Picture: Korean editions of Atlas of Vanishing Places
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January 6, 2023 · 2:22 pmPicture: Here’s looking at you 2023
The best to everyone and hopefully being seeing some of you sometime over the next year – the paperback of Through the Looking Glasses is coming in April so watch out for that. These were some unused cover designs featuring Spizz of ‘Where’s Captain Kirk?’ fame.
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Picture: Seasons Greetings to you all, thanks to everyone who bought a book or came to an event this last year – one of great highs and extreme lows – here’s to 2023
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December 23, 2022 · 7:01 pmPicture: Myself and Ian Svenonius following the screening and Q&A of The Lost Record at the Horse Hospital
Polaroid courtesy of Ian Svenonius
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Books: The Writer’s Journey selected by the Smithsonian Magazine as one of the ‘Ten Best Books About Travel of 2022’
Online here:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/the-ten-best-books-about-travel-of-2022-180981261/
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Event: David Bowie:The Gift of Sound and Vision with Tony McGee and Leah Kardos, 10 January 2023, from 7pm, The Century Club, Shaftesbury Avenue
On the anniversary of David Bowie’s death, join photographer & film director Tony McGee, to hear about his life and times working with David, and author Dr. Leah Kardos, who wrote Blackstar Theory.
Mc Gee, whose photographer career spans over four decades, had unique access to the star thanks to a close professional relationship and friendship. After meeting Bowie at a cocktail party, Tony was drafted in to shoot the publicity for Bowie’s 1983 Let’s Dance tour. Several shoots followed and Mc Gee’s most famous images of Bowie now reside in the National Portrait Gallery’s permanent collection. The pair went on to have friendship of more than thirty years and we will hear about the shoots, about how the two worked together, the importance of music in the sessions and stories from their friendship down the years
Dr. Leah Kardos is a composer, musician and author. Her most recent book, Blackstar Theory takes a close look at Bowie’s ambitious last works: his surprise ‘comeback’ project The Next Day (2013), the off-Broadway musical Lazarus (2015) and the album that preceded the artist’s death in 2016 by two days, Blackstar. On the night, Leah will investigate how a man approaching his own death can create art that illuminates the immortal potential of all matter in the known universe.
The evening will be hosted by author and cultural commentator Travis Elborough.
More info and to book tickets here.
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Event: The Lost Record screening, 12 December, 7pm, The Horse Hospital + Q&A with Ian Svenonius
The Lost Record is a unique movie by Ian Svenonious (frontman of post-punk band The Make-Up) and Alexandra Cabral about a girl’s relationship to a record she finds, a valueless ‘lost record’ from the cut-out bin, which she brings to wider attention; first to her friends and then to mass culture.
The lost record she finds is obscure, unknown, and different than other records in that it talks to the listener. The girl and the record develop a very close relationship but tension arises; the Record urges her to turn her friends on to it, play it at parties, etc, while the girl would rather keep their thing intimate, to herself.
The Lost Record is a film about art, music, fetish, creation, popularity, fame, love, value, money, property, and records and as bright, sleek and stylish as the finest of porky’s prime cuts.
After the screening Ian will be in conversation with the author Travis Elborough and signing advance copies of his latest book, Against the Written Word: Toward a Universal Illiteracy – ‘an omega to the Gutenberg Bible’s alpha’.
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Event: Speaking at London Modern on Sat 10 December, Waltham Forest Town Hall, E17
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Watch: Exploring Jane Austen’s Worthing – English Coastal Walk with John Rogers
A walk around the English coastal town of Worthing in West Sussex with author Travis Elborough. Thanks to my supporters on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/JohnRogers
Our walk starts at Worthing Station and then heads down into the heart of the Town Centre. We are looking for sites associated with Jane Austen who stayed in Worthing in 1805 and used it as the setting for her unfinished novel Sanditon. This is based on one of the chapters in Travis Elborough’s latest book The Writer’s Journey (White Lion Publishing https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-…. The locations visited include: The Connaught Theatre, Stanford Cottage (where Jane Austen stayed in 1805), The Dome Cinema as featured in the 1987 film Wish You Were Here starring Emily Lloyd and Tom Bell, The Royal Arcade, Shelley House and Worthing Pier. Many thanks to Travis Elborough https://traviselborough.co.uk/ https://www.waterstones.com/author/tr… Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk1q…
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Books: The Writer’s Journey reviewed in the December Issue of National Geographic Traveller magazine
Order a copy of the book via Bookshop.org https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/traviselborough
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