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I’m ready for my close-up: The art of Paper Rad

Alex Fitch interviews Jacob Ciocci and David Wightman, members of the band Extreme Animals. Jacob is also a member of the art collective Paper Rad (for whose videos David has supplied sountracks) and while they were in Europe touring with their band Alex spoke to them about the Paper Rad exhibition showing at Sketch Gallery in London which Jacob curated. Paper Rad are famous for their low-fi DIY videos, art and comics which mix fanzine indie aesthetics with the detritus of our generation’s pop culture…
As their exhibition closes Saturday evening and IRFMCU is being podcast only this month, in a break from tradition, this week’s I’m ready for my close-up is available to download now (30 hours early) to give our listeners a chance to get down to Conduit Street and check out the installation…
(mp3 format, 27.4mb)

For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Links: Wikipedia’s page on Paper Rad
Sketch Gallery’s press release about the show: PDF format / HTML format
Sketch Gallery’s website
Paper Rad and Deitch Projects‘ Super Mario Movie

N.B./ The following links are not suitable for viewing if you suffer from epilepsy; if you choose to click on them, it is your responsibility!
Paper Rad‘s website
Paper Rad comics
Extreme Animals‘ myspace page

Marvin Suicide : 133 – Jogger’s nipple

I can’t think of anything to top the previous episodes description, so please refer to that one if you are looking for something to read that is not of a factual nature.

Please find below the tracklisting for this episode along with links to where all the items were found:

1. 1000 Dollars by Autopsy Protocol, Umami:
www.entity.be

2. Lloriao by Bacanal Intruder, Modem:
www.zymogen.net

3. Siren by Dave Seagrim, Resolute:
www.notype.com/nishi

4. The Fifth Wheel by Giraffe, Dusty Windows EP:
www.12rec.net

5. North Coast by Darren McClure & Lezrod, Data Transfer:
www.zymogen.net

6. . by Tupolev, Tupolev EP:
www.12rec.net

7. Promptrain by Le Cantin, Canadian Biz:
www.1bit-wonder.com

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This episode was not broadcast, so there. Please visit www.marvinsuicide.org for previous shows and more information. Plus I would love it if you were to send an e-mail to: marvin’AT’marvinsuicide.org (please replace ‘AT’ with @).

Panel Borders: The art of Glenn Fabry

Glenn Fabry

Alex Fitch interviews artists Glenn Fabry and John McCrea, two very different artists who have worked on comics in Britain and America and have both illustrated strips by writer Garth Ennis. The majority of today’s show is concerned with Glenn’s work from his seminal run on Sláine in 2000AD to his epic run of painted covers for DC comics’ Preacher which are available in a coffee table book.

Towards the end of the show Alex talks to John McCrea about the 60 issues he drew of Ennis’ superhero satire Hitman (and their interview continues next week).
This episode of Panel Borders was first podcast on 13th August 2007… (mp3 format, 18mb)
For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Links: Wikipedia pages on Glenn Fabry , John McCrea, Sláine, Preacher and Hitman
Glenn’s website

Hooting Yard : Jean-Claude Unanugu

If you spend a bit of time thinking about the matter, it becomes apparent that human ingenuity has created a myriad of pastes. At one end of the spectrum are thick pastes, tacky to the touch, and at the other are pastes so runny that they are akin to goo.

spectrum.jpg

There are other ways of thinking about the variety of pastes other than the thick-to-thin or tacky-to-goo spectrum, but they have less appeal. Why is this? Not surprisingly, it is a question to which Dobson once turned his magnificent pamphlet-writing brain.

  • Goofy, Macabre
  • Tacky To Goo
  • Song Of The Grunty Man
  • Name That Boy!

This episode of Hooting Yard was first broadcast on the 13th May 2007. A complete transcript of this episode can be found on Frank Key’s Hooting Yard website. Accompanying Hooting Yard On The Air, the two publications Unspeakable Desolation Pouring Down From The Stars and Befuddled By Cormorants are available for purchase. Photo by barto.

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I’m ready for my close-up: Running Stumbled with John Maringouin

Continuing I’m ready for my close-up‘s exclusive run of online podcasts*… Virginie Sélavy interviews John Maringouin, director of the documentary Running Stumbled, whose film is a semi-improvised recreation and document of the self destructive relationship between the director’s father and his partner. The first part of the interview was included in last month’s Art-House Podcast and tonight’s show is edited by Alex Fitch… Originally podcast 9th August 2007 (mp3 format, 42.4mb)

*While Resonance FM moves studios across London… The podcast only shows will then be broadcast on FM in the Autumn

Links: Official movie homepage
Read a partial transcription of Virginie’s interview in Electric Sheep Magazine
Info about the remaining screenings of the film at the ICA
For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Marvin Suicide : 132 – That’s crazy talk

There comes a point in everyone’s life when they realise the appropriate placing of apostrophe’s. Unfortunately I am yet to reach this point.

Marvin suicide isn’t only a music programme which obtains its content freely and legally from the internet, marvin suicide is also a platform for free speech, equality and the right to inform others of alternative lifestyles. You probably only notice the music though.

Here is the tracklisting for this weeks episode:

1. Don’t Forget The Clit by Djrnd3k:
www.c8.com

2. One Thousand Days by Markus Brosel. Cipher EP:
www.monohm.com

3. My Geography by Kozo Ikeno, Overlooks EP:
www.stasisfield.com

4. Bore by Ekkis, Ekkis:
www.minlove.net

5. Pacto de Silencio by Lanark, Ovnis A Mogollon:
www.comfortstand.com

6. Steve Irwin Song by Normal For Norfolk:
www.myspace.com

7. Impuestos by Chuancho, Profilaxis:
www.inoquo.com

Resonance needs your support. Please help raise some desperately needed funds and donate. “You don’t know what you’ve got until its gone…”

This episode was not broadcast, so there. Please visit www.marvinsuicide.org for previous shows and more information. Plus I would love it if you were to send an e-mail to: marvin’AT’marvinsuicide.org (please replace ‘AT’ with @).

Panel Borders: The art of Steve Yeowell

Steve YeowellAlex Fitch and Duncan Nott interview artist Steve Yeowell, a 2000AD veteran who has worked on both sides of the Atlantic. Yeowell achieved early fame collaborating with Grant Morrison on the superhero epic Zenith and the first storyline in The Invisibles plus more esoteric titles such as The new adventures of Hitler, Sebastian O & Skrull Kill Krew. More recently Yeowell has returned to 2000AD working with Ian Edgington on such scripts as Detonator X and The Red Seas…

In comics news: This weekend it’s Caption Fest 2007 in Oxford where small press artists and writers present their work and there’re workshops presented by awawrd winning graphic novelist Al Davidson (The Spiral Cage).

Also: The Observer has launched a competition to find new comics artists and writers so if you think you can create a short story using pictures, word balloons and captions that fits on a single page of A4, visit Random House’s Graphic Novels website for more details.

As Panel Borders is currently podcast only, you can stream today’s show now… (mp3 format, 12.3mb) For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Links: Wikipedia entry on Steve Yeowell Interview with Steve at 2000adreview.co.uk
Excerpts from The new adventures of Hitler at Scans Daily
Tashkeel Comics’ website

Hooting Yard : Drainpipe Trousers

In the old town of Plovdiv, Ugo plopped his pod onto a stool. Ugo’s ma said, “Ugo, why are you using a pod instead of a jar?” Ugo’s ma was blind, but she knew that the plop of Ugo’s pod was different to the plop of his jar. “Oh, ma,” said Ugo, “My jar is in the shed.” Ugo’s ma bashed Ugo on the head. “Never leave your jar in the shed, Ugo,” she said, “When you do I will bash you on the head, as I just did.” Ugo said, “Sorry, ma. My pal Ulf put my jar in the shed.” “Ah,” said Ugo’s ma. On Thursday last. In a hovel. In the old town of Plovdiv.

shed.jpg
  • Puny And Dying
  • The Man Who WOuld Be Dobson
  • Drink Ye Every One The Waters Of His Own Cistern, Until I Come And Take You Away
  • Ugo Goofs Off
  • Ugo’s Pal Ulf
  • Ugo’s Pod
  • Ugo’s New Hooter
  • Ugo Turns Blue
  • Ugo Goes Loopy

This episode of Hooting Yard was first broadcast on the 6th May 2007. A complete transcript of this episode can be found on Frank Key’s Hooting Yard website. Accompanying Hooting Yard On The Air, the two publications Unspeakable Desolation Pouring Down From The Stars and Befuddled By Cormorants are available for purchase. Photo by lucienvenutian.

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I’m ready for my close-up: Larger than life part two

Continuing I’m ready for my close-up‘s exclusive run of online podcasts*, it’s the second of two shows looking at the largest of large screen cinemas. In part two, Alex Fitch interviews Dennis Laws, the technical and general manager of the BFI London IMAX cinema, about the eclectic mix of films shown at the IMAX cinema, from ‘after dark’ presentations of classic and cult movies, the current interest in IMAX prints of Warner Bros. (comic book) movies and the possible future of the format…
Original podcast: 2nd August ’07 (mp3 format, 27.4 mb)

*While Resonance FM moves studios across London… The podcast only shows will then be broadcast on FM in the Autumn

Links: Wikipedia page on IMAX
What’s on at the BFI London IMAX?
The official IMAX homepage
Article from The Observer about how American creationists are objecting to IMAX science documentaries
Article on the closure of the @Bristol IMAX cinema
Giant Screen Cinemas Association website
Article on recent films converted to the IMAX format
For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Art house Cinema: Podcast #4

Yes, we know it’s really late again, but you can now hear Resonance FM‘s latest Art House cinema podcast featuring reviews of films released in July at ‘Art House’ cinemas in London and is presented by Alex Fitch, Virginie Sélavy (editor of Electric Sheep Magazine) and Jessica Fostekew (a member of the comedy improv group The Institute, who is in a variety of shows at the Edinburgh festival)…

Films reviewed include Edmond, Taxidermia, Buy it now and Running Stumbled.

Links: You can read print versions of Jess and Alex’s reviews at backprojection.com and Virginie’s in Electric Sheep Magazine

For more info and a variety of formats in which you can listen, please visit the home of this podcast at archive.com (mp3 format, 30mins / 29.3mb)