Congestion charge telephone call. Film editing equipment is sent down a rubbish chute from the 14th floor, Ground Zero (Otomo
Yoshihide) Standards: A better tomorrow/I say a little prayer. Recording of an automated answering machine for registering for a congestion charge in London. Followed by the sounds of film editing equipment; heavy rewind handles, metal spools, film cans and other items which were sent down a rubbish chute from the 14th floor of a block of flats in EC1 London. Sony ‘Professional’ Walkman cassette recorder, microphone placed inside the rubbish chute.
Monthly Archives: September 2008
Free University – De Quincey Gets Stoned
Dr Ed Baxter: De Quincey Gets Stoned.
The programming director of Resonance FM and co-editor of the Works of Thomas De Quincey discusses the essayist’s autobiographical sequence “A Sketch from Childhood” (1851, 1852).
Electric Sheep podcast: (Re)visiting Dark City
Electric Sheep podcast: (Re)visiting Dark City
(Illustration by Tom Humberstone / Vented Spleen)
An episode of The Electric Sheep Magazine Podcast – Alex Fitch talks to Eagle Award winning comic book artist Tom Humberstone about Dark City – the underrated 1998 sci-fi film noir which has been recently rereleased in an extended director’s cut.
For more info, please visit the home of this podcast at www.archive.org
Links: Read a print extract at Electric Sheep Magazine
Tom’s website ventedspleen.com
Official Dark City website
In association with: 
The Bike Show: Around the world the hard way (part two)
Alastair Humphreys has cycled round the world ‘the hard way’: four years, sixty countries and forty-six thousand miles. In the second of a two part special he tells the story of his epic adventure: from Mexico to Alaska, through Siberia, Japan, China and central Asia.
Thunder and Sunshine, the second volume of his travelogue is out now, published by Eye Books.
Play on links below, other file formats (e.g. Ogg Vorbis) over here.
The Bike Show: Around the world the hard way (part two) [ 27:00 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download