Electric Sheep podcast: alt.cowboy

Electric Sheep podcast: alt.cowboy

In a pair of Q and As / intros recorded at the Electric Sheep Film Club, in the Prince Charles Cinema in London, Alex Fitch talks to BFI programmer Emma Smart about gay themes in Westerns before and after a screening of Midnight Cowboy and to Ian Rakoff about the crossover between Western themed comics and movies before a screening of For a few Dollars more…

Unusual images of the western - from left to right, Gene Autry comic no. 4, Western Fighters vol.3 no.4, Midnight Cowboy poster, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, no.1

Unusual images of the western - from left to right, Gene Autry comic no. 4, Western Fighters vol.3 no.4, Midnight Cowboy poster, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, no.1

More for more information and a variety of formats you can stream / download, please visit the home of this podcast at www.archive.org

Links: Info about the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival on tour
Midnight Cowboy pages on wikipedia and the IMDb
Listen to Alex’s other interviews with Emma Smart

Info about Ian Rakoff‘s talk about ‘Magical realism and social realism’ in comics at the Victoria and Albert Museum on July 21st 2010
Listen to Alex’s first interview with Ian, about writing The Prisoner and his experiences in the world of film and second interview about comics at the Victoria and Albert Museum

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Panel Borders: Comica Argentina

Panel Borders: Comica Argentina

In the first of two shows looking at Latin American comics, and in advance of this weekend’s mini Comica Argentina festival, Alex Fitch talks to graphic novelist and animator Oscar Grillo about his work, from travelling the world to find employment in the 1960s and 70s, to creating an animation studio in the 80s and working on graphic novels as diverse as the children’s book The world is round to an adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest…

Panel from The world is round by Oscar Grillo and Graham Marks

Panel from The world is round by Oscar Grillo and Graham Marks

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: Oscar’s commercial and personal blogs
Animation studio – Klacto productions
Read The World is Round
Info about comic book artist John Watson

Recommended events:

Comica Argentina

A mini Comica festival for Summer: an exhibition of the cream of Argentine comic art accompanies a trio of events at King’s Place in Somers Town…

July 2nd: Paul Gravett gives an illustrated talk about the history of comic art in Argentina. 6.30 pm
July 3rd: The Mystery Of The First Animated Movies – Gabriele Zucchelli’s documentary film, made in 2006, explores the making of El Apóstol. 6.30 pm
July 4th: Paul Gravett talks to cartoonist Oscar Grillo and director / animator Gabriele Zucchelli. 6.00 pm

The exhibition is being held at Canning House, 2 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8PJ to June 25 and then at King’s Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9AG from July 1st-4th.

More info at www.comicafestival.com

Comics at The London Literature Festival

The London Literature Festival runs from July 1st – 18th at The South Bank Centre in London and features a multitude of talks, panels and presentations on the world of books. Comics are represented at the festival in a couple of events including:

Martin Rowson talks about adapting the ‘anti-novel: The Life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman into graphic novel format – Saturday 3 July 2010 – 4 pm

Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá talk about their careers so far as Brazilian comic creators who have found critical acclaim producing work for the US market – hosted by Jamie McKelvie – Monday 5 July 2010 – 7pm

More info at www.londonlitfest.com

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EL Redux: Bells, birds and brooks

An edit of Resonance FM’s field recording collage, Edible Landscapes. This edit begins with bells, continues via birds, bikes and farm noises to end with gently lapping brook sounds. It was cut from an episode first heard in May 2009 and was first transmitted on 30th May 2010.

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EL Redux: Arcadia (1/2)

An edit of an episode of Edible Landscapes, Resonance FM’s field recording collage. Originally broadcast on 27th June 2010, this edit is cut from Arcadia, an episode of Edible Landscapes, first transmitted on September 15th 2008.
Audio was recorded by Richard Thomas.

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El Redux: James T Remix

An edit of Edible Landscapes, Resonance FM’s field recording collage. This episode was first transmitted on 9th May 2010 and the edit, which was re-mixed by Resonance engineer James T, is based on an episode of Edible Landscapes first transmitted in May 2009.

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Hooting Yard: Shade Of Smart.

Bonkers Maisie in her cart, trundling past the madhouse wall. Has she read The Intellectual Part by author Rayner Heppenstall? Yes she has, a hundred times, it is the only book she owns. She can act it out in mimes while juggling several traffic cones. She trundles ‘long the rutted lane, heading for the distant sea. Sprites cavort within her brain, a brain no bigger than a bee. Dainty is her air and mien, though her cap is set askew. She is in love with Lothar Preen, the maestro. He is bonkers too.

This episode was recorded on the 25th February 2010. A complete transcript of this episode can be found on Frank Key’s Hooting Yard website. Accompanying Hooting Yard On The Air, the four publications We Were Puny, They Were Vapid, Gravitas, Punctilio, Rectitude & Pippy Bags, Unspeakable Desolation Pouring Down From The Stars and Befuddled By Cormorants are available for purchase.

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Deep Fried Planet: Episode One

Today Deep Fried Planet premieres on Resonance FM. Presented by long time environmental activists Ben Stewart and Joss Garman, this is the first in a weekly series of discussions about current environmental affairs.

Stewart and Garman discuss the BP oil spill – “America’s worst environmental disaster in history”. They talk to Joe Romm and Duncan Exley.

Romm is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for American Progress, Assistant Secretary of state for Energy in the Clinton Administration and once described by Time magazine as the web’s most influential climate blogger and Exley is Director of FairPensions, an organization that lobby to promote ethical pensions investment in the UK.

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Unimagining Corporate Greenwashing

James Marriott, of Platform, an organization that brings together artists & activists to create projects focused on social and ecological justice, in conversation with John Jordan, co-founder of the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, a network of socially engaged artists and activists whose work falls in between resistance and creativity, culture and politics, art and life.

They discuss what makes art such an effective catalyst for change, the history of art-activism, the ailing condition of art institutions, the architecture of corporate sponsorship of cultural institutions and how the Lab of ii recently exposed the Tate Modern’s complicity with BP’s project of maintaining a ’social license to operate’.

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Wavelength – 2008 May 23rd Metronome

Soundtracks from a CD attached to issue No 7 of “Metronome” magazine, published 2001 – this may cause offence. Metronome Number 7 Edited by Clementine Deliss; The Bastard, Magnetic Speech.

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Bermuda Triangle Test Transmission Broadcasts 5/11/2009

5/11/2009
Title: Indoor Pyrotechnics via the Dark Part of Halvard’s Mind
Participants: Melanie Clifford, Halvard Ja Kwez
Description: Exploratory terrain again visited via the testing of SSB filtered Short wave band noise, Dark Part of My Mind Loops rhythm and noise, digital glitch shuffle. 5th November fireworks. Rough and agitational scrapings, buzzings, cracklings and amplitude shifts thoroughly test audience mettle. High and low end swoopings . Scratch loopage. Horror Firework safety information recollection. Underworld beats, bangs, whistlers and buzzes mix with electrical feedback conversationals. Dark and intense.

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