Ep 25 John Zane Zappas & Lindsay Preston Zappas: The People 

Featuring Notes from The People with Michael Smoler reading from his  poetry collection, Pieces of Water, number 16 in the Parrot series from Insert Blanc Press
... and we close out the show with the song Art Fair from the band Writer.

John Zane Zappas is a sculptor living in Los Angeles who currently has an exhibition called N U S T A C H U S at Outside Gallery a General Project of Insert Blanc Press which runs until April 5th 2015. We’ll be talking with John about his work and his role as co-director of Hammock Gallery.

Also joining us is, Lindsay Preston Zappas an artist and writer living in Los Angeles. She’ll be discussing Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles the online and print quarterly that she founded and which launches in April of this year.

Ep 25 John Zane Zappas & Lindsay Preston Zappas: The People

The People with Mathew Timmons and Ben White is an arts and literature podcast produced by Insert Press in Los Angeles, California. The People features the voices and ideas of The People that make up the cultural landscape of Los Angeles, the west coast, and beyond on KCHUNG 1630AM every 3rd Sunday at 3pm … it's Like a Broken Record Magically Repaired.

Insert Blanc Press produces innovative art & literature in Los Angeles, CA. Founded in October 2005, Insert Blanc Press endeavors to create dynamic conversations among the artistic disciplines and to support emerging artists and writers in the interest of contemporary arts and letters.

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Guests Akina Cox and Hayley Barker talk to us about spirituality, dreams, religious backgrounds, cults, trauma, PTSD, the Symbolists, vintage self help, flashy shittiness, writing scarves, interior life, being old enough not to give a fuck, and much much more!

Akina Cox is an artist and writer who was raised in the unification church. Akina lives and works in Los Angeles and her show Apokalypsis runs from March 15 thru May 3rd at BozoMag in the Highland Park neighborhood here in LA.  

Hayley Barker is a painter originally from Oregon and she’s been in LA for 5 years. Hayley has a show coming up at Shrine in New York and she shows with BozoMag here in Los Angeles.

Our interstitial music as always is Ocfif by Lewis Keller.
And we go out with a new single from Pasadena metal outfit Hexicon released on January 24, 2020. Hexicon features friends of the show Andrew Cox and his brother Austin Cox. Follow them on instagram at Hexicon band or find them on bandcamp at hexiconmetal.bandcamp.com and the name of the song is ... Dragnarok

Ep 84 Akina Cox And Hayley Barker The People

Guests Joe Sola and Michael Webster join us for a pro-yammering yammer about their performance collaborative Shakey's, Perfomance Art, adult diapers, Pizza, Spoiler Alerts, Virtual Reality, Star Trek, contemporary cathedrals of software, Samuel Beckett, being manic and cheap and much much more ...

Joe Sola is an artist that lives and works in Los Angeles. His exhibition, I Drove to San Francisco and Back is currently up at Honor Fraser Gallery in Culver City, California. He is also in a show at Yuz Museum Shanghai called In Production: Art and the Studio System.

Michael Webster is an Artist and musician in Los Angeles. He’s also a composer, conductor, performer, and recording artist who has created film scores, albums, art songs, and operas among many other things.

Our interstitial music as always is Ocfif by Lewis Keller.
And we go out with an excerpt from a project Michael Webster talked about during the show. It's currently a work in progress called ... Untitled Star Trek Episode

Ep 83 Joe Sola And Michael Webster The People

Guests Alee Peoples and Cara Levine talk about Secret narratives, Ambient grief, how Fear is a Liar, Adrian Piper, Not arriving, Residencies, the Luxury of isolation, Art as time management, Finding the balance, how to Protect your eyes while you’re blinding yourself, Echo Park Film Center, Elephant Art Space and sooo much more!

Alee Peoples is an artist and filmmaker living in Los Angeles. She is inspired by pedestrian histories, pop song lyrics and is invested in the hand-made. Alee has a film screening on February 22nd for the New Works Salon at Echo Park Film Center here in LA

Cara Levine is an artist living in Los Angeles. She works in sculpture, video and socially engaged practices. She has work in the group show Message to Space in the inaugural opening  of SUPERCOLLIDER a new science inspired exhibition platform at the Beacon Building. 
… and also, she and Alee have a two person show coming up in April at elephant art space here in the Cypress Park neighborhood of Los Angeles 

Our interstitial music as always is Ocfif by Lewis Keller.
And we go out with the latest from friend of the show Nick Flessa - a single that came out last month under the name Dayton Swim Club (inspired by a cult early internet video of the same name). The project stems from Nick Flessa Band but is more collaborative, featuring Mario Luna on guitar, Jessica Perelman on Drums, Kirsten Bladh (of Leggy) on bass, and Dominique Matelson on backing vocals and keys. … and the name of the song is Rage All Night

Ep 82 Alee Peoples and Cara Levine The People

Our guests Alex Jablonski and Jason Tippet talk about Alex's film, Wildland, Jason's excellent film Only The Young from Oscilloscope Laboratories, and Jason's new book, Heading To Bill's For Cigarettes … as well as Atwater Village, Street Photography, American Decline, Casting in Documentary, The Deep Hang, Getting to the ecstatic truth and much much more ...

Alex Jablonski is a documentary filmmaker whose 2019 film Wildland recently won two Emmy’s for Outstanding Editing and Outstanding Cinematography. You can watch that just about everywhere you see movies.

Jason Tippet is a documentary filmmaker working in Los Angeles. You can see his award winning film Only The Young from 2012 on Amazon Prime. His book of photography, Heading to Bill’s for Cigarettes has just been released from Oscilloscope and it’s a limited run of 1000 copies, so you should get one right now.

At the end of the show we’re gonna hear the world premeire of a new song from Los Angeles band Rincs

Our interstitial music as always is Ocfif by Lewis Keller. 
And we go out with the world premiere of a new song  from Los Angeles band Rincs. You can find them on soundcloud as Rincs and on instagram as Riiincs. They are playing at the Moroccan Lounge here in Los Angeles on Thursday night December 19th, 2019. And the name of the song is … Grapefruit

Ep 81 Alex Jablonski and Jason Tippet The People

Our Guests Don Edler and Nina Sarnelle talk propaganda, desperately refreshing online news, advertising, being caged in the algorithm, capitalism, competition, Nike Missles/Shoes, North Korea, The Doomsday Clock, Nike X and My Dead Hand, Two Minutes to Midnight and so much more ...

propaganda, desperately refreshing online news, being caged in the algorithm, capitalism, competition, Nike Missles/Shoes, North Korea, The Doomsday Clock, Nike X and My Dead Hand, Two Minutes to Midnight

Don Edler is an artist and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. He founded Elevator Mondays in 2017, a social exhibition space, curatorial project and experimental publishing company. He recently had a show at Hunter Shaw Fine Art in LA, titled Two Minutes to Midnight 

Nina Sarnelle is an artist and musician living in Los Angeles. She is a founding member of two different collectives, the Institute for New Feeling and dadpranks. She is in a show opening on November 29th at Human Resources in Los Angeles called Ecology of the Edge and will be performing at the opening reception. Also if you’re in Denver Colorado you can check out a show called The Fulfillment Center at Black Cube thru December 7th.

Our interstitial music as always is Ocfif by Lewis Keller.
And we go out with a track from our guest Nina Sarnelle off her album from May 2018, Tell me about yr research, which can be found on bandcamp at NinaSarnelle.bandcamp.com, and the name of the song is … you can handle

Ep 25 John Zane Zappas & Lindsay Preston Zappas: The People

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