MEDUSA CITY INC.

Jake Brukhman is Co-Founder at CoinFund, a group that does Blockchain research, advisory & cryptoasset investments. He writes for regularly for Medium.com and is the Editor of The Blockchain Investments Blog, and PROPS Project. He sits down for a conversation on Blockchain, Bitcoin, Cryptoassets, and the future. 

Anya Sapozhnikova is the co-founder and co-creative director of House of Yes, one of the most electrifying, colorful, life-affirming, and community-enhancing performance venues in NYC history. Born in Moscow, Anya performs widely as an aerialist while presiding over one of the most diversely-attended, joyous, rollicking, tolerant, and sex-positive venues New York City has ever seen. She joins us for a vivid conversation about performance, logistics, consent, vision, and community. 

Dr. Ryan Abernathey is an Assistant Professor in the
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Columbia University and the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory. He's also a husband, father, and a close friend of Medusa City Inc. host, Allen Guy Wilcox. He sits down for a cup discussion about ocean science, science literary, data science, atmospheric studies, fluid dynamics, health care, the fun of science, and programming in Python. It's a fun-loving and rich conversation that sheds light on academic fundraising and oceanic and atmospheric studies. 

Alex Reeves is the founder of Vanish Works, a multimedia company that explores emotional response and narrative using immersive technologies including virtual reality and real-time data collected from audiences. He sat down with us for a conversation on everything from virtual reality to podcasts, "right to repair" to jury duty, The Glass Bead Game to Harry Potter, plus working with the bands, Caveman and Blonde Redhead. 

Marco Agnolucci is an actor and comedian, a film critic, and screenwriter, and a soulful friend. I met Marco in Paris in 2000. On this episode of Medusa City Inc. we discuss hip-hop, film, success, discipline, books, being kind, NYC over the ages, Paris over the ages, 10,000 hours, Visconti & Tarkovsky, Paul Newman, Martin Scorsese, Movie Pass, Metrograph, Tarantino, Kurasawa, Biggie & Tupac, RZA & GZA, Ben & Josh Safdie, Kurasawa, Donald Trump, Italy, pasta, parents, Mobb Deep, buying records on the release date, and spirituality. It's our longest podcast to date, and the most laughter-filled.

Adin Lenahan is a performer, writer and receptionist. They work in a leasing office in FiDi and are pursing their MFA in Playwriting at Hunter. They are also on the board of Undiscovered Countries, a Brooklyn-based incubator of new and developing works. They sat down to discuss a huge variety of ideas, people, and issues, from sexual assault, #MeToo, and Harvey Weinstein, to theatrical performance, Quentin Tarantino, Lars Von Trier, Nicole Kidman, Fake Melania, child actors, and John Wayne Gacy's brain.

Nancy Brown is a strength and movement coach based out of JDI Barbell in Long Island City. She has participated in Bikini Competition and powerlifting and currently trains in Olympic Weightlifting. She is currently at work on her masters thesis in the Columbia University Writing Program. She sat down to talk to us about how she got involved in bodybuilding; her training, experience, life story, philosophy and writing career.

Alexandra King is a writer and journalist born in Nottingham, England, who now resides in New York City. Alexandra details her education and working life, highlighting her relationships with the poetry of Philip Larkin, the novels of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, putting a microphone on Leonardo DiCaprio, and making President Barack Obama smile. 

Jyll Hubbard Salk is an entrepreneur, a yogi, a mother, and creator of Urban Asanas, a yoga studio for the community of Crown Heights, Brooklyn. On this episode, she talks to host Allen Guy Wilcox about traveling to India as an African-American woman, operating a growing business amidst a dramatically changing neighborhood, and the wish she holds for herself and others. Recorded on the last day of September 2017. 

Andrew Bishop is a high school English teacher in the East Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. His secret life is spent as singer and guitarist in melodic rock band, Women in Love. On this episode, he talks with host Allen Guy Wilcox about those people who encouraged and inspired him as he was growing up. He talks about his work/life balance, and performs a beautiful acoustic rendition of Women In Love's new song, "Are You Sure?"