Filed under: Radio | Tags: A Sight, Alopecia, Bald Spots, Baldness, Belfast, Belfast City Hall, Blast Dry, bleach, Blow Dry, Braids, Buns, China, Cornrows, Eyebrows, Face, Fake Hair, Follicles, Friends, Glamour Models, Hair, Hair Breakage, Hair Dye, Hair Extensions, Hair Glue, Hair Straighteners, Hair Thinning, Hair Weaves, Haircuts, Hairstyles, Highlights, Human Hair, Hygiene, India, Italy, Jordan, Keratin, Matted Hair, Medication, Money, Mousy Brown, Northern Ireland, Nutrition, Plaits, Shauna Mullan, Shaved Heads, Shedding, Showering, Smithfield Market, Stress, Synthetic Hair, Work
A Hairpiece at Shauna's Shop
We go to Chameleon Hair Extensions in Smithfield Market to hear from shop owner Shauna Mullan all about hair. She’s been dong hair extensions and weaves since she was a young teenager and business has blossomed for her in the past decade, as more women in Belfast want hair extensions and many have bad experiences with home jobs or inexperienced stylists, resulting in bald spots, lumpy hair, matted clumps and other disasters.
Shauna discusses how she got into the hair extension business, where the hair comes from, what the concerns and preferences of the customers are, and why hair is so important.
Filed under: Radio-Video | Tags: Belfast, Cafe Krem, Capitalism, Chapters Cafe, China, Coffee, Manchester, Northern Ireland, PFC, PFCafe, Queen's University Belfast, Student's Union, Students, University, Work
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: Addiction, Asia, Beauty, Big Bums, bleach, Braiding, Buses, Chameleon Hair, China, Clip-in, Cornrows, Dreams, Extensions, Eyebrows, Face, Fake Hair, Family, Gender, Girls, Glamour, Glamour Models, Globalization, Gods, Hair, Hair Dealers, Hair Extensions, Hair Loss, Hair Pieces, Hairbrushes, Hairdressers, Honor, India, Italy, Mane of Pride and Glory, Money, Nightmares, Offerings to the Gods, Poverty, Priorities, Prized Possessions, Rubbish, Sacrifices, Sad Stories, Shaved Heads, Skinheads, Smithfield Markets, Straighteners, Temples, Ulster Fry, Weaves, Wigs, Work, Youth
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: Art, Burn Out, Chicago, Cuba, Dance, Death, Drugs, Facial Hair, Farming, Flamenco, Guitar, Gypsy, Hippie, Mexico City, Music, Naval Doctor, New England, New Hampshire, Overdose, PhD, Plane Crash, Puritan, Puritanical Lemon, Sociology, Statistics, Stress, Travel, Work
Dan Parish
Dan Parish grew up in New England and was set on a successful path, but by the end of his 20s he had dropped out of his PhD program and found his way to Mexico City playing flamenco guitar. In this week’s episode, he tells of burning out and growing facial hair in the 1960s, of the attractions and dangers of flamenco life, and of figuring out how to be happy writing music and living the New Hampshire life as — he puts it — a ‘worker in the arms of nature rather than a struggler in the flow of man’s idea of work’.
Some Flamenco Tracks from Dan:
Filed under: Radio | Tags: Activism, Baltimore, Crashdance, Exchanges, FBI, Flashdance, Football, Hollywood, Larry Evans, Millhunk Herald, Pittsburgh, Plastic Turf, Public Broadcasting, Reform School, Rust Belt, Security Threat, Serbia, Socialism, Spiro Agnew, Steel, Tony Novosel, Ukraine, Unions, Work, Writing
Larry with the Mill Hunk Herald
In the 1980s, Larry Evans was named a national security threat, Hollywood script writers were intent on telling his life story, he was crossing the Iron Curtain, and he was overtaking the Pittsburgh public television airwaves. As the steel mills were closing down in that decade, Larry ran the Millhunk Herald, a local journal, and was active in the efforts to keep the industry alive. He tells his story — how he got politically active, what’s happened to him since those activist days, and what it’s like to be classed a threat to society.
The video clip below comes from a documentary Larry made about his Millhunk Herald days. Tony Novosel stars in the 1983 Pittsburgh-made ‘Crashdance’, as a steelworker who turns to exotic dancing amidst the collapse of the steel industry in the city.
