Filed under: Radio | Tags: Architecture, Bathroom Etiquette, Bob Bingham, Brownfields, Carnegie Mellon University, Chamber Pots, Compost, Contextual Art, Dave Praeger, David Bear, Dusty Gedge, Eco-Art, Excrement, Friends of the Riverfront, Gardez-Leau, Gates Building, Global Green, Green Roofs, Habitat, Hamerschlag Hall, Hazelwood, Headlands, Hippies, Hundertwasser, Hygiene, India, Indira Nair, Japanese Bathrooms, Jerry Cohen, Joey Hays, Living Machine Tower, London, Mattress Factory, Michael Van Valkenburgh, Poop, Rain Runoff, Redstarts, Rose George, Rubble Green Roof, Sewage Systems, Sustainable Living, Three Rivers Wet Weather, Toilets, Tree Tenants, Urban Garden, Urine, Urine Diversion Toilet, USX Tower, Victorian Morality, Wetlands
Today, art with a bite of environmentalism.
Joey Hays
Joey Hays is an artist, an environmentalist, and an expert on all things bathroom. For his show this month at Carnegie Mellon, he’s building a massive compost toilet in the university art gallery. It’s his masters thesis project – tying together Pittsburgh’s massive sewage problem, artistic design, innovations in sustainability, and bathroom humor. Joey talks about the idea for his Gardez-Leau, the research he’s done on toilets, bathroom and sewage, and what he expects the gallery-goers will do.
Bob Bingham teaches art at CMU, and his classes of students work on environmentally-minded projects – including a Green Roof atop the university’s Hamerschlag Hall. Bob’s also worked on the city’s Nine Mile Run Project, in which a slag heap on the outskirts of Pittsburgh was transformed into a residential community, with sustainable living principles at its core. Today he talks about building green roofs, dealing with rejection of his proposals, and starting conversations about new ways of life.
For more on environmental toilets, see the latest from Rose George at the NYTimes.
And for Hamerschlag’s Green Roof, you can see it at CMU’s site.
Filed under: Radio | Tags: Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda, Alcoholism, Amateur Boxing, Ardoyne, Ballylongford, Belfast, Boston, Boxing, Catholics, Chiltenham, Class, Cystic Fibrosis, Drinking, Ireland, Larne, London, Marlon Brando, Martial arts, Michael Mason Saunderson, Northern Ireland, Protestants, RADA, Smoking, Tattooes, Travellers, Ultimate Fighting Championship
Michael
Michael Mason Saunderson started boxing at 11 with a tube in his stomach, thanks to his cystic fibrosis. He abandoned it around 17, when he was drinking heavily, getting tattoos and eating poorly. But now, at 21, he’s an amateur boxer in Belfast once again, living cleanly, and foraging careers in television and theater.
In today’s episode, Michael takes on an onslaught of questions. Does he expect to have a career in boxing? How is it to be from a Protestant background, fighting in a predominantly Catholic club? When he walks down the street, does he size up every passing man for whether he can take him? What’s his personality in the ring? And, if he’s so intent on never returning to a hospital, why does he fight?
Filed under: Radio | Tags: Belfast, Bombs, Cliftonville Road, Falls Road, Ireland, Jordanstown, London, Marks and Spencer, Nervys Young, North Belfast, Northern Ireland, Northern Irish Accent, PSNI, Queen's University Belfast, RUC, Sectarianism, Shankill Road, University of Ulster
Belfast past midnight
Thriteen years ago, Nervys Young came from a village outside of London to Northern Ireland. She intended to stay for a three year degree program and has not left since. Ned talks about how totally naive she was when she first moved here, whether she’s ever considered herself a local, how people react to her accent, and why she hasn’t run for the hills yet.
Filed under: Radio-Video | Tags: Acting, Adventures, Age, Ambition, Architecture, Artists, Australia, Being Fine, Belfast, Car Parks, Catoan, Change, Characters, Children's Books, Cities, Comedy, Comic Books, Comic Strips, Communication, Conservativism, Construction Work, Credit Cards, Damien Dempsey, Damien Rice, Digital Technology, Directors, Documentaries, Dr Seuss, Duke Special, East Belfast, Education, Ethnic Minorities, Failure, Family, Feature Films, Film, Filmmakers, Gigs, Graphic Novels, Guitar, I Wanted to Talk to You Last Night, Identity, Immigration, Indie Films, Intimacy, Ireland, Irish-Americans, Jared Longlands, Jobs, Joyful Subjects, Julia Atkinson, Jumping Fish, Land, London, Magic Rats, Michael MacBroom, Mischief, Models, Money, Music, New York, Northern Ireland, Northern Irish Accent, Nutsy The Office Squirrel, Office Work, Paddy McKeown, Parties, Paul McParland, People Who Sit in Rooms and Talk, Philosophy, Photography, Poland, Polish Architects, Presents, Property Development, Protestants, QFT, Record Contracts, Religion, Rent, Risk-taking, Screenplays, Selling Out, Serious Literature, Sinead O'Connor, Singer Songwriters, Skeleton Boss, Skill, Space, Squirrels, Subcultures, The Empire, Thespians, Titanic Quarter, Travel, Urban Alienation, Vulgarity, Work, Writing, Young People
Jared Longlands (for more: smartturkey@hotmail.com)
Julia Atkinson
Paddy McKeown (for more: http://www.myspace.com/patrickmckeown)
Michael MacBroom
Filed under: Radio-Video | Tags: Actions, Alice in Wonderland, Ambition, Annoying People, Anonymity, Apocalypse, Applied Amnesia of Difference, Architecture, Art, Artists, Arts Council Northern Ireland, Attitude Change, Bands, BeBeyond, Belfast, Belfast Blitz, Belfast Courthouse, Berlin, Bland Centralism, Boats, Bottle tops, Braids, Bread, Brooklyn, Buff Club, Businessmen, Caff/Flick, Call Centre, Cameraman, Cameras, Car Parks, Catalyst Arts, Cathedral Quarter, Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival, Catholics, City Centre, City Planning, Civil Service, Cliques, Clothing, Coffee, Collectives, Cologne, Compromise, Condescension, Conservativism, Conversation, Corporation, Counterweight, Craft, Cranes, Crap, Creative Unplanned Situations, Creativity, Crescent Arts Centre, Cutting-Edge, David Timlin, Dead Bumblebees, Death, Deformity, Diversity, Documentaries, Doll Corpses, Doll-making, Dolls, Editor, Elephants, Europa, Experiment, Festival of Fools, Filmmaking, Films, Freestyle, Germany, Hilton, Hollywood, Hotels, Housing Crisis, Indie Films, Insularity, Internet, Interventions, Irish Bread, Jonathan Lesbian Seagull, Keyboard, Knitting, Laganside Corporation, London, Making A Stand, Margaret Hagan, Mariachi, Masters Degrees, Mediocrity, Mishapen Eyes, Money, Monsters, Movies, Music, MySpace, Neil Brogan, Non-space, Normal People in a Complex Modern World, Northern Ireland, Obsession, Older Female Relatives, Ormeau Road Bakery, Outsiders, Performance Art, Play, Politics, Pretentiousness, Property Developers, Protestants, Public Art, Public Space, Puddles, Queen's University Belfast, Record Label, Recycling, Redevelopment, Religion, River Lagan, Royal Antedeluvian Order of the Buffalo, Sampler, Sand, Sandcastles, Scissors, Self-Sacrifice, Serious Points, Sewing, Sewing machines, Shopping, Sinead Breathnach-Cashell, Skyline, Soda Bread, Sound Man, Space, Starvation, Stuart Sloan, Success, Survival, Tea, The Best Kind of Music, The Kids, The News, The Past, The Troubles, Tourism, Umbrella, Up the Buff, Victoria Square, War, Wellingtons, Wheaten Bread, Work, Yarn, Zombies
Sinead Breathnach-Cashell … (for more: http://www.myspace.com/draw_in)
Neil Brogan … (for more: http://caff-flick.com)
Margaret Hagan … (for more: http://penelopebox.etsy.com)
David Timlin … (for more: http://www.creativematch.co.uk/portfolio/david_timlin/ or d_timlin@mac.com)
Stuart Sloan … (for more: http://www.youtube.com/user/sloanowski)
Filed under: Radio-Video | Tags: Accent, Age, Alcoholism, Art, Belfast, Belfast Wheel, Body, Body Image, Botanic Gardens, Chinese, Drinking, Drunkeness, East Belfast, Education, Family, Feminism, Foreigners, Gender, Generalizations, Hair, Image, Immigration, Independence, Language, Latin Culture, Life, Life Plan, Locals, London, Make-up, Mediterranean Culture, Mockery, Nationalism, Northern Ireland, Perfect Women, QUB, Queen's University Belfast, Relaxation, South Belfast, Spain, Stereotypes, Stress, Students, Superficiality, Teenagers, The Bot, The Eg, The Parlour, Turkmenistan, UK, Ultimate Frisbee, Weather, West Belfast, Women, Work, Working Class
Filed under: Radio | Tags: 30 Years Old, Analog, Art, AU, Barcelona, Belfast, Bright Kids, Brooklyn, Buff Club, Buffaloes, Caff/Flick, Careers, Cathedral Quarter, CDs, Champagne Diamond/The Brilliant Light, Collectives, Comfort Zone, Communists, Compilations, Creativity, Czech Republic, David Horvitz, Dublin, Feminists, Five Year Plan, Freestyle, French Death Metal, Grandiose Teenage Dreams, GZ Vinyl, Hand-eating, Hipsters, Internet Relationships, John Peel, LA, Lasers, London, Mediocrity, Menial labor, Money, Mount Eerie, Music, Music Copyright, Music Industry, MySpace, Neil Brogan, No Kids, Northern Ireland, NVTV, Office Jobs, Old Men, Oregon, Outsourcing, Photography, Picture Discs, Podcasts, Portland, Pseudonyms, Radio, Radio One, Records, Royal Antedeluvian Order of the Buffaloes, Rubbish, Shabbiness, Sweden, The Dirty Projectors, The High Places, Thrill Jockey, Up the Buff, US, Useless University Degrees, Vinyl
A Caff-Flick Release from Neil
Neil Brogan tells of his professional hobby, running the small record label Caff/Flick out of Belfast. The label (http://caff-flick.com/) is a niche one, releasing vinyl 12″ and 7” records & picture discs of bands from all over Europe + North America, including Mount Eerie, The High Places, No Kids, and Champagne Diamond/The Brilliant Light (from whom some songs feature on this episode).
Neil tells of how he got into the niche in London and expanded it from Belfast – constructing a snowballing virtual world of music, art & business – run via multiple online personas he’s cultivated. He also comments on the lifestyle that comes with running a small label: whether Belfast is (or could be) a decent place for his ambitions, bank account, and sensibilities; if he’ll ever cash himself in for a suit and an office job; and how hipsters can induce sensations of inadequacy and nausea.
Neil also performs (in a weird, self-effacing way, as he puts it). This Sunday the 17th he helps put on ‘Up The Buff’ at the Royal Antedeluvian Order of the Buffaloes club, in the Cathedral Quarter, on Writer’s Square, at. It is free in + goes from 7pm.
Above, a High Places Picture Disc in Action, courtesy of David Horvitz
