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# The Next Next Best Thing: Videos from The Lost Lectures NY
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/the-next-next-best-thing-videos-from-the-lost-lectures-ny/
- Published: 2014-06-12T17:17:25.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:33:20.000Z
- Description: The night was truly unique, something that can't be replicated. But it can be relived, because the videos are now online!
- Author: Jillian Steinhauer
- Tags: Hyperallergic, Choire Sicha, The Lost Lectures, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:03 (2014, 2015, part 1)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/05/s0a6592-640.jpg)

A view of the packed house at The Lost Lectures NY (© Tod Seelie)

It’s hard to believe it’s been a month and a half since we teamed up with [The Lost Lectures](https://hyperallergic.com/the-lost-lectures-ny-2014/) and brought over 750 people to the Knockdown Center in Queens for an amazing night of talks and performances. For those who weren’t there or need a refresher, we had: scientist [Marc Abrahams](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGFMV4Egzj4&list=UUQpNG%5Fl1Ggv2kc%5FkSAF8yKw&feature=share&index=2&ref=hyperallergic.com) discussing an opera about a bizarre centrifugal birthing device; photographer [Barbara Nitke](https://vimeo.com/96696365?ref=hyperallergic.com) talking about her work in the porn industry (“This is a hard job for guys — pun intended,” she quipped); dance troupe [Flex Is Kings](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlyiyAnxhd4&list=UUQpNG%5Fl1Ggv2kc%5FkSAF8yKw&feature=share&index=3&ref=hyperallergic.com) demonstrating a range of Flexing moves and styles, including bone breaking (which looks like how it sounds); transgender icon [Amanda Lepore](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRgLxLnsScE&list=UUQpNG%5Fl1Ggv2kc%5FkSAF8yKw&feature=share&ref=hyperallergic.com), owner of “the most expensive body on earth,” opening up about her life story and performing a song; writer, blogger, and anti-blogger [Choire Sicha](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgnEL06Fyq0&list=UUQpNG%5Fl1Ggv2kc%5FkSAF8yKw&feature=share&index=5&ref=hyperallergic.com) predicting the future of the internet (takeaway: think before you share); and musician [Dev Hynes](http://youtu.be/eFXBoNFDWic?ref=hyperallergic.com) (aka Blood Orange) translating his synesthesia into a mesmerizing multimedia performance.

The night was truly unique, something that can’t be replicated. *But* it can be relived, because the videos are now online! Watch them below in the order they appeared and soak in the knowledge, the talent, and the wonder of it all.

[*The Lost Lectures New York*](https://hyperallergic.com/the-lost-lectures-ny-april-25/) *took place at the Knockdown Center (52-19 Flushing Ave, Maspeth, Queens) on April 25, 7pm.*