Podcasts about Fort Thunder

In this episode of the Compendium we explore the incredibly wholesome story of Michael Townsend, the artist who secretly lived in Mall for four years. After finding himself evicted from his home Michael and his team of Trummerkinds transformed an unused space in Providence Place Mall into a fully furnished home, complete with electricity and sofas and even a PlaySation all sourced from the mall itself. We give you just the Compendium, but if you want more, here are our resources: Secret Mall Apartment (2024) - by Jeremy Workman​​ Trummerkind - Micheal Townsend Blog Host & Show Info Hosts: Kyle Risi & Adam Cox About: Kyle and Adam are more than just your hosts, they're your close friends sharing intriguing stories from tales from the darker corners of true crime, the annals of your forgotten history books, and the who's who of incredible people. Intro Music: Alice in dark Wonderland by Aleksey Chistilin Community & Calls to Action ⭐ Review & follow on: Spotify & Apple Podcasts

I am joined by Arlen Walker of Live from Pellam's Wasteland (https://www.youtube.com/@LivefromPellamsWasteland) to talk about our recent forays into games set in Roman Times. We also talk about Call of Cthulhu and Cohors Cthulhu, rules sets used in a couple of games we played this week. https://www.chaosium.com/call-of-cthulhu-getting-started/https://modiphius.net/en-us/pages/cohors-cthulhuAlso a reading from the book of Aput the Skinner detailing the further escapades of my Hyperborea, " Down and Out in Fort Thunder" group and the Metal Minute featuring Metallica!Cover clip art by Amy Lee Rodriguez. You can send me a message (voice or text) via a DM on Discord, as an attachment to my email (gmologist@gmail.com) or to my Speakpipe account: https://www.speakpipe.com/TheGmologistPresentsOther samples from looperman Free Loops & Samples (https://www.looperman.com/), and StudioKolomna from Pixaby "Creepy"

Just me this time. I catch us all up on the games that I run currently and mention a few I play. Monday - Traveller, Coyote & CrowTuesday - Twilight:2000, Tales of the ValiantWednesday - Corsairs of Cthulhu, HyperboreaThursday - Pathfinder 2, Warhammer FantasyFriday - Cohors CthulhuSaturday - The One RingSunday - AD&D 1eAlso the Metal Minute where I talk about the album Hemispheres by RushAnd finally, another Tales from Fort Thunder, a reading about happenings in from our bi-weekly Hyperborea game. Cover clip art by Amy Lee Rodriguez. You can send me a message (voice or text) via a DM on Discord, as an attachment to my email (gmologist@gmail.com) or to my Speakpipe account: https://www.speakpipe.com/TheGmologistPresentsOther samples from looperman Free Loops & Samples (https://www.looperman.com/), and StudioKolomna from Pixaby "Creepy"

Call and write-ins from Joe of Dekahedron RPG Podcast (https://www.dekahedron.com/), Riley from Diegetic Advancement (https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/diegeticadvancement), and BJ Boyd of the Arcane Alienist (https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/arcanealienist). I am helped by Arlen of Live From Pellam's Wasteland with an answer (https://www.youtube.com/c/LivefromPellamsWasteland/playlists) Also the Metal Minute where I talk about the nu metal band Body Count. And finally, another Tales from Fort Thunder, a reading about happenings in from our bi-weekly Hyperborea game. Cover clip art by Amy Lee Rodriguez. You can send me a message (voice or text) via a DM on Discord, as an attachment to my email (gmologist@gmail.com) or to my Speakpipe account: https://www.speakpipe.com/TheGmologistPresents Other samples from looperman Free Loops & Samples (https://www.looperman.com/), and StudioKolomna from Pixaby "Creepy"

Bjorn Copeland is a mixed media artist, sculptor, and musician perhaps best known as a founding member of the long-lived and ever shapeshifting experimental rock group Black Dice. FULL EPISODE Soundtrack: Black Dice "Seabirds"  Black Dice "Re-Reading"  Wolf Eyes "Black Vomit"  Aaliyah "Are You that Somebody"  Masonna "Untitled" Burning Spear "The Ghost"  Black Dice "Chicken Shit"  OUTRO: Britney Spears "I'm a Slave 4 U" LINKS: Bjorn interview Black Dice Black Dice Interview

Welcome back to Batman Books Are Burning In Hell, where this episode Tucker and Matt are joined by special guest star and master cartoonist Anya Davidson! Anya's work sometimes seems to encompass the whole history of American comics, harnessing the raw current of energy tapped by everyone from George Herriman to Jack Kirby to Fort Thunder - but it's also a world of its very own, its artist dancing in perfect counterpoint to a music only she can hear. Books like School Spirits, Band For Life, and Lovers in the Garden are as notable for their expert markmaking and perfectly composed sequences as they are for their rare level of commitment to building characters and the big heart beating underneath their skin. They're also vvery vveird stuff, so we are absolutely gassed to present a conversation about one of the all-time best Bizarre Batman Comics: The Jungle Cat-Queen (1954), by the legendary Dick Sprang, with writer Edmond Hamilton and inker Charles Paris, as presented in Detective Comics #211. This is the stuff that dreams are made of - LISTEN UP

Jim Drain is a multi-disciplinary artist that makes other-worldly sculpture, furniture, and installation-based works. He is also one of the original founders of Fort Thunder--the influential live/work/performance space in Providence, Rhode Island during the 90's, and a member of Forcefield—the celebrated noise band and artist collective. Jim talks about the stories that can surround a work of art, the presence of family imbedded in his work, knitting as method for unification and the generosity of the craft community, hearing with his eyeballs, collaboration and the third mind, being a present parent and grumpy Dads, teaching undergraduate and high school students, and the irrationality and joys of being an artist. View Jim's work HERE.Support Deep Color™

B. Dolan and I dove into a lot of things during our interview... from how he got into rap music, to his creative and recording process, his activism work, the band he was in that he described as "hip hop + Fort Thunder", the start of Epic Beard Men with Sage Francis, and all the way up to what he's doing now to stay afloat and connected with his fans during this time that he can't tour.  Interlude song order:"Young Americans (feat. Sole)" by B. Dolan"Safety Theater" by B. Dolan"Jailbreak (feat. Aesop Rock, Buck 65, and Dave Lamb)" by B. Dolan"Five Hearts" by Epic Beard Men"Isolated score from the movie 'VAULT (2019)'" by B. Dolan"Pistol Dave (feat. Slug of Atmosphere)" by Epic Beard Men   Interview recorded May 29th, 2020 via ZoomIntro music by CedrosHosted by James Toomey  ***If you enjoy the episode please leave a rating or review wherever you're listening right now!***

Brian Chippendale is perhaps best known as the drummer and vocalist for the Providence duo, Lightning Bolt. A band perfectly suited to Chippendale's singular gift for conjuring colorful and frenetic noisescapes. He is also a prolific visual artist and graphic novelist. Brian tells Joe about: his childhood in New York state and Pennsylvania; his long-lasting aversion to becoming a grown up; attending art school at RISD; the genesis and evolving dynamic of Lightning Bolt; Fort Thunder--the legendary 6000 sq. ft. art loft in which he lived in the 90s; and how parenthood has changed his life, especially in the times of sheltering in place. During the age of social distancing, we're recording remotely and releasing new episodes every day.

William Schaff is a well-known artist that has created iconic images for bands such as Okkervil River, Magnolia Electric Co., and Godspeed You! Black Emperor. He's also worked with local Rhode Island bands Brown Bird, The Low Cards, and No Plateau ...to name a few. In addition to being a highly recognized visual artist he has also played in some amazing bands including The Eyesores and What Cheer? Brigade. In our interview we talk about how he started playing in these bands, his creative process, and how meeting Brian Chippendale and the guys from Fort Thunder helped lead him down this path. Song interlude order:"Beech, Birch, Mountain Pine" by The Iditarod "Benevolent St." by The Eyesores "Iahabibi" by What Cheer? Brigade "Sparrow" by The Iditarod  *This interview was recorded on October 2nd, 2019 at Fort Foreclosure in Warren, RIIntro music by CedrosHosted by James Toomey

As part of fabled collective Paper Rad, artist Jacob Ciocci co-produced animations, video collages, and HTML works that have had a profound influence on almost every artist working with technology today—whether they realize it or not. On this week’s episode, Jacob joins from his new home of Chicago to discuss fatherhood; his early days as a student at Oberlin College with Cory Arcangel and Paul B Davis; the genesis of Paper Rad with his sister, artist Jessica Ciocci, and Ben Jones; the aesthetic break between Paper Rad and postinternet art; his beguiling experience encountering Fort Thunder in Providence; the craft beer craze and artifical scarcity; being scared of watching brain-rotting cartoons; his longtime musical collaboration, Extreme Animals, with David Wightman; being so uncool that it becomes cool; a recent teaching gig in animation; and the devastating pain of archiving your work. The outro music is “SURFING/SUFFERING” by Extreme Animals. Additional Extreme Animals tracks play throughout the episode. Want to hear more Extreme Animals? Buy a digital download of their movie, "The Urgency," here: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/theurgency

Brian Chippendale is a visual artist, drummer and singer in Lightning Bolt and Black Pus, and a founding member of the seminal work-live-performance venue Fort Thunder. Brian talks about the similarities and distinctions between his different modes of making, mistakes as the living parts of his work, the fury of parenthood, selling artwork outside of the gallery system and enthusiasm as a way to generate new ideas. This is part 2 of a 2-part episode.

Brian Chippendale is a visual artist, drummer and singer in Lightning Bolt and Black Pus, and a founding member of the seminal work-live-performance venue Fort Thunder. Brian talks about creating immersive and expansive worlds in his work; handmade masks; playing drums; improvisation as an important tool, and capturing energy, multiplying it and blowing it back out. This is part 1 of a 2-part episode.

Leif Goldberg joined me to talk about his new book from 2dcloud, Lost In The Fun Zone. We also cover a range of work including his time in Fort Thunder, recent mini comics, yearly calendars and animation. Leif makes some … Continue reading →

Artist Andrew Kuo, AKA earlboykins on Instagram and Twitter, drops by Humor and the Abject this week for a very special bonus episode. We talked about Kuo’s early exposure to Fort Thunder as a student at RISD, how wild and elegant color is, My Chemical Romance making good on their promises as a band, the lineage of emo, the best time of day to paint, getting into self-publishing, the new Obama portrait, anxiety and jokes, literally biting your tongue, how Peter Halley has made the same painting for decades and why that’s the one of the most audacious radical painting moves out there, Kuo’s band HEX MESSAGE, why Bart Simpson is still on every single thing in the zine tent at the New York Art Book Fair, Jeremy Lin and bootleg merch beef, Kuo’s two-person exhibition “It Gets Beta” with Scott Reeder in 2015, avoiding knuckleheads so you can enjoy watching sports, being the last generation who for some reason is still afraid of selling out, his own roundball podcast Cookies, and embracing the simulation. We received generous sponsorship this week from getting dunked on by Patrick Chewing.

MY NAME IS CHIP AND I’M DIFFERENT Bit of a change of pace here dear listenoids. While Gary Lactus tutors Little Barry Lactus in the ways of cosmic righteousness, The Beast takes a solo sojourn into the 4-colour wastelands outside your window, till he finds himself knee deep in the comics slurry. There he encounters none other than Tom Oldham, of Breakdown Press and Gosh Comics. The two proceed to have a nice long chat about the origins of Breakdown Press, and their newest release, the long awaited Good News Bible: The Complete Deadline Strips of Shaky Kane. It’s a rambling, yet laser-focused conversation taking in Deadline, 2000AD, Brett Ewins, Nick Abadzis, Brendan McCarthy, Bulletproof Coffin, Connor Willumsen, Fort Thunder, Michel DeForge, Steve Cook, music and comics, Beserker Magazine, Jonathan Chandler, Antoine Cosse, the comics virus, David Quantick, Richard Short, David Hine, Crossed, Worthing and a whole heap more. It’s two hours of high qualidee chad, and you know you want it. WARNING: Contains no discussion of My Two Dads @silencepod @frasergeesin @thebeastmustdie @bobsymindless @kellykanayama silencepodcast@gmail.com You can support us using Patreon if you like.

Jim Rugg joins us to expound on Street Angel from AdHouse Books, Ed Piskor's Hip Hop Family Tree, Rob Liefeld, Brian Maruca, Gary Groth, Comics Comics (Frank Santoro, Dan Nadel, Tim Hodler, and more), PictureBox, Chris Pitzer, Supermag, Boulet, Mike Mignola and the Hellboy Goes to Hell Artist's Edition from IDW, Afrodisiac, Usamu Tezuka's Book of Human Insects from Vertical, Cable: Blood and Metal, Brian Lee O'Malley's Seconds, Jane, the Fox, and Me by Fanny Britt and Isabelle Arsenault from Groundwood Books, Josh Bayer, Jason Karns and FUKITOR, Organ fanzine, SDCC, Tom Scioli, Fort Thunder, Copacetic Comics, Paul Pope, Pittsburgh Comic Con, Robin Williams, Wally Wood, social media, artistic influences, CAB, Howtoons [Re]ignition by Fred Van Lente, Tom Fowler, and Jordie Bellaire from Image, Magnus: Robot Fighter from Fred Van Lente and Cory Smith from Dynamite!, the Annihilation Omnibus and Guardians of the Galaxy, Farel Dalrymple's The Wrenchies from :01 First Second, and a whole mess more!

Fort Thunder alum, Brian Chippendale joins me for lengthy talk about his comics (Maggots, Ninja, Galacticrap, Puke Force and the brand new If-n-Oof), music (Lightning Bolt and Black Pus) and art. Brian is in a dog park while we did … Continue reading →

In this heated episode, we talk Digested #1 by Bobby N and Gestalt Publishing, Walking Dead (this Sunday, 10 pm EST on AMC!), If 'n' Oof from Brian Chippendale and PictureBox, Fort Thunder and Providence, RI, the Jason Aaron Ghost Rider Omnibus, religion, Gary Frank, The Twelve, Tom Fowler and Deadpool Team-Up, Philip Tan, Hickman and Epting's Fantastic Four, S.H.I.E.L.D., Jim Lee and Batman, RIP M.D. from Fantagraphics and Mike Vosburg, I, Zombie, Vertigo, Brian Wood, Angst, Brahm Revel's Guerrillas, Steve Lieber and 4CHAN, and much more!