF’s interview series is dedicated to spotlighting inspiring creatives from the PUTF community and beyond. Guests share their unique career journeys, stories, and visions. This new 4th season is shortened to approx. 30 minutes, with guests invited to focus on their projects and current work.Pick Up The Flow, is an online resource based in NYC striving to democratize access to opportunities. Opportunities are shared daily on this page and website, and weekly via our newsletter.Newsletter: https://putf.substack.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/pickuptheflownyc/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@pickuptheflow#bobbellerue #noise #nyc #music #endetymes #festival #soundart #experimental #curator #nyc #community 

PUTF Podcast — Season 4, Episode 3 featuring Ali Rosa-SalasAli Rosa-Salas is a curator who believes that the arts are a public good. Raised by a Nuyorican family in South Brooklyn, she draws creative inspiration from New York City’s cultural ecosystems. Ali is currently the Vice President of Visual and Performing Arts at the Henry Street Settlement and director of the Settlement’s Lower East Side cultural institution, the Abrons Arts Center. When not at Abrons, she is probably taking a very long walk. Follow Ali:https://www.instagram.com/prdiva09/Photo courtesy of Ali.Mentioned in the episode:Abrons Arts Center: https://www.abronsartscenter.org/Abrons EXP: https://www.abronsartscenter.org/programs/abrons-expDeadline: April 12th, 2026PUTF’s interview series is dedicated to spotlighting inspiring creatives from the PUTF community and beyond. Guests share their unique career journeys, stories, and visions. This new 4th season is shortened to approximately 30 minutes, with guests invited to focus on their projects and current work.Pick Up The Flow, is an online resource based in NYC striving to democratize access to opportunities. Opportunities are shared daily on this page and website, and weekly via our newsletter.Newsletter: https://putf.substack.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/pickuptheflownyc/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@pickuptheflow#alirosasalas #nyc #community #lowereastside #creative #pickuptheflow #entrepreneurship #curator #radio #abrons #abronsartscenter #nyc #socialservice #henrystreetsettlement #art Join the newsletter: https://putf.substack.com/and follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pickuptheflownyc/

PUTF Podcast — Season 4, Episode 2 featuring Zenat BegumZenat Begum is a native New Yorker, owner of Playground Coffee Shop, founder of Playground Youth, and an alumni of The New School. Zenat intentionally seeks to center BIPOC, marginalized bodies, the arts, and community engagement in order to foster change in a shapeshifting and gentrifying BedStuy.Follow Zenat:https://www.instagram.com/zenatbegum/Playground was founded in 2016 as a coffee shop and community space in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklynhttps://playgroundbk.net/https://www.instagram.com/playgroundbk/Playground Radio: https://www.youtube.com/@playgroundradiobkPlayground Wines: https://www.instagram.com/playgroundwines/Photo courtesy of Zenat.PUTF’s interview series is dedicated to spotlighting inspiring creatives from the PUTF community and beyond. Guests share their unique career journeys, stories, and visions. This new 4th season is shortened to 30 minutes, with guests invited to focus on their projects and current work.Pick Up The Flow, is an online resource based in NYC striving to democratize access to opportunities. Opportunities are shared daily on this page and website, and weekly via our newsletter.Newsletter: https://putf.substack.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/pickuptheflownyc/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@pickuptheflow#zenatbegum #nyc #community #bed-stuy #creative #pickuptheflow #entrepreneurship #business #radio

PUTF Podcast — Season 4, Episode 1 featuring Frankie Decaiza HutchinsonFrankie Decaiza Hutchinson is the founder of Dweller Festival, a festival platforming Black artists. Previously, Frankie co-founded Discwoman, an agency focused on representing and promoting women and nonbinary DJ producers talent. https://www.instagram.com/frankiefatgold/https://www.instagram.com/dwellerforeverGet your tix here: Dweller 6 Tickets: https://ra.co/promoters/95905Lineup: https://dwellerforever.clubMerch: https://dwellerforever.bigcartel.com/Dweller Blog & Library/Resource: https://dwellerforever.blog/libraryPhoto courtesy of Frankie.PUTF’s interview series is dedicated to spotlighting inspiring creatives from the PUTF community and beyond. Guests share their unique career journeys, stories, and visions. This new 4th season is shortened to 30 minutes, with guests invited to focus on their projects and current work.Pick Up The Flow, is an online resource based in NYC striving to democratize access to opportunities. Opportunities are shared daily on this page and website, and weekly via our newsletter.Newsletter: https://putf.substack.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/pickuptheflownyc/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@pickuptheflow#frankiedecaizahutchinson #pickuptheflow #music #nyccafe #curator #dweller #festival #career #inspiration 

The PUTF Podcast: Laraaji Interview at Dripping 2025This interview was recorded at Dripping Festival in New Jersey in June 2025.Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@pickuptheflowLaraaji is a seminal figure in ambient and New Age music—a pioneering multi-instrumentalist, composer, and spiritual practitioner. Known for his expansive body of experimental and meditative work, he has released dozens of albums and led laughter meditation workshops worldwide, weaving together sound, joy, and mindfulness into a deeply transformative practice.Laraaji’s IG: https://www.instagram.com/laraaji_official/Laraaji’s Website: laraaji.blogspot.comDripping explores the authentic connections between sound-system driven club music and the experimental avant garde.Dripping is organized by Daniel Martin-McCormick and Leo Miller. Dripping at Nowadays is organized by Daniel Martin-McCormick and Sol León. Design and website by M.C. Madrigal.Dripping’s IG: https://www.instagram.com/dripping.fyi/Dripping’s sonic archive: https://soundcloud.com/drippingfyiDripping’s website: https://www.dripping.fyiDripping's linktree: https://linktr.ee/drippingfyiLaraaji's photo courtesy of Dripping.PUTF’s interview series is dedicated to showcasing inspiring creatives from the PUTF community and beyond. Guests are invited to share their unique career journeys, stories, and visions.Pick Up The Flow, is an online resource based in NYC striving to democratize access to opportunities. Opportunities are shared daily on this page and website, and weekly via our newsletter.Newsletter: https://putf.substack.comPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/pickuptheflowInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/pickuptheflownyc/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pickuptheflowYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@pickuptheflow#laraaji #dripping #pickuptheflow#creativeprocess #artist #nyc #spirituality #drippingfestival #music #sound #career #newage #ambient #dripping #consciousness #spirituality

The PUTF Show - Episode 19 / Doug HenwoodYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@pickuptheflowInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/pickuptheflownyc/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pickuptheflowDoug Henwood is a journalist and broadcaster based in Brooklyn. From 1986 to 2013 he published Left Business Observer, a newsletter on economics and politics. Since 1995 he’s been the host of Behind the News, a weekly radio show originating on KPFA, Berkeley, that enjoys a vigorous afterlife as a podcast. He’s the author of four books, notably Wall Street: How It Works and for Whom (Verso, 1997), After the New Economy (New Press, 2004), and My Turn: Hillary Clinton Targets the Presidency (OR Books, 2016). He’s written for many publications including Harper’s, The New Republic, The Nation, and Jacobin. He’s been working for all too many years on a book on the rot of the American ruling class.Doug's Website: https://lbo-news.comFollow Doug on X: https://x.com/DougHenwoodDoug Henwood's Radio Archives: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.htmlWall Street book: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/WSDownload.htmlWe also requested Doug to share with us some of his favorite things.Catch them all in our newsletter: https://putf.substack.com/The PUTF show is an interview series, dedicated to showcasing inspiring creatives from the PUTF community and beyond. Guests are invited to share their unique career journeys, stories, and visions.The PUTF show is produced by WAVDWGS, a video production company based in NYC.https://wavdwgs.com/https://www.instagram.com/wavdwgs/If you'd like to support this project: https://www.patreon.com/pickuptheflowPick Up The Flow, is an online resource based in NYC striving to democratize access to opportunities. Opportunities are shared daily on this page and website, and weekly via our newsletter.#doughenwood #journalism #behindthenews #news #radio #economics #politics #nyc #writer #leftbusinessobserver

The PUTF Show - Episode 18 / TYGAPAWYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@pickuptheflowInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/pickuptheflownyc/https://putf.substack.com/TYGAPAW grew up as Dion McKenzie in Mandeville, Jamaica. Today, the Artist,producer, DJ and label owner resides in Brooklyn, New York, where they have spent thebetter part of a decade uplifting frequencies representative of the Black electronic musicdiaspora. Their sonic palette—informed by the dancehall of their hometown as much asit is the techno emanating from the warehouses of Detroit—has made them anindispensable figure in Brooklyn's electronic music scene.Since 2014, McKenzie has been carving spaces in New York for queer people of colorthrough their queer club night, and now label, Fake Accent. The platform is part of theirbroader mission to forge liberating spaces for marginalized people, particularly Black,queer and trans people, an agenda embedded in the various layers of the artist's work.Early records like the breakthrough EP Handle With Care (2019), Ode To Black TransLives (2020) and their debut album, Get Free (2020) established McKenzie not only asa skillful producer, but further as an emotive storyteller. Through their production, theyare known to weave together stories of queer immigrant life, radical self-preservationand Black communal joy.Their music, much like New York, is a cultural stew made vibrant by influences as localas New York's ballroom community and as distant as Berlin's hard techno circuit. In2021, one of techno's most vital institutions, the Berlin venue and record label Tresor,enlisted MacKkenzie to contribute to their 30th anniversary compilation, where themusician was in the company of techno luminaries like fellow contributors Juan Atkins,K-HAND and Robert Hood. In 2022, McKenzie brought their visionary take on techno tolife with a three-part techno opera, Devil Woman (Obeah Woman)—the first iteration ofwhich premiered at New York's The Chocolate Factory Theater, and Queens Museumbefore the project traveled to Berlin.2023, TYGAPAW's second album love has never been a popular movement, wasreleased on fabric Originals in the spring. This album is a special one for severalreasons: It's the first album the musician produced with hardware rather than Ableton,their first record that features their vocals prominently and it also sees McKenzie trytheir hand at songwriting. In eight tracks that hopscotch across atmospheric techno andEast Coast club, love has never been a popular movement addresses, with unshakableconfidence, fierce self-love and TYGAPAW's journey as a Jamaican reckoning with theirtrans identity.https://www.instagram.com/tygapaw/The PUTF show is produced by WAVDWGS, a video production company based in NYC.https://www.instagram.com/wavdwgs/If you'd like to support this project: https://www.patreon.com/pickuptheflow

The PUTF Show - Episode 17 / musclecarsYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@pickuptheflowInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/pickuptheflownyc/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pickuptheflowNative to New York City, musclecars is a DJ / Producer duo consisting of Brandon Weems and Craig Handfield. As musicians, they nod to great classic and soulful dance music, but with their added twists of transcendental jazz, deep elements, and cinematic mood. They also run the NYC staple party Coloring Lessons (now also a record label and radio show), pulling on a musical lineage passed down by the generations before them, and influenced by their black and brown ancestors. They aim to spread the music that has been influential to them, and share it with a younger generation of their peers.https://www.instagram.com/musclecars.nyc/https://musclecars.bandcamp.comSugar Honey Iced Tea! :https://musclecars.bandcamp.com/album/sugar-honey-iced-teahttps://coloringlessons.comhttps://www.instagram.com/coloringlessons/The PUTF show is an interview series, dedicated to showcasing inspiring creatives from the PUTF community and beyond. Guests are invited to share their unique career journeys, stories, and visions.The PUTF show is produced by WAVDWGS, a video production company based in NYC.https://wavdwgs.com/https://www.instagram.com/wavdwgs/If you'd like to support this project: https://www.patreon.com/pickuptheflowPick Up The Flow, is an online resource based in NYC striving to democratize access to opportunities. Opportunities are shared daily on this page and website, and weekly via our newsletter.Listen to this episode on audio platforms:Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/spotify-putfApple: https://tinyurl.com/putf-applepodcast#nyc #musclecars #artist #nyc #dj #coloringlessons #community #interview #career #artist #inspiration #motivation #podcast #producer #pickuptheflow #music