The obvious place to explore this new frontier is online — hence the panel “Changing the Channel: The New Golden Age of TV,” which turned out to be primarily a promotional opportunity for Hulu to show off original programming from two indie filmmakers, Richard Linklater and Morgan Spurlock. Read full article on IndieWire
Speed’s new project with Director, Richard Linklater will bring history, psychogeography, and Speed together with some awe-inspiring (and some seemingly un-inspiring) landmarks.
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Time
Friday, October 22 · 5:00pm – 8:00pm 
Location
UMKC Volker Campus: Flarsheim Hall 310
5110 Rockhill Road
Kansas City, MO
Created By
Matt Dill, Umkc Pst, Kayla Sosa
UMKC PST Welcomes Timothy “Speed” Levitch!
On Friday October 22nd, UMKC’s Philosophy Honors Society,
Phi Sigma Tau, will be presenting a free screening of Richard Linklater’s
“Waking Life” followed by a Q&A with special guest Timothy “Speed”
Levitch (as seen in “Waking Life”, “The Cruise”, “We Live in Public”, “School of Rock”).
Following the event, free food will be catered by Waldo Pizza.
One need not be a member of Phi Sigma Tau nor a student at UMKC in order to attend.
Seats are available on a first come first serve basis.
Questions and Inquiries:
mddf3f@umkc.edu
kmsfy6@umkc.edu
Check out the latest interview with Speed by Outsideleft.com guru, Wayne Wolfson.
Molly Young wrote an outstanding review of her tour with Speed through Greenwich Village on Friday, July 2nd, 2010 for The Economist Magazine’s quarterly publication called “More Intelligent Life.”
In the article, she writes, “On a sunny Friday afternoon I found myself beneath the Washington Square Arch with the legend himself and nine other fans. ‘Real estate speculation,’ he began, ‘is the rudder of the boat of this story.’ And we were off. Levitch is one of those specialists whose impressive intellect has met its perfect match—the match, in this case, being New York City.
* Photo Credit: Jill Van Buren Singletary
February 27th, 2010
Timothy Speed Levitch explains the History of Alley A and its informal former name “Historic Clown Alley” during his walking tour of Broadway on Saturday. The tour, part of the True/False Film Fest, focused on little known facts about downtown Columbia and personal stories from Levitch.
November 3rd, 1998
From The Village Voice
New York City is a temporary delusion many of us are sharing and we are, all of us, co-authors of this 24-hour-a-day unfolding, frothing miracle. “Reality” is a convenient term utilized by the lethargic to label the greatest theatricality that has ever been.
October 23rd, 1998
Timothy (Speed) Levitch, the loquacious New York City tour-bus guide, sidewalk philosopher and one-man almanac of urban lore profiled in Bennett Miller’s compelling documentary film ”The Cruise,” is a man who enjoys making himself dizzy. One of his favorite activities, he confides, is to spin around under the twin towers of the World Trade Center and, when thoroughly disoriented, to look up and reel under the illusion that the buildings are toppling down on him.
September 28th, 2008
Timothy “Speed” Levitch, famed New York tour guide featured in Waking Life, School Of Rock, Adult Swim’s Stroker and Hoop, and subject of award winning documentary The Cruise, is now living in his hometown of Kansas City. Levitch and director Zac Eubank of Skinless Productions are producing weekly video blogs around Kansas City where Levitch hosts and reels off thoughts on his new love affair with the city.
November 30th, 1998
ON BEING A TOUR GUIDE: “I came to the tour route with the understanding that it is one of the great opportunities for self-expression and I do think that the people who really moved mountains in human history were all great tour guides. I do think that being a tour guide — understanding it to be a great opportunity for self-expression — enhanced my own use of language. It enhanced my understanding, if you will, that language is the instrument of life. It is the music of life, and really a shamanic journey in its own right. I do think that the frontiers of human awareness are in the language, and so that when we’re playing with the language, we are at play and frolicking in the frontiers of human awareness.”
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