MAKING RADIO

On Saturday last Tony Curran (myself) and Jonathon Valenzuela (16 Tacos) were a radio twitter partnership where my iDrawings of "Action-Jon" were retweeted to FBi's twittership of almost 3,000. Collaborations don't always work well but thanks to Jon's not-so-diva-like attitude to my portraits he was happy that only one of them made him look like a "guido". His special request was a unicorn.

Twitter Art Skills and a Radio Star

Since smart phones every Tom Dick and Harry has become a twit. Richard Glover tells SMH readers that twitter is a fad that will vanish in no time just like facebook and the gramophone. However Glover never got his facts straight because he can't predict the future. But I can.

This Saturday (25rd July, 2009) between 8 and 10pm I'll be in the FBi Studios drawing action portraits of Jon Valenzuela - AKA 16 Tacos and author of THE TILTED PAGE - while he plays a "leftfield" hip-hop show. I'll be sending paintings out every 20 minutes or so on the FBi twitter account. So if you aren't following them yet, get to it! If you're not in Sydney for the occasion then jump on to fbiradio.com and listen online for free.

Predicted scenes will be Jon on the computer, Jon taking a smoke break and Jon severely playing music.


Tony Curran

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IN WITH THE MATCHBOX PROJECT

16th JULY 2009

While we were at the opening of Acts of Disobedience featuring The Matchbox Project at the Australian Centre for Photography, Sonya Gee expected that soon the thousands of matchboxes she had provided for her show would disappear and that she would soon have to replace them.

PRESENT DAY

Sonya Gee of the Matchbox Project takes me to check out just how many matchboxes she needs to replace. Along the way Sonya drops off a matchbox and uncharacteristically allows me to document the process.

The idea is that you take a Matchbox from the vase (see the top photograph), place it somewhere for someone else to find (see bottom photograph), then email or SMS the location of the matchbox from the details provided at the ACP.

PULSE: A behind the scenes with WATCH THIS SPACE and INFORMAL DIALOGUE

COLLABORATION!!!!!!

PULSE is a new curatorial project under development between Watch This Space and Informal Dialogue.