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This is Love

Nelson’s Camera

This is Love

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.79.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In 1983, Nelson Sullivan picked up a video camera and started filming everything – going to nightclubs in New York City, shopping at the grocery store, even waiting for a flight at the airport. "He became the narrator of his own life story.” Special thanks to Kino Library for for letting us share audio from Nelson Sullivan’s videos. You can watch more of Nelson Sullivan’s work on YouTube. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2BmMZr5 We also make Criminal and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop.  Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

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0:07.0

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0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.

0:32.1

He was very handsome. He had a beautiful mustache that he kept perfectly trimmed and just had a lot of style. He had long legs and he never looked like he was in a hurry but he walked faster than anybody else.

0:44.6

It was impossible to keep up with him practically.

0:48.0

This is David Goldman.

0:49.7

He's talking about his friend Nelson Sullivan. They met in 1984 in New York City.

0:55.8

You know, Nelson lived in this fantastically weird house that was this three-story,

1:00.9

very rickety, sort of old, old house.

1:04.8

And he took me up to the second floor,

1:06.8

which is his living room, and we drank a pot of coffee

1:10.5

out of this favorite-ware electric percolator that he had.

1:15.0

And he played for me the what he said was the overture to an opera that he'd written about Galileo.

1:22.0

It was mostly on the black keys of the piano and

1:25.2

it sounded real spacey. And then we went out and walked around all over the

1:29.4

village, all over Midtown, and we ended up at the Empire State Building.

1:34.5

Nelson took me all the way to the top of the Empire State Building and showed me his

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