This week on ‘The Stack’ we speak with Arman Naféei on his new kiosk at the heart of Hollywood’s Sunset Boulevard, Kiosk-o-thèque, a clever mix of gallery, bookshop and podcast studio. Plus: how can a food magazine cover the upcoming US elections? Jamila Robinson from ‘Bon Appétit’ tells us how. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Hello and welcome to the Stack.
For this week's show I had the pleasure to speak with Armand Nafay, host of podcast Are we on Air?
And the owner of a new kiosk located opposite the famed Chateau Marmont hotel.
Plus Jamila Robinson from Bonapet magazine.
Tell us how a food title can cover the American presidential election.
Enjoy the show.
From Midori Housing London, this is the stack.
30 minutes of print industry analysis and I am Fernando Gustav with to start the show in LA via London, where I had the pleasure to welcome to our studio Armand Nafe, a man of many projects including the podcast Are we on Air?
And now responsible for a brand new kiosk in Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard.
It's called Kiosk Hotek and it is a clever mix of gallery, bookshop and podcast studio.
It tell us more about the kiosk and why a newsstand is always a good idea.
I always had an eye on this newsstand on Sunset Boulevard right across the Chateau and then it shut down with the Pandemic and Are We On Air?
Which is my music brand.
It started as a music podcast kind of, you know, we started doing these pop ups around the world.
The first one, we took over a kiosk in Berlin, right Unter Den in Linden, right in front of the Brandenburger Gate during gallery weekend right after the Pandemic and had guests of the podcast come and play or talk or sign or whatever, from Wolfgang Tillman to Paul Kalkbrenner to Lucas Abbat and so forth.
We just realized we've got something here.
The concept of high culture, public and free on the street.
I love that.
And you know, you engage with of course your audience, you know, the people that come for you or the audience of the guests, but also like, you know, strangers and people from all generations and all kinds of backgrounds.
And for me, the highlight was this group of Polish construction workers who just randomly walked by when we had like some like a little livestream DJ set party in Berlin and they just, you know, bought themselves for one euro a beer across the street and came back and joined us, you know, and for me that was like the perfect image.