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Posting this week's review here, while the podcast is on hold for a bit. So, in case you missed it, here it is on PODCAST PLATFORMS TOO This week's text is a review of Run! BTS, the variety show webseries from SOUTH KOREAN BOY BAND, INTERNATIONAL STARS, WORLDWIDE SENSATIONS.... BTS!

The text version of this is on our website here

& here's a video of me reading on IGTV too.

Hope you enjoy it, and if this review makes you wana watch it too, I've left links to my top 3 episodes in the lil footer!

We're going to start posting reviews here in between the big podcasts we do, hope you enjoy! This week's review is Death Stranding, the 2019 video game by Hideo Kojima that has completely changed the way I feel about the people in my life, the year we're facing, and the medium of gaming as a whole. I have written a spoiler-free review in an effort to bring other people to the game because I hope it can help you in the same way it has helped me: I'm left more prepared to face the challenge of 2020, and more able to process and accept what has happened. It is cool, devastating, uplifting and strange, and this review is somewhere between a wake and a love letter, written with 95 hours on the clock. Thank you Kojima Productions for making this.

The text version of this is on our website here:

& there's a video of me reading on IGTV too.

Our last review of the year so I'll see yas in 2021!

Hello allies and frenemies, it is Gabrielle and Zarina - art critic / game critic baby gods. This time you don’t just have to put up with us telling stories and making each other laugh - this episode is actually USEFUL, thank GOD. It is the funding episode! And for it, we are joined by Anna Hart who is going to talk us through everything you need to know about (arts) funding (in the UK). When we were students paying 9 grand a year, CSM decided to allow us one teeny tiny lesson about art funding, and there were limited spaces in the class, ffs. Luckily, we both booked on. And thank god because it was led by visiting tutor and arts producer extraordinaire Anna Hart. She taught us so much in that one class and it’s always stuck out in our minds as being pretty foundational (Gab actually ended up working for Anna on AIR, who make art with people in places). We wanted to rope Anna into this podcast episode to do an explainer on funding because it’s tricky (like honestly what is it, how do I get some for myself, and where is the money coming from?). In this episode, Anna chats to us about the logistics of arts funding, the criticisms of it too, and offers some tips on writing a good application. Have a listen and hope it is useful!

> A transcription for this episode is available on our website 

> Find out more about Anna’s work with AIR

> Reach out to The Hour for artist coaching

> Here's the Successful Funding Application Library

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> And finally, the transcription for this episode is made possible due to sponsorship support from Creative Debuts

Hosts: Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad

Guest: Anna Hart

Jingle: toynoiz made this legendary tune for us back during the era of the 1st podcast years and years ago

Hello cowards and abominable entities, it is Gabrielle and Zarina - art critic / game critic baby gods. This episode of our podcast is, quite frankly, a continuation of last episode's mild chaos. We talk about reality TV: why we loved it, what we can't stand now we're in pandemic-lockdown, and what we'd do if we were mind-bogglingly rich. We chat about That Tweet about Kim Kardashian's birthday, and why being a millionaire is FUCKING DESGOSTENG, but also, for some unknown reason, Gab tells us a story about how her driving test was terminated for dangerous driving!? it's funny, that's all u need to know. A lot more of those same wheezy laughs, this time directly into microphone, Gab does a little wee from laughin that hard. I promise next episode we'll have some actual art content that is useful and serious, we've just got that end-of-year feeling; wana bunk off French lessons, or watch a film in class on the box telly, instead of doin work. Anyway, this is all still valuable highbrow art critic stuff, bc we have some INTERESTING thoughts about reality tv & rich people, and look back at Gab's review of 13 seasons of the Kardashians from 3 years ago. 

Subscribe/follow/woteva for future episodes including artist interviews, ramblings, advice and more. We are reader-supported by our Patreon gang, love you.

> A transcription of this episode is available on our website thewhitepube.com. 

Hosts: Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad

Jingle: toynoiz made this legendary tune for us back during the era of the 1st podcast years and years ago

Hello friends & enemies, it is Gabrielle and Zarina - art critic / game critic baby gods. This second episode of our much-lauded podcast is a lil lockdown special where we chat about the bits o' ~culture~ that've been getting us through the hellscape that is 2020. We chat about Gab's freaky psychic connection with the radio, (romantically speaking) why Zarina loves period dramas, and like... maybe some actual book recommendations are in there. But tbh it's mostly chaos? A lot of wheezy laughing away from the microphone, and tryna hold in an enormous honking snort laugh while Gab tells a story about how she nearly proposed on a bungee jump in the Millennium Dome. All Quality, Top-Notch, Intellectual, high-brow Art Critic stuff. ok, that's all - ENJOYYYYYY!

[a note: Gab had to record her half of this episode on zoom, so the audio is a bit crackly. apologies to all the sensitive ears out there, she's already bought a new SD card so this should be a one-off tech-fiasco]

Subscribe/follow/woteva for future episodes including artist interviews, ramblings, advice and more. We are reader-supported by our Patreon gang, love you. 

> A transcription of this episode is available on our website thewhitepube.com

Hosts: Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad

Jingle: toynoiz made this legendary tune for us back during the era of the 1st podcast years and years ago

Hello friends and cowards, it is Gabrielle and Zarina - art critic / game critic baby gods. We used to have a podcast once upon a time when we were in university together and it was easy enough to start recording the conversations we were already having, and on the occasion of our FIFTH birthday wtf we are bringing it back. We start this new era of lockdown podcasting with the full origin story of how we came to begin our little website and why, again wtf, five years later it is still our actual job. Covering uni, values, audiences, writing, travel and the move into games, we go through every little step of this journey in detail. Most of our freelance work over the past few years has involved doing a 1 hour version of this talk in different art schools and galleries, so reaaaally, we are shooting ourselves in the foot a bit by putting the ultra deluxe version online. Oh well. Subscribe for future episodes including artist interviews, ramblings, advice and more. We are reader-supported by our Patreon gang, love you. 

> A transcription of this episode is available on our website thewhitepube.com

Hosts: Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad

Jingle: toynoiz made this legendary tune for us back during the era of the 1st podcast years and years ago