flommcast so far: conversation, sea legs, vortex

‘Talk about process
talk about community
talk about fear and not get­ting paid
and where ed­u­ca­tion is in all of this?

‘Talk about paintings
sculpture
noise and science

‘Peo­ple should peo­ple how they’re go­ing to people’
 

Three episodes in, and FLoMM­CAST is do­ing wat I hoped would hap­pen – the loose ‘art talk’ idea that Al­ley had when she first pre­sent­ed the con­cept to me. Con­ver­sa­tions about art – un­pol­ished, where the artists just riff and help us ex­pe­ri­ence what they do. 

All done in a naive FLOMM-like way – record­ed in a VOR­TEX, as it were. Apart­ment RE­VERB. And cor­rupt­ed dig­i­tal record­ings. And smart phone chimes. Big barks. And I won­der: Which guest will be the first to ac­tu­al­ly take up the of­fer to record in Alley’s bed­room closet?

This is the first FLOMM project that’s most­ly out of my hands, which re­sults in some­thing cool for me: I get to lis­ten as an au­di­ence mem­ber, di­vorced from the con­tent. I get to be sur­prised. And learn a bit mor about these faces I keep run­ning into. 

They all have great things to talk about.
 

EPISODE 2
was a re­veal­ing Sacra­men­to art com­mu­ni­ty round­table – and it wasn’t just painters. And they had a LOT to say. Here’s faces and links to go with the audio:

Sarah Marie Hawkins, whose oth­er art project is #face­less­nomore, and you can also find her work here

Claire Voigt­lander

Denise Che­li­ni

Tory Gau­rnier, did­n’t pro­vide us a link, but did of­fer to pro­mote a friend

Al­isa Ko­rea

Je­re­mi­ah Ja­cobs

Milk Sur­face

Ken­neth Pickerel

Big
 

EPISODE 3
had Milk guest host­ing in Alley’s chair – and he did a great in­ter­view with out­sider self-taught mul­ti­me­dia neo-ex­pres­sion­ist artist Kainan Beck­er.

They talked grunge, pati­na, ag­ing, the in­flu­ence of who­ev­er get come into con­tact with, the lim­i­ta­tions of tra­di­tion­al ed­u­ca­tion and the pas­sion that comes from learn­ing on your own, tak­ing apart the puz­zle. Find­ing so­lu­tions, or nev­er find­ing just the right thing.

Kainan Beck­er

 

Next week, Al­ley has some­thing else planned. And re­fus­es to tell me. And from what I un­der­stand we have two record­ed re­motes in Chica­go and Boston sit­ting on lap­tops somewhere. 

I think.

Stay tuned. We’re on iTunes, Google Play, and tunein so far. There’s no for­mu­la for how this is go­ing to go. And that’s what makes it FLOMM.
 
 

—steve mehal­lo

Flom­mist Steve Mehal­lo is a graph­ic de­sign­er, il­lus­tra­tor, font de­sign­er, ed­u­ca­tor, food­ie and gad­fly. He is the cre­ator and founder of FLOMM! Pic­tured up top: Al­ley and a bunch of peo­ple that may or may not have any­thing to do with FLoMMCAST.

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