Kitchen Surrealism

More here http://sighswhispers.blogspot.com/2011/05/what-pinafores-did-next.html

Interlude Eight

Bollops has given me a great idea...

Unplugged

This place, this afternoon, still closed. Even the clock has stopped.

Interlude Seven: Epilogue

Well, that's the end of our scheduled programming for this Bank Holiday weekend. We'll be back on air at 6.30am with 'The Dairy Farmer's Digest' but, to see us out, here's some music.  

Alien Nation

Whilst the two day Alien Nation: A Conference on British Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy at Northumbria University in Newcastle costs a shocking £150, I am assuming the coinciding film season at local cinema Star & Shadow wont be as dear.

"A celebration of the freaky, spooky and obscure side of UK television drama. Programmed by James Leggott (Lecturer in Film and TV, Northumbria University) from the darker corners of the BBC archives, with special guest introductions, this is a rare chance to catch some of the most haunting telefantasy ever transmitted.

Expect angelic encounters, sacrificial offerings, gothic nightmares, dinner parties from hell, a very frightened Jane Asher, BBC Radiophonic weirdness… and Michael Parkinson being possessed by an evil spirit."

17/07/2011 - 24/07/2011

Intermission 6

Woah! See what the posting of two railway-related posts in quick succession have led to:

BBC News - Deltic locomotive back in service

Powerful forces at work, eh?

KON-TIKI

One has to voyage on a prehistoric vessel in order to discover new zoological species in the twentieth century...

On Location: Railways

"Stay on this side of the fence.  You can still see all that you want to see, and you will live longer."

Betamax. Its as easy as 123

In the early 1980s my Dad finally decided to get a Video player, should he get a VHS machine or Betamax. We ended up like most people with VHS. Alas some friends of ours got Betamax. Perhaps they saw this promo. Its as easy as 123.

The Mulatta and Mr. Fly: a novel by Miguel Angel Asturias

Play with Purpose

What's a Computer?

From the Magpie Annual 1976

Waverley Shopping Centre a.k.a Tripod City

The very best 1980s shopping experience at between channels.
A few pictures of Waverley Shopping Centre in Edinburgh.

My Fare Lady

Edinburgh, the 1980s. 'Fine Fare - It's no bad'.

FO2: The Podcast That Came Back

Dear Found Objects Bloggers

We’d like to invite all contributors to take part in the second FO podcast. If you are interested in doing so, the process is quite straightforward. Simply choose an object that you’d like to talk about and, well, talk about it, first making sure that you record what you say using whatever apparatus you have available that does that sort of thing. Please don’t add music or sound effects, this will come later. Ambient noise is okay, but ambient music is not, as it makes it a pain to edit. When you have done this, please send the ensuing mp3 / wav / whatever to foundoobjects@gmail.com. Please don’t send little tapes or wax cylinders or CD’s or anything else.

Your featured object is entirely up to you, but please choose something you feel appropriate to the blog and then tell us why you have chosen it, what it is, what it means / represents, where you got it, how you feel about it, etc. Please don’t make your contribution any longer than five minutes or so and please take a breath once in a while, again for editing purposes. It doesn’t have to be three dimensional; it could be a piece of music or a film or TV clip, you just need to explain why you think it fits.

In terms of deadline, it would be great if all contributions could be received by the end of June. If you’re in, please let us know, and quickly, as the number of contributors will need to be limited to ten, so please don’t volunteer unless you’re absolutely sure you’ll be able to do something in the time.

We have interesting plans for your individual contributions, but reserve the right to scrap the whole thing if it turns out to be rubbish!

Look forward to hearing from you,

FOUND OBJECTS

Shndg 6 Tickets Now on Sale

If you live within 900 miles of Southsea/Portsmouth and are thinking of going to Shndg 6 then I am pleased to say at long last tickets for this event are now on sale. And can be got from here. The tickets are £5.00 and I have been told by Mr Stevens (the curator of all things Shndg) that this is now a ticket only event.

The full line up for this night of noise, electronics, DIY sonic reverberation and drones are DJ sets from Jim Jupp (Ghost Box), Si Heartfield and Ms Mono. Live sets from Keith Seatman to promote the release his new album. Mr Twister Valley himself Douglas E Powell, Thee Magic Horns, Rusty Sheriff, Jez North and many more.  For more info/details visit www.facebook.com/Shndg

Knick-Knack

My eye was caught by this ornament in a charity shop at the weekend.

Modern Morris

Impressive, this new spookier Morris dancing that people seem to be getting up to these days.



No one else seems to have touched on it before at FoundObjects, so I've put together a little playlist of favourites over on YouTube.

I'm getting quite excited that Morris might actually become "trendy". Especially when I hear things like The Pagan Drum Machines of Whittlesea.

Paper Straw Craft

More Mills and Boon fun, from 1972.  This has to be the Platonic ideal of this sort of thing.  The broad areas of intense orange and green, comb binding, geometric shapes, extraordinary jumpers, the typefaces, rectangles, a key, a king and an OWL!

A Book of Festivals

1970.  Note the publisher: Mills and Boon?!  This is an example of that phenomena where you spot something once and from then on seem to see it everywhere.  Since I found this book I've been digging up Mills & Boon books for children all over the place.  Well, two of them.

More Book of Festivals HERE

"Mind alive!"