THE IDLE HANDS SOCIETY

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  • 043: Not So Far Is Closer Than You Think

    Reach out to us @idlehandssociety. Your hosts today are @dan_s_higginson and @paulbenceuk on Instagram. You can support the Podcast by contributing to The Idle Hands Tip Jar. Support us and get Idle Hands Society merchandise

    Shoutouts:

    Paul picked Infidel by Tim Hetherington

    Dan’s choice is Shame, Food For Worms

    Mentions:

    Dan Higginson’s Website

    @photobookjunkies

    The Copeland Gallery | UAL exhibition 19th March 2023 @ 4-8pm | 133 Copeland Road, Peckham, SE15 3SN

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    1 hr 5 min
  • 042: David O’Mara

    Reach out to us @idlehandssociety. Your hosts today are @dan_s_higginson, @paulbenceuk, and @detrituszine on Instagram. You can support the Podcast by contributing to The Idle Hands Tip Jar. Support us and get Idle Hands Society merchandise

    Shoutouts:

    David O’mara’s three shout outs

    1. Corrosion #2 by Hiroko Komatsu, Man Cave

    2. Unreliable Narrator by Phil Hill

    3. I Just Want To Stay Home by Robbie Spotswood

    Paul picked Vortex by Kikuji Kawada

    Dan’s choice is American Mirror by Philip Montgomery

    Mentions:

    Tono Monotagari by Masatoshi Naito, Shunju-sha 1983

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    1 hr 19 min
  • 041: It’s F’in Xmas

    Check out this podcast on YouTube. Reach out to us @idlehandssociety. Your hosts today are @dan_s_higginson, @paulbenceuk, and @tcols on Instagram. You can support the Podcast by contributing to The Idle Hands Tip Jar.

    Shoutouts:

    Paul - Falsification by Seba Kurtis

    Dan - DIIV Live at the Murmrr Theatre

    Mentions:

    Jack Latham’s Parliament of Owls

    Daido Moriyama

    Daido Moriyama

    David O’Mara - Guardian article by Diane Smyth

    Ross from Friends

    Drawing of Haytham

    DIIV - Is The Is Are

    David Campany

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    57 min
  • 040: Mostly Chatting

    Check out this podcast on YouTube. Reach out to us @idlehandssociety. Your hosts today are @dan_s_higginson, @paulbenceuk, and @tcols on Instagram. You can support the Podcast by contributing to The Idle Hands Tip Jar.

    Shoutouts:

    Dan - The unbearable weight of massive talent - Tom Gormican, Kevin Etten

    Paul - Geoff Dyre - The Ongoing Moment

    Mentions:

    Alex Prior

    Paul Bence

    Tom Collins

    Magnum Photos

    Bieke Depoorter

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    46 min
  • 039: Tom Collins

    Check out this podcast on YouTube. Reach out to us @idlehandssociety. Your hosts today are @dan_s_higginson, @paulbenceuk, and @tcols on Instagram. You can support the Podcast by contributing to The Idle Hands Tip Jar.

    Shoutouts:

    Tom Collins’ shout out is the incredible movie Everything Everywhere All at Once

    Paul picked Nick Mulvey’s album, New Mythology

    Dan’s choice is Heart Tax by Jenny Lee

    Mentions:

    Tom Collins Website

    Hatchie

    Alex Cameron

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    1 hr 17 min
  • 038: Al Brydon

    Check out this podcast on YouTube. Reach out to us @idlehandssociety. Your hosts today are @dan_s_higginson and @paulbenceuk on Instagram. You can support the Podcast by contributing to The Idle Hands Tip Jar.

    Shoutouts:

    Paul’s shout out this week is a song by Gwenno - An Stevel Nowydh

    Dan picked a mixtape by the fantastic Joy Orbison - Still Slipping. Vol 1

    Al’s choice is a book by Joanne Coats - Daughters Of The Soil

    Mentions:

    Dan Wood

    A Photographic Life Podcast (What Does Photography Mean to You? Episode feat. Al Brydon)

    Inside The Outside Collective

    Joseph Wright

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    1 hr 12 min
  • 037: Becoming A Student

    Check out this podcast on YouTube. Reach out to us @idlehandssociety. Your hosts today are @dan_s_higginson and @paulbenceuk on Instagram. You can support the Podcast by contributing to The Idle Hands Tip Jar.

    Shoutouts:

    Paul’s shout out is ‘I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating’ by the amazing Alec Soth

    Dan’s pick is Dmytro Kozatsky, Azov Regiment fighter and photographer who documented the siege of the Azovstal metalworks.

    Mentions:

    Our YouTube channel

    Moment Photography

    The Messy Truth: Dr Jennifer Good - On Ethics (With Gem Fletcher)

    Sasha Wolf - PhotoWork: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice

    Aperture: The Photography Workshop Series:

    Todd Hido on Landscapes, Interiors, and the Nude

    Richard Misrach on Landscape and Meaning

    Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb on Street Photography and the Poetic Image

    Larry Fink on Composition and Improvisation

    David Campany

    Zen in the Art of Archery: Training the Mind and Body to Become One by Eugen Herrigel

    McDojoLife on Instagram

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    1 hr 1 min
  • 036: Why Do We Create?

    Reach out to us @idlehandssociety. Your hosts today are @dan_s_higginson and @paulbenceuk on Instagram. You can support the Podcast by contributing to The Idle Hands Tip Jar.

    Shoutouts:

    Dan’s Shout Out is Warpaint’s magical new album ‘Radiate Like This’

    Paul pick this episode is Devils Promenade by Antone Dolezal and Lara Shipley

    Mentions:

    Nikki Brown - Why Do We Create Art? Consider the Bengalese finch.

    Photo London

    Josh Edgoose (The Goose)

    Danny Jack

    I’ve been writing blogs about Documentary Wedding Photography

    Ralph Steadman

    Jaime Gili

    The Idle Hands Society YouTube channel

    Overlapse

    Lewis Quail

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    1 hr
  • 035: We’re back!

    Reach out to us @idlehandssociety. Your hosts today are @dan_s_higginson and @paulbenceuk on Instagram. You can support the Podcast by contributing to The Idle Hands Tip Jar.

    Shoutouts:

    Even The Birds Were Afraid To Fly by Al Brydon is Paul’s shout out

    Artist Alain Laboile is Dan’s pick

    Mentions:

    Peter Clarkson designing Paul’s forthcoming project, ‘Not So Far’.

    The Homeless World Cup

    Bruce Gilden

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    57 min
  • 034: Danny Jack

    Reach out to us @idlehandssociety. Your hosts today are @dan_s_higginson, @paulbenceuk and @danny_jack_photography on Instagram. You can support the Podcast by contributing to The Idle Hands Tip Jar.

    Shoutouts:

    Manchester Orchestra - The Silence from A Black Mile To The Surface is Paul’s shout out

    Khruangbin - Mordechai is Dan’s pick

    The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday is Danny’s choice this episode

    Mentions:

    Danny’s website

    Shot Takers Podcast

    Khruangbin - Texas Sun

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    1 hr 14 min

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Welcome to The Idle Hands Society, a community for creatives. Join us for regular chats with people across all disciplines, loosely focused on creativity.