Star of stage and screen, from The Dove and The Black Hole to Yankee Tavern Today on the show we have actor Joseph Bottoms, best known for starring in television mini-series back in the day like Holocaust, soaps like Days of Our Lives and Santa Barbara, and Disney’s sci-fi film The Black Hole. And he’s... The post Episode #075: Joseph Bottoms appeared first on FunkZone Podcast.

Magical realist landscape painter! Today on the show we have painter Phoebe Brunner, whose most recent series of landscapes are showing at Sullivan Goss through May 29, and if you haven’t checked out her magical realist work before, you really must get over there. Now I’m not the biggest fan of landscapes, but in the... The post Episode #074: Phoebe Brunner appeared first on FunkZone Podcast.

World music percussionist and visual artist! Today on the show we have painter, drummer, and musician CJ Loo, who hails from Malaysia, but has taken up residence in Santa Barbara and is bringing her Chinese brush art to galleries around town, starting with Bella Rosa Gallery, where we first met. She’s a tireless promoter of... The post Episode #073: Si Jie Loo appeared first on FunkZone Podcast.

Two artists together for the first time! Today on the show we have a live recording from last Friday’s opening at MichaelKate Interiors, where I interviewed R. Eddie Hall and Stuart Carey, two very different artists from Carpinteria who curator Jan Ziegler has put together in one show called “Ancient Modern.” This is a much... The post Episode #072: R. Eddie Hall and Stuart Carey Live at MichaelKate 04.22.16 appeared first on FunkZone Podcast.

Outdoors writer who likes to go Off the Map and Further Off the Map Today on the show we have backpacker, environmental educator, and author Bryan Snyder. Bryan recently put out a sequel to his first book of nature and hiking essays Off the Map called, you might have guessed, Further Off the Map, over... The post Episode #071: Bryan Snyder appeared first on FunkZone Podcast.

Podcasting brothers with a love/hate relationship to pop culture! Today on the show we have a two-fer! We have two guests, Scott and Adam Cherry, They’re twins, and up until recently, they had a very popular podcast/Youtube show called Barbarian Rage, which was a weekly look at the littler known pieces of pop culture from... The post Episode #70: Scott and Adam Cherry appeared first on FunkZone Podcast.

Lead singer of Nerf Herder and creator of Song of the Week! Today on the show we have musician and lead singer of Nerf Herder, Parry Gripp. You may know them from their first hit, Van Halen, from their first album in 1996, back in the day when MTV showed music videos. They’ve got their... The post Episode #069: Parry Gripp appeared first on FunkZone Podcast.

Rock Poster Artist, now back from Chicago to bring the art to the Funk Zone! Today on the show we have poster artist and screenprinter Alana Bailey. Back in February I went to a show at Studio 111 here in the Funk Zone and that’s when I first saw Alana’s work, over 90 rock posters,... The post Episode #068: Alana Bailey appeared first on FunkZone Podcast.

Archeologist who discovered the “forest gardens” of the Maya! Today on the show we have ethnographer and author Anabel Ford, who spends her time between UCSB and El Pilar, and archeological site on the Belize-Guatamala border. El Pilar is an ancient Maya city, and in 1983 Anabel was the first archeologist to map it. The... The post Episode #067: Anabel Ford appeared first on FunkZone Podcast.

Curator of UCSB’s Special Wax Cylinder and 78 rpm record collections! My guest for today’s show is not an artist, but he’s in charge of preserving and curating a bit chunk of the arts. We have David Seubert on the show today, and he is Curator of the performing arts collection at the UCSB library,... The post Episode #066: David Seubert appeared first on FunkZone Podcast.