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Episode 8: Sunday Morning Coming Down - September 2008
NB - The original upload of this podcast contained an incomplete MP3 file. This has now been fixed and the whole podcast is available to play or download. Apologies for the confusion that this will have caused.
Episode 8 of the Filmwasters.com podcast sees the gang holed up at Leon’s house after a night out in Canterbury (sorry Skype, we didn’t need you this time), but the proximity of the others still didn’t help Ed’s “mad intro skillz” which were as poor as always. Also worth mentioning at the start that the bald fool left his phone on during recording and that 3 or 4 times during the show it made its presence felt - sorry about that.
Onto the show itself: first off there’s a 6 minute long discussion about the Filmwasters.com site including a well-deserved plug for our very own, Susan Burnstine’s wonderful short film on Fine Art TV (go watch it immediately) and info about some forthcoming collaborations. After that we warm to the subject of Leon and his ‘home build’ camera project followed by him and Damion reviewing fine art photography magazines, Foam Magazine and AG . Ed brings things back to basics with a discussion about 3D (or stereo) photography and the success of his recent purchases from Loreo. Cameron Stephen’s 3D image mentioned in the podcast can be seen here. Also, because we were in the countryside cockerel can be heard crowing throughout.
Episode 8: Sunday Morning Coming Down - September 2008 [53:31m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download- Damion recommends Richard Avedon: Photographs 1946-2004
- Ed recommends the Arena portfolios book
- Leon recommends tge Martin Pye Wedding Photographer website
Episode 7: Dear Diary - July 2008
We’re back, and before the end of the summer too! Thrown together at the last minute after we’d missed a previous date, Gordon Stettinius, joins regulars Ed Wenn and Susan Burnstine in the virtual Filmwasters pub. Talk ranges from faux diary entries, found photos with a sting in the tail, how Gordon’s mum coped with his decapitation, whether Ed’s parents used to get high by smoking prawns, lots of hair talk, how Susan doesn’t like to talk about it…any of it…until it’s finished (but that she will soon start using a proper glass lens!). Somewhere in the mix there’s a whole host of photo talk too.
- Susan recommends the movies, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and What Remains.
- Gordon recommends the Mary Ellen Mark prom series.
- Ed recommends Ghosts In The Landscape by Craig J. Barber.
Ed got something slightly wrong during the podcast. The alleged portrait of Mayakovsky is not one of him wearing a workers’ Constructivist uniform designed by Rodchenko. The suit photo is one of Rodchenko himself, whereas the famous Mayakovsky portrait is a little less surreal.
No commentsEpisode 6: Tombola Lodge - April/May 2008
Last minute, locals-only podcast for April/May 2008. Jim Green and Leon Taylor both have genuinely exciting news concerning their photographic careers. Ed doesn’t have a photograhic career, but he has discovered the wonders of the Truprint postal dev ‘n’ print service. In addition to that there’s much discussion about what people really write in comments books at exhibition, other postal dev ‘n’ print services that we’ve known and loved, getting Tesco to do xpro without even knowing what they’re doing and about how putting heroin in the butter gets your tea party off to a rocking start.
- Leon recommends the Arena Photographers’ website.
- Jim recommends the Comfort Zones exhibition at Dimbola Lodge on the Isle of Wight.
- Ed recommends Truprint for 35mm C41 process and print in the UK.
Episode 5: The Badger’s Back & We’re All drunk - February 2008
Cutting it very fine again for inclusion as a February episode. Damn the calendar and the shortened month…it took me by surprise. Episode 5 sees us back to full strength with regulars Ed, Susan, Damion, Leon and Ailsa joined by longtime friend of the extended family, Mr Gordon Stettinius, a man who always has a refreshing perspective on things. This show is a little looser than the others mainly because there was a lot more drinking going on than usual and a lot more off-mic Internet chat causing a lot of distractions and giggles. The discussion topic for this month is, “Photographing People” and while we had a good go, we didn’t even really dent it. Damion was calling in from a hotel with a lower-than-normal bandwidth connection so he sounds like a Dalek a lot of the time.Never mind; some people find that sexy.
Episode 5: The Badger's Back & We're All drunk - February 2008 [69:28m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadSusan wanted me to publish this link to explain her crude comment about Alec Soth. She thought it best to clarify her comment for fear that his wife will hunt her down. The reference to his body of work called ‘Niagra’. Which was shot at Niagra Falls hotels. Susan’s next solo show at Wallspace in Seattle, WA runs from March 4 to April 5. Artist reception is Thursday March 6 and she will be there so go along and say hi.
Ed’s picks were:
- Motherland by Simon Roberts
- Agfa Ultra 100 colour film (discontinued)
Gordon’s picks were:
- Flesh & Blood by Anne Beattie and Andy Grundberg
- Portraits by Bill Burke
- The Short Story & Photography, collected short stories
- Polkamotion
Susan’s picks were:
- Shooting Blind
- Polly Chandler
- Mona Kuhn images and books.
Damion’s pick was:
No commentsEpisode 4: Three is the Magic Number - January 2008
Phew! We just made it online before January finally ran out of days, but we’re still averaging one show per month.
Renowned LA-based photographer, Aline Smithson, joined regulars Ed and Susan for the first podcast of 2008. Susan and Aline were fresh back from the excitement of Photo LA and Review LA, so there’s a lot of talk about that. The discussion topic for this episode was, “What’s The Most Difficult Thing We Face As Photographers”, so we kicked that around a bit too.
[N.B. Sorry that the sound quality is slightly worse than usual. Skype wasn’t on our side when we recorded the show]
- Aline’s pick is the new Photofile book, Man Ray (ISBN 0500410658).
- Her recommendation from Photo LA is Finnish photographer, Pentti Sammallahti. Link to the work here and here.
- Susan’s picks are Nine Francois and the 3 winners of the New Orleans Photo Alliance show, Toy Stories (photos below).
- Ed’s pick is Matt Stuart’s wonderful street photography
Winning entries in The New Orleans Photo Alliance show, Toy Stories:
- Best In Show: Matthew Yates, ‘Sold Mah Soul’.
More of Matt’s images @flickr - Honorable mention: Warren Harold, ‘Boy Behind Fence’.
- Honorable mention: Rosana Salonia, ‘Little Man’.
(Click on images for larger versions)
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