Nick and Haircut 100

Thanks to Nick Heyward for our jingle and his next gig info
http://nickheyward.com/appearances/

Colour Forest Painting

by Taragh

An Optimist’s Tour of the Future

Mark Stevenson in conversation with Michael Brooks at the British Library

www.bl.uk/whatson/events

Mark’s book “An Optimist’s Tour of the Future”

anoptimiststourofthefuture.com

Overpowered – Video

Music

• Moths – Fiona Bevan
• Old Fashioned Morphine – Tom McKean & The Emperors
• Ivan Splits in Two – Pengilly’s
• Starlight – Chilly Gonzales
• The Plot – Who Made Who
• Roll With Me Cherry – Fiona Bevan
• Melodika – Chilly Gonzales

Free gigs

Hush at The Perseverance
Mailling list at theemperors.co.uk

Daylight Music at the Union Chapel
unionchapel.org.uk

Fiona Bevan

Chilly Gonzales had Piano Hands

Some humorous mixing and lovely piano hands from Gonzales in the video from the recent gig at Scala

Greyworld

I got to meet Andrew Shoben of Greyworld, whose work I very much admire

greyworld.org/
Videos: vimeo.com/greyworld/videos

Hands at the Wellcome Collection

The Articulate Hand – Andrew Dawson performance

Mark Stevenson, guest

Author of The Optimist’s Tour of the Future (Amazon UK / USA)
optimistontour.com
anoptimiststourofthefuture.com

Witness

Witness.org
Witness uses video to open the eyes of the world to human rights violations. Peter Gabriel and designer Harry Pearce both contribute their talents to this organisation.

Jon Snow – A changing media in a changing world

with new regular guest Mark Stevenson
author of The Optimist’s Tour of the Future (Amazon UK / USA)

Music

• Let It Die – Ozzy Osbourne
• Nowhere Warm – Kate Havnevik
• Goodbye Mr A – The Hoosiers
• Love Me or Leave Me – Alexander Stewart

Art, Craft & Shop

Nikki and Taragh are exhibiting with Collective Art in Marlow on 12th and 13th November

Full details and preview evening guest list at colart.tumblr.com

Mars 500 flight simulation

With a tour of the station

http://mars500main.appspot.com/#en

Robin Ince

Mark and I had dinner with entertainment by a very interesting and amusing Robin Ince

The People’s Supermarket

http://www.thepeoplessupermarket.org

TED talk – Sir Ken Robinson

Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.

with new regular guest Mark Stevenson
author of The Optimist’s Tour of the Future (Amazon UK / USA)

Music

• A&E – Goldfrapp
• The First Cut – Eurythmics
• Bones  – Esser

Who keeps thousands of dead things in jars?

No, it’s not Nikki. It’s..

The Hunterian Museum

Join Mark and I as we venture inside the incredible and mysterious Hunterian Museum in central London to see thousands of dead things. Meet Jane who tells us some extraordinary facts about the multitude of specimens in jars and its curious history.

Find out more and come drawing there on Saturday 9th October 2010, 12pm until 4pm, free of charge, families welcome.

www.rcseng.ac.uk/museums

Jane Hughes

Jane is head of learning at the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons in London

Portrait of George Gratton, in Marlow

George Gratton is buried in the All saints Church yard.  Listen to the show to hear George’s story. This picture was found and brought back out to the church about ten years ago and now hangs in the Vestry.

Mark ends the show in a wheelbarrow

Drawings made by Taragh in the Hunterian Museum

Photography is not permitted in the museum however drawing is encouraged.

Click a drawing to enlarge and find out more

Wednesday 1st September at 7pm (UK)
repeated on Sunday 5th September at 4pm (UK)

• Tip of My Tongue – Coco Electrik
• Coma Chameleon – Jamie Lidell
• Author Unknown  – Jason Falkner
• Monster’s Waltz – The Invisible
• Crazy In Love – Puppini Sisters and The Real Tuesday Weld

But Will It Make You Happy?

www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/business/08consume.html

London Aquarium

Click on the photos to see more Taragh’s photos

Cape Farewell

The cultural response to climate change www.capefarewell.com

Jenny McCabe’s Moth Lampshade

www.flickr.com

Mark Stevenson Author of Optimist’s Tour of the Future

Amazon UK: An Optimist’s Tour of the Future

Amazon US: An Optimist’s Tour of the Future: One Curious Man Sets Out to Answer “What’s Next?”

Plants have feelings too

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10598926

What if..

Wednesday 4th August at 7pm (UK)
repeated on Sunday 8th August at 4pm (UK)

• Fire and Ice – Coco Electrik
• Feet to the Sky – Lulu and the Lampshades
• Yadada’s Uncle – 6 day riot
• Couldn’t be Done – Tim Finn
• Breakfast in Berlin – Coco Electrik

The Station Sessions

www.stationsessions.com

Tamara Schlesinger of 6 Day Riot at St Pancras Station Sessions

Ping London

Table tennis across London this summer pinglondon.com

My nephews playing at Kings Place

Polly Morgan at Haunch of Venison

www.haunchofvenison.com

Battersea Arts Centre One on One Festival

www.bac.org.uk

Picasso exhibition in Kings Cross

www.gagosian.com

Cambodian Children’s Painting Project

www.letuscreatecambodia.org

The Farncombe Estate

Portrait painting and many other courses at the beautiful www.farncombeestate.co.uk

Keith Morton demonstrating how he starts a portrait painting

My final portrait

The Optimist on Tour - Mark Stevenson

www.optimistontour.com

Coco Electrik interview

More info and link to buy the new album at www.myspace.com/cocoelectrik

Coco Electrik – Fire & Ice from TÉAR on Vimeo.

Wednesday 7th July at 7pm (UK)
repeated on Sunday 11th July at 4pm (UK)

Playlist

• Let’s make Love and Listen to Death From Above – CSS
• She Said – Plan B
• Idiot – Superthriller
• Tomoko – Hafdís Huld

Thank you to Mark Stevenson and Nick Heyward for our jingles.

Karen Garratt has her knickers on show at Flowers East Gallery.

Artist/maker Karen tells how and why she started making things

See more of Karen’s work at her website web.mac.com/kgarratt

Karen has her knickers on show at What a Relief at Flowers East Gallery www.flowersgalleries.com

The Alternative Plan B – Steve Price

Steve is an artist, designer, creative and newspaper editor.

Steve’s blog: http://designweak.com/
Follow Steve on twitter: http://twitter.com/planbstudio
Steve’s company: http://www.plan-bstudio.com/
Steve’s collaborative newspaper: http://www.plan-bstudio.com/planb_project10.html

Electric Hotel

Great music by Superthriller.
Video clip at www.sadlerswells.com

Draw dead things

www.drawdeadthings.com

Polly Morgan

More work by Polly Morgan at www.flickr.com/photos/polly_morgan/

Jan Burch – DrawDeadThings.com contributor (below)

Caroline Johnson – La Rose Carmine – DrawDeadThings.com contributor (below)

Cole Opteran – DrawDeadThings.com contributor (below)

James Anthony – JBops59 – DrawDeadThings.com contributor (below)

Hafdís Huld

www.hafdishuld.com/

Tomoko – Hafdís Huld Video

Wicklow Street Party – London Festival of Architecture

The Station Sessions at St Pancras Station

Every Thursday 6pm to 7pm through July 2010

www.stationsessions.com

On our last radio show I talked about The Royal Standard, an artist-led gallery, studios and social workspace in Liverpool. I met them at the Tate Gallery, and won a prize (see video below).

Well, Mike Carney of The Royal Standard wrote to me saying he was interested in www.drawdeadthings.com, (our radio spot to encourage you to draw) and guess what… he’s put a post on his drawing blog about it.
www.drawing-paper.tumblr.com

We love good ideas, so finally here is the video about meeting the Royal Standard and winning a prize.

Wednesday 2nd June at 7pm (UK)
repeated on Sunday 6th June at 4pm (UK)

Playlist

• The Ills – Mayer Hawthorne
• Killing Me Softly – The Fugees

Again thank you to Mark Stevenson and Nick Heyward for our jingles.

Special guest and art therapist Cecilie Enos

Art therapist Cecilie talks about violence in our media and environment and the effect it might be having on our children.

Estimated numbers of incidents of domestic violence

Full report that Mark found http://www.dewar4research.org/DOCS/dvg-v3.pdf

Let’s Rock The Moor 2010

Nikki and I made it along for the second year of this fun charity event

Haircut 100 on stage at Cookham Moor, 22nd May 2010. More photos on Taragh’s Flickr

Drawing from the gig by Nikki

Drawing from the gig by Taragh

Taragh wins a piece of art from the Tate Modern

A tom-bola prize at The Royal Standard as part of No Soul for Sale at the Tate Modern
My idea at www.thisisafreemessage.blogspot.com

Mark Stevenson

More from Mark at www.optimistontour.com

Wednesday 5th May at 7pm (UK)
repeated on Sunday 9th May at 4pm (UK)

Playlist

• Are Friends Electric – Gary Numan and Little Boots
• Odessy – Caribou
• Walking on the Moon – The Police

Again thank you to Mark Stevenson and Nick Heyward for our jingles.

Digital artist Joel Gethin Lewis

www.joelgethinlewis.com

Gary Numan Gig

Nikki and I enjoyed this gig together. Adam ant appeared and murdered “Cars”.

Warning: This video has quite a few swear words.

Gary Numan laughing at Adam Ant

Woman are not allowed on military submarines

Photo by Mateus

http://www.divinecaroline.com/22354/94342-ladies–might–now-serve-submarines

Mark Stevenson meets the people changing our world

Mark has returned from his world trip and talks to us about some of the most fascinating people working to change the future of the world.

• Vice-president of Google, and father of the internet Vint Cerf (pictured above)
• Eric Drexler, father of nanotechnology
• John Seely Brown, on the future of society
• Mojave space port and space planes using runways
• Dick Rutan, aviator who piloted the Voyager aircraft around the world non-stop

More from Mark at www.optimistontour.com

Next month’s guest pops in briefly, Cecilie Enos

Art therapist Cecilie will be talking about violence in our media and environment and the effect it might be having on our children on next month’s show (June 2010).

Ask Cecilie a question

This may be romantic but it’s not a love letter

http://helloemptyroom.wordpress.com/2010/04/12/so-i-found-a-love-letter/