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Hooting Yard: A Note On Gnomes.
Because of his drooling, the slack-jawed dribbler was a man of few words. It was said that he expressed himself more fully in the waltz than he could ever manage with words. When he spoke, he slurred and slurped and his eyes grew wild. The fey ladies shuddered or swooned, and who can blame them? It is also true that he had no conversation, of the kind suitable for tea dances and soirées. He had fixed views on two or three topics of limited interest, and these he expounded, so far as his drooling and slurring and slurping allowed, in a low monotone indistinguishable at times from the buzz of a distant swarm of hornets.
- Headline News
- A Lucky Find
- A Note On Gnomes
- The Steinerian Gnome: An Introduction
- Debilite Sociale
- Urban House Numbers
- Slack-Jawed Dribbler
- Mephitc Odours & Perverted Telelgraph Boys
This episode was recorded on the 2nd December 2010. A complete transcript of this episode can be found on Frank Key’s Hooting Yard website. Accompanying Hooting Yard On The Air, the five publications We Were Puny, They Were Vapid, Gravitas, Punctilio, Rectitude & Pippy Bags, Unspeakable Desolation Pouring Down From The Stars, Befuddled By Cormorants and Inpugned By A Peasant And Other Stories are available for purchase
Panel Borders: Level Up – the work of Gene Luen Yang
Panel Borders: Level Up – the work of Gene Luen Yang
Continuing our month of shows about the crossover between comics and video games, Alex Fitch talks to American cartoonist Gene Luen Yang about his recent comics about games – his graphic novel Level Up and web strip Legends of the Joystick, both illustrated in watercolours by Thien Pham. Alex and Gene also talk about the use of autobiography in his comics, the elegant simplicity of older video games, and the occurrences of magical realism in his work from American Born Chinese to his forthcoming graphic novels about the Boxer Rebellion.
Excerpts from Level Up and Legends of the Joystick by Gene Luen Yang and Thien Pham
For more info about this podcast and a variety of formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org
Links: Read Legends of the Joystick and an extract from Level Up at tor.com
Read an additional behind the scenes cartoon about Level Up by Yang at wired.com
Gene’s website: www.geneyang.com
Interview with Gene Luen Yang and Thien Pham at 8asians.com
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Pub Fiction presents…
The regular ‘Pub Fiction’ slot at the Lass O’Gowrie pub in Manchester presents Q and As with popular British comic book and fantasy writers:
Ramsey Campbell, July 18th, 6.30pm (£5 / ticket)
John Reppion, July 19th, 6.30pm (£2 / ticket)
Al Ewing, July 22nd, 6.30pm (£2 / ticket)
Bryan Talbot, July 23rd, 5pm (£5 / ticket)
Stephen Gallagher, July 23rd, 6.30pm (£5 / ticket)
Paul Magrs and George Mann, July 24th, 5pm (£2 / ticket)
Buy tickets at We Got Tickets or pay on the door.
Part of The Lass O’Gowrie‘s LassFest.
The Lass O’Gowrie
36 Charles Street
Manchester
M1 7DB
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Reality Check: Of ships and men
Reality Check: Of ships and men
In a pair of Q and As recorded at Sci-Fi London 10 (April 2011), Alex Fitch talks to the directors of two very different SF movies about the pilots of spaceships and their relationships with the craft and crew. Nydenion, directed by Jack Moik is a new German ‘Space Opera’ that borrows from the aesthetics of Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica to create a crowd pleasing saga of ships and men in interstellar battle; and Atlantis Down, directed by Max Bartoli is a Twilight Zone influenced SF / Horror film about the crew of a space shuttle who on encountering a mysterious orbital event, find themselves on a planet full of death traps and and uncanny encounters. Alex talks to Jack and Max about their two films and the different ways they have re-imagined classic Science Fiction tropes in the 21st Century.
Images from Nydenion and Atlantis Down
For more info about this podcast and a variety of other episodes you can download, please visit the home of this episode at www.sci-fi-london.com
Links: Official film websites – www.nydenion.com / www.atlantisdown.com
Info about SCI-FI-LONDON 10 screenings of Nydenion and Atlantis Down
NASA website about the actual Space Shuttle Atlantis
Reality Check: Of ships and men - Atlantis Down and Nydenion [ 52:11 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadPanel Borders: Interactive comics
Panel Borders: Interactive comics
Starting a month of shows about the cross-over between comic books and video games, Alex Fitch talks to web comics creator Daniel Merlin Goodbrey about the latest examples of his experiments in interactive ‘hyper-comics’: including Jack’s Abstraction available on Android devices, and the forthcoming A Duck, which allow comic strip readers to follow differing narrative paths in various directions on the virtual page. Alex and Daniel also talk about other recent examples of the intersection between games and comics including Batman: Arkham Asylum and inFAMOUS 2: THE FAME STRiPS which he designed the flash interface for.
Extract from the interactive comic Jacks Abstraction by Daniel Merlin Goodbrey
For more info about this podcast and a variety of formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org
Links: Download Jack’s Abstraction from the Android store
Daniel Merlin Goodbrey’s website: e-merl.com
Read inFAMOUS 2: THE FAME STRiPS online
Listen to previous interviews with Daniel Merlin Goodbrey
Six Pillars – Entee aka Sarmastian
Our interview with new producer Entee aka Sarmastian, who visited the studios in July 2011. Here we sample some of his tracks and detail the rap/singing/remix competition open until August for any budding musicians out there who want some air time on 104.4FM
Wavelength – Maurice Seddon and Ventimiglia vomit
Captain Maurice Seddon describes acquiring another deep-freeze which will take its place amongst the other deep-freezes in his garden providing storage space for food for himself and his numerous dogs. Some of the food is years past its sell-by date but this does not deter Maurice from consuming it. I relate an incident in a restaurant in Ventimiglia, Italy, when a diner at the next table vomited profusely on to the floor. The programme finishes with a track from Soni Sclavus, a new CD by Israel Quellet; les bouffisures, les croupissures – pour voix, percussions, orgue, sons divers (things that bloat, things that stagnate – for voice, percussion, organ and miscellaneous sound).
Sine Of The Times 26/06/2011 – Residents Special
The cutting edge of London’s underground dance music scene with Thomas Lee and Rita Maia. With Rita heading off for the next few shows we decided to put together a little showcase of what you can expect to hear from our two presenters if you happen to catch them out and about over the coming weeks. It’s going to be a good summer!
Here’s what we played:
Mo Kolours – Dead of Night
Holy Other – Touch
Beaumont – Tokyo
Jazzsteppa – Threapy For Blind Musicians
Neat & Submerse – Close (Falty Dl Remix)
Bias & Gurly – Roll
Brenmar – Want Me
BNJMN – One Sea
Synkro & Indigo – Reflections
Roots Manuva – Watch Me Dance
Neon Jung- Just Cant
Bass Cleff – Rollercosters Of The Heart
Kidnap Kid – IF
Cosmin Trg – Fizic
George Fitzgerald – Silhouette
Photek – Totem
Cessa – Danger
Floating Points – Sais (dub)
Chairman Kato – Scar Clearance
Africa Hitech – Out In The Streets (VIP)
Get in touch and send us your tracks:
Twitter: @sineradio
Blog: http://sineofthetimes.tumblr.com/
SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/sineofthetimesradio
Wavelength – Corrected Slogans
Two songs by Frederic Rzewski: Lullaby: God to a Hungry Child, poem by Langston Hughes originally published in 1925 and reprinted in Good Morning Revolution. Rzewski version written in 1974, with David Holloway, baritone; Karl Berger, vibraphone and Anthony Braxton, clarinet. Apolitical Intellectuals; David Holloway, baritone; Frederic Rzewski, piano. Both tracks from New American Music, New York Section Composers of the 1970’s. Then, Don’t Talk to Sociologists from Corrected Slogans by Art and Language and The Red Crayola (1976). Money Blues (Parts 2 and 3) by Archie Shepp from Things have got to change, featuring the voice of Joe Lee Wilson (1971). Finally, new world order, who decides? by Charles Hayward from Near and Far (1997).
Laydeez do podcasts: Bristol Cartoonists
Laydeez do podcasts: Bristol Cartoonists
In this month’s podcast we have a recording of two cartoonists from Bristol whose work is informed by their medical conditions. Andrew Godfrey talks about his strips The Clichéd Artist and The Selfish Gene which detail his life with Cystic Fibrosis and Katie Green talks about her forthcoming book Lighter than my shadow: A graphic Memoir about battling anorexia, to be published by Jonathan Cape.
(Introduced and recorded by Nicola Streeten, edited by Alex Fitch)
Self portraits by Andrew Godfrey - sketch at Laydeez do Comics - and Katie Green - cover of Lighter than my shadow
For more info about this podcast and a variety of formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org
Links: Andrew Godfrey’s blog http://itsallaboutthecomics.blogspot.com
Katie Green’s website www.katiegreen.co.uk
Panel Borders’ month of shows on Medical Comics
Read Mike Medaglia’s blog entry about Andrew and Katie’s appearance at Laydeez do Comics
Info about Laydeez do comics