59: The Last Laugh
Israel Story
English - October 27, 2020 07:00 - 43 minutes - 81 MB - ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsJudaism Religion & Spirituality israel palestine jewish stories Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Forty years after Carl Sagan’s ‘Golden Records’ began their long voyage into the depths of outer space, Eyal Gever - an Israeli high-tech-wunderkind-turned-conceptual-artist - received an unusual call: NASA asked him to create the first artwork to be printed in space. What, he now had to decide, truly captured the essence of humanity?
Joel Shupack scored and sound-designed the episode, with original music and additional music by Blue Dot Sessions, Broke for Free and Nehora & Hadas. Sela Waisblum created the mix. Yochai Maital and Mishy Harman edited the episode. The music and lyrics of the end song - “Leil Emesh” (“Last Night”) - are by Naomi Shemer. The song used in the episode is a cover version by Nehora Kakone and Hadas Fraenkel.
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