Powers 'Old but Gold' - Clareen Banjos from Leon Forristal on Vimeo.

Commercial work for Powers Whiskey featuring Tom Cussen at Clareen Banjos

Director: Lochlainn McKenna Producer: Gabi Chrobak Director of Photography: Leon Forristal Exec Producer: Liam Harkin Editor: Rory Bradley Colourist: Leandro Arouca Sound Mix: Alex James

Assistant Producer: Zoe Haran Focus Puller: Oisin Gallagher 2nd AC: Saoirse Johnston Gaffey Sound Op: Steven Moore Gaffer: Andrej Pacher Spark: Sean Smith Production Assistant: Hannah White

T Y P O: Journal of Lettrism, Surrealist Semantics & Constrained Design

TYPO 2 is now available

Contents include: alien alphabets, prismatic subdivisions, principles of double-talk, Post-Neoist portraits, desiring specimens, asemic architecture, Paul Éluard poetry, titular typography, Surrealist trivia, Italian eye candy, curlicues in review, generic sheet music, Jarry on the English language, historical filler text translations & much more

Journal Details:

Title: TYPO 2

Author: Various

Language: English

ISBN 979-8-9869224-5-4

Format: Paperback Journal

Pages: 152

Publisher: Black Scat Books

Contributors:

Pierre Albert-Birot; Guillaume Apollinaire; Mark Axelrod-Sokolov; Tom Barrett; Allan Bealy; Miggs Burroughs; Jahan Cader; Janina Ciezadlo; Norman Conquest; Farewell Debut; R J Dent; Karen Eliot; Paul Éluard; Paul Forristal; Ryan Forsythe; Jesse Glass; Rick Henry; Rhys Hughes; Rory Hughes; Alfred Jarry; Richard Koman; Márton Koppány; Amy Kurman; Peter F. Murphy; Pata-No UN LTD; Gaston de Pawlowski; Derek Pell; Harry Polkinhorn; Tom Prime; Jason E. Rolfe; Ded Rysel; Doug Skinner; Giovanni Antonio Tagliente; Félix Vallotton; Andrew C. Wenaus; Adolphe Willette; Carla Wilson; William Wordsworth.

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The War Master: Master of Callous (Big Finish)

Latest Review: Written By: James Goss, Guy Adams Directed By: Scott Handcock Cast Derek Jacobi (The Master), Silas Carson (The Ood), Maeve Bluebell Wells (Cassandra King), Samantha Béart (Martine King), Simon Ludders (Elliot King), Pippa Haywood (Teremon), David Menkin (Herschel), Barnaby Edwards (Jaques), Richard Earl (Sassanby), Kai Owen (Porrit), Joe Shire (Calia), Angela Bruce (Mother), Wilf Scolding (First Soldier) and Tom Forrister (Second Soldier). Other parts played by members of the cast. Producer Scott Handcock Script Editor Nicholas Briggs Executive Producers Jason Haigh-Ellery and Nicholas Briggs Derek Jacobi returns to the role of the Master for the second set of stories, this time it is four episodes that follow a single storyline, as opposed to the slightly more episodic nature of the first box set.  The story takes place on a colony planet called Callous, in which a small group of artists attempted and sort of failed to make a home. Their livelihood depends upon a mine, and the story revolves around this mine, its contents, the people who give everything to make the mine viable, the planetary governor who wants to take everything she can from the inhabitants, and the Master who has his own secret plans and machinations.  In short...it is an excellent story. I recommend this box set, there will likely be SPOILERS ahead, so reader beware. The opening episode, Call for the Dead follows Elliot King, the frustrated would-be leader of Callous, whose long attempts to make the mine worthwhile have yielded very few positive results, and the Governor bleeds him dry whenever she gets the chance.  He has spent so much time trying to make the mine earn just enough money to keep up with his payments that he has basically lost his family...his wife and daughter moved off-world, and while his wife is very ill, his daughter misses him daily. Meanwhile, he is being stalked by an odd with a ringing telephone, and when he finally answers the call, the Master is on the line.  Without getting too deep into it, Elliot decides to take his own life not long after his chat with the Master, and whatever plans the Master has are clearly set into motion.  Elliot's daughter Cassie and her wife Martine come to Callous to take over where her father left off.  Only Cassie is more adept with the mine than her father ever was.  He was an artist trying to make a living digging in a mine, as she went to school specifically to learn how to mine properly.  But when she too runs into trouble...another Ood phone call comes her way, only this time the Master offers his help. The set continues with The Glittering Prize, and this time the Master is posing as Mr. Orman, a kindly gentleman helping Cassie to get the mine working.  They strike a substance that could make them all rich...but if the Governor finds out they have it, she is sure to come and attempt to skim even more profits off their hard work.  The Master offers his help yet again, helping them plot to sneak the substance off the planet and hide it from the governor until they can safely make their money off of it.  But the substance has a psychic side effect, as it slowly can drive people mad or hallucinate, and it seems to drive the Ood workers completely out of sorts. The Persistence of Dreams focuses solely on Martine as she tries to keep her sanity guarding the substance.  She is accompanied only by an Ood bt finds herself hallucinating about her late mother, Cassie, Mr Orman and more...never knowing what is real and being driven to the brink of sanity by the awful substance. When the Ood seems to go mad as well and attempt to kill her, she launches herself into space, and hopes that hope can reach her in time...but of course, the Master has other plans. The set is closed out by Sins of the Father which sees the Governor arrive on Callous and demand the substance because someone tipped her off that they had found it.  She has captured and is torturing the Master daily for answers, but no mere Governor can really get anything out of the Master! Cassie has been cast out by most of the inhabitants of Callous, who blame her of much of their current woes, particularly the homicidal Governor who intends to kill them all for answers.  But the Governor didn't count on her prisoner actually being someone of influence.  She didn't count on his control of the Ood, or his ability to escape his chains...and the Master's plan finally comes into focus. He just needed the substance. Callous just happened to be his best route of getting the rare stuff, and he has beaten everyone before they even knew he was a threat. The story concludes with the Master meeting a Time Lord to sell off the substance so the Time Lords can build a new weapon against the Daleks.  It seemed almost odd to me that the Master would do all this for such a petty thing as money and helping the Time Lord cause. Just seemed off...but then a smaller item was thrown in for his payment. The Chameleon Arch.  It nicely tied in with the very item he was using when we first met this Doctor on TV (and actually used at the end of the previous box set, putting this one ahead of that timeline wise), and makes all his efforts in this story seem perfectly worth it for his character.  It may have been a mild hassle putting all those pieces into place, but he got what he truly wanted out of it. An eventual escape from the Time War. This is an excellent set, that somehow managed to top the first War Master set. And that was a tall order, as that first set was wonderful. I am already excited for more, as Big Finish have clearly been chomping at the bit for years to tell Time War tales, and they are reveling in it with every chance they get. Whether they focus on the War Doctor, the War Master, or just seeing the seeds of the war in the Eighth Doctor or Gallifrey sets. In all attempts, they have made some exciting stuff. http://reviews.doctorwhonews.net/2019/01/the_war_master_master_of_callous_big_finish.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=tumblr

Victim  

Drama on 3

by Sarah Wooley.

A drama about the making of 'Victim', the first British film to seriously address homosexuality. Part of Gay Britannia, a season across the BBC marking the 50th anniversary of The Sexual Offences Act 1967.

The 1961 film, starring matinee idol Dirk Bogarde in the gamble of his career, is often credited with helping to change public attitudes to homosexuality. This fast-moving drama follows the extraordinary mixture of bravery and pragmatism involved in getting this groundbreaking enterprise off the ground, providing a fascinating glimpse of Britain at a tipping point of social change.

Clip from Peeping Tom (c) Michael Powell (Theatre)/Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors/Michael Powell

THE WRITER Sarah Wooley has written many plays for the radio including FIFTEEN MINUTES about Andy Warhol, MOVING MUSIC about Philip Glass and Steve Reich, PLANNING PERMISSION about the Brutalist architect Erno Goldfinger and A NICE LITTLE HOLIDAY about playwright John Osborne. Her last play for Radio 4 was 1977, about the scoring of the film 'Watership Down' and the story of trans composer Angela Morley.

Credits

Writer - Sarah Wooley

Dirk Bogarde - Ed Stoppard

Tony Forwood - Simon Harrison

Basil Dearden - Jonathan Aris

Janet Green - Fenella Woolgar

Michael Relph - Ben Miles

John Trevelyan - Michael Maloney

Dorothy - Julie Teal

Sylvia Sims - Sarah Ridgeway

Alexander Walker - Charlie Clements

Leo Abse MP/Trailer Announcer - Simon Ludders

Sir Cyril Osborne MP/Earl of Arran/Roy Jenkins MP - Philip Fox

Actor - Emilio Doorgasingh

Actor - David Sturzaker

Actor - Tom Forrister

Director - Abigail le Fleming

P Money - The Calling from Matthew Walker on Vimeo.

P Money calls upon young creatives and rallies them into action with new Grime anthem 'The Calling'. Recorded and launched by talented young apprentices.

Prod/Agency - @mcsaatchilondon Creative Directors - Dom Moria & Kieron Roe Producer - Alex Kendall Production Manager - Leonie Marzecki Prod Assistant: Mark Pluck

Dop - Aaron reid 1st Ad: Johnathan sidwell 2nd: Jacqueline Moore Runner: Mac Holland Runner: Bradley Boorman Runner: Charlie Gibson Colourist Mark Slobodian Focus Puller: A Cam @shanedealmeida Focus Puller: B Cam @lightboxcatcher Clapper Loader: tom Reid Camera Trainee: tom Forrister Steadicam: Grant Sandy Phillips Gaffer: @glofilmlighting Electrician: charlie lodge Electrician: Joseph Nowell Electrician: Leon Pyszora Electrician: Orlando Desilva Desk Op: Chris Cooper Art Director: chloe brady Assistant Art Director: wyndam Prop Master: Chris Brett Art dept asst: Nick O’Mally Make Up Artist: Gina Dowle VFX - denova media

TDP 827: Torchwood - Gods Among Us Volume 1 from @BigFinish

@TinDogPodcast reviews 

  6.1. TORCHWOOD: GOD AMONG US PART 1

    6.1. TORCHWOOD: GOD AMONG US PART 1Torchwood: God Among Us Part 1RELEASED OCTOBER 2018 Synopsis

When a God comes to Cardiff, the world goes to Hell.

6.1 Future Pain by James Goss Torchwood pick up the pieces and move on. After all, there’s a whole new set of alien threats to deal with. While Yvonne Hartman is asserting her authority as the new leader of Torchwood, Jack Harkness is hunting an alien god in the sewers – but what’s he really hiding from?

6.2 The Man Who Destroyed Torchwood by Guy Adams Brent Hayden. To some he’s the darling of the alt-right, to others he’s a far-left crusader. A lot of people watch his videos, hang off his every word. Crisis actors? Conspiracies? Black Ops? Brent knows you deserve the truth. And Brent’s come to Cardiff, because he’s going to expose Torchwood. Don’t forget to Like and Subscribe.

6.3 See No Evil by John Dorney Cardiff goes blind. There’s a hunter out there in the darkness. With no escape, and the screaming getting louder, Jack Harkness and Yvonne Hartman each set out to save the city in their own ways.

6.4 Night Watch by Tim Foley The Black Sun has come through the Rift. When it visits, sleep comes with it. Orr is the guardian, appointed to watch over the city while it slumbers. What will they find as they wander the streets? Who are the lost souls, trapped with their demons? Who are the ones fighting even sleep? Who are the broken meeting their dreams?

Written By: James Goss, Guy Adams, John Dorney, Tim FoleyDirected By: Scott Handcock

CastJohn Barrowman (Captain Jack Harkness), Tracy-Ann Oberman (Yvonne Hartman), Paul Clayton (Mr Colchester), Alexandria Riley (Ng), Samantha Béart (Orr), Jonny Green (Tyler Steele), Tom Price (Sergeant Andy Davidson), Rachel Atkins (Ro-Jedda), Ramon Tikaram (Colin Colchester-Price), Jacqueline King (Mourner), Tom Forrister (Brent), Dominic Thorburn (Chip), Adam Turns (Old Man), Connor Calland (David), Jonnie Smith (Tim), Justin Davies (Scott), Karen Elli (Brent's Mum), Laura Singleton (Celebrant), Melanie Stevens (Julia), Ri Richards (Shopper). Other parts played by members of the cast.

Torchwood contains adult material and may not be suitable for younger listeners

Producer James GossScript Editor Scott HandcockExecutive

Producers Jason Haigh-Ellery and Nicholas Briggs

A new Tin Dog Podcast

Regular Marriage, my Exemplary –

After Tom Forrister transitioned from female to man, his same-sex union became a federally recognized, ‘conventional’ union. The one continuous was the bond he shared with his spouse.

But on a cool June morning in 2006, Bella and recited our vows and then I stumbled in the park. We had just moved into Massachusetts, one of the few areas on the planet which allows same sex union, equivalent legal rights included (although still restricted and not comprehended by the national government). This was from female to male.

In a lesbian dating–and a new town to boot up–we had no friends and family . Since that time we have made many friends and our families have come about, but it felt against the world just like us. We believed in each other and that was what mattered.

It seems like another life. I stare in the photographs and do not recognize myself in them–I’m wearing a white dress, and my hair is long. Is once I was not wearing jeans and a baggy T-shirt the discomfort that was evident in most pictures, the awkwardness that reveals through.

I really do recognize something in these pictures: when I am checking into Bella’s eyes, just how I light up. It is the only moment I am smiling.

Bella and I made an arrangement: to rekindle our commitment to each other daily, before we got married.

That day each morning once we wake up we create the decision to remain married. One day at a time don’t seem insurmountable. At the day, the little things matter. Night or morning, she is the very best aspect of the day. These days add up, and it’s simple to see our relationship for the remainder of our everyday lives.

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We didn’t understand how crucial this daily commitment was before our union was put into the test.

According to our wedding day, it was all against the world. We jumped through hoops, scrounged and saved for operation money, crossed through tangles of red tape which looked similar to the laser maze out of Mission: Impossible. (Cue soundtrack, lower me down to retrieve the documentation which could be my move to freedom.)

Then there was the operation. After we had left the hospital, Bella was my nurseagain. (past, my mother also helped for a couple of days after operation, flying all of the way from the East Coast to San Francisco. I can safely say I now have my family’s service.)

We shot it one day at a time. Bella let me through all of it, some time when I could offer her little in return. The transition process was scary I felt selfish for needing to concentrate on my identity. Now that we’ve come out the other side, I’m striving to give my spouse.

Once I stuffed out heaps of paperwork and had gone through all of the steps, I finally became male. While still married to the same individual I moved from having restricted rights at a bunch to having all of the rights of a heterosexual couple. Though that’s nice too, it is not all about the tax breaks. When we go from condition, we don’t have to worry about visiting rights if care is needed by a few of us. We’re entitled to each other’s land should one of us pass away. Federal advantages that we weren’t afforded–employment insurance, household, consumer, and health care advantages, and others–are ours.

While we like these newfound rights we must have had all along, we’re fighting for marriage equality. It is difficult to ignore injustice’s smack once you have the difference. Individuals that are that in love have sufficient trialsthey shouldn’t have to fight with with their government simply to obtain the exact rights that couples automatically receive.

I realize just how far we’ve come in just a couple years as we approach our fifth wedding anniversary. I thought that transitioning would make distance between us, that things might change. Things have changed. Because I am able to share myself but we’ve grown closer. Because I have nothing to hide, no more secrets or inner turmoil I can love. After all we’ve been through together, finding comfort in each other, acquiring a sense of normalcy and routine would be a relief.

We’ll come back to the gazebo, hand in hand, for the very first time since our 20, this season. I’m ready. I have confronted the past, and consequences have healed. We’ll stand, man and lady now, two people very much in love. We’ll renew our vows to each other, the same arrangement we honor daily. In a couple of years, we’ll create this renewal of vows a public service. For the time being, this private ritual is sufficient.

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Trade rivals have limited armory as U.S. quits climate deal

By Nina Chestney | LONDON

LONDON Washington’s withdrawal from a global pact on climate change might give U.S exports a competitive advantage but supporters of the deal will struggle to respond with any carbon tariffs due to the complexity of keeping them within international trade rules.

President Donald Trump said on Thursday the United States would quit the Paris Agreement because it hurt the U.S. economy, although U.N. regulations mean any withdrawal would take four years.

Leaving might give U.S. exporters an edge over rivals in nations where industry has to pay to emit carbon dioxide through a carbon tax or emissions trading scheme, economists say.

But the Paris deal sets no penalties for withdrawal and says efforts to ensure compliance should be “non-adversarial and non-punitive”, leaving it up to governments or trade blocs to ensure any retaliation meets World Trade Organization (WTO) codes.

Some manufacturers are already fretting about the U.S. competitive edge. But European and other nations have shown no appetite for responding with a regime of carbon tariffs.

“Our view is that it’s a can of worms to avoid opening,” said Dirk Forrister, president and chief executive of the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA).

“It’s a topic some politicians will raise again but it would be very complex and disputes would end up at the WTO,” he said.

Germany’s VDA lobby group for the country’s powerful vehicle industry voiced concerns on Friday that its carmakers could lose out. Yet Europe’s top exporting nation has said it was not considering any sanctions.

U.S. neighbor Canada also dismissed the idea of slapping on carbon tariffs. “The Canadian team (at U.N. climate talks) never even envisaged such a thing, let alone discussed it with anyone,” said a Canadian source close to the matter.

EU Climate and Energy Commissioner Miguel Arias Canete told Reuters the 28-nation bloc was not considering any tariff action against the United States.

France, home of the 2015 Paris climate change accord, said its response was to redouble efforts to limit carbon emissions and pull other signatory countries along with it.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The European Union has in the past examined the possibility of imposing import tariffs on nations with lax polluting laws. A study in 2010 was prompted by France and Italy which worried their industries would lose out to cheap imports.

PRINCIPLE VS PRACTICE

The EU assessment proved such a regime would be complex to calculate, create an administrative burden and risk a trade war.

It showed levies could in principle comply with WTO rules, but that in practice it would be almost impossible to target individual imports without knowing and monitoring the amount of carbon emitted throughout the manufacturing process.

WTO rules would allow a WTO member to impose tariffs on another for failing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, said James Bacchus, a director at the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development and a former WTO official.

He added that this would be the case “if enacted solely as an environmental or health measure, and if applied in a way that does not constitute arbitrary or unjustifiable discrimination or a disguised restriction on international trade.”

Such action would have a stronger case if the WTO member targeted “has declined to participate in cooperative global climate action as a party to the Paris Agreement,” he said.

Britain, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Mexico and South Korea are among the 15 biggest exporters to the United States. Many of them have introduced or are planning to introduce carbon pricing mechanisms.

But, even if they felt their industry faced a competitive threat and chose to respond, it would not happen quickly.

“It would have to go through a legislation process so it wouldn’t happen as an immediate reaction. It would take a while to develop,” IETA’s Forrister said.

Washington’s own actions in the past show this. In 2009, the U.S. Clean Energy and Security Act contained provisions for the government to act against trade partners which failed to meet U.S. emissions standards and so gained a competitive advantage.

The step drew criticism from China, largely seen as the main target at the time. But the bill never made it to a Senate vote.

(Additional reporting by Alister Doyle in Oslo, Tom Miles in Geneva, Stine Jacobsen in Copenhagen, David Ljunggren in Ottawa and Valerie Volcovici in Washington; Editing by Edmund Blair)

TDP 823: The War Master VOL 2 The master of Callous from @BigFinish

@TinDogPodcast reviews The War Master VOL 2 The master of Callous from @BigFinish

  Synopsis

This title was released in December 2018. It will be exclusively available to buy from the BF website until February 28th 2019, and on general sale after this date.

A brand-new four-part adventure featuring the Master’s exploits in the Time War.

On the mining colony Callous, Elliot King struggles to meet the demands of its governor, Teremon. The odds are stacked against him, and his options are running low. The world that once promised dreams now offers only despair.

A wild Ood stalks the forests, carrying an antiquated phone. The caller promises much – he claims he can change the world – but he always speaks a devastating truth.

He is the Master and the Ood will obey him... but to what end?

1. Call for the Dead by James Goss

2. The Glittering Prize by James Goss

3. The Persistence of Dreams by Guy Adams

4. Sins of the Father by Guy Adams

Written By: James Goss, Guy Adams Directed By: Scott Handcock

Cast

Derek Jacobi (The Master), Silas Carson (The Ood), Maeve Bluebell Wells (Cassandra King), Samantha Béart (Martine King), Simon Ludders (Elliot King), Pippa Haywood (Teremon), David Menkin (Herschel), Barnaby Edwards (Jaques), Richard Earl (Sassanby), Kai Owen (Porrit), Joe Shire (Calia), Angela Bruce (Mother), Wilf Scolding (First Soldier) and Tom Forrister (Second Soldier). Other parts played by members of the cast.

Producer Scott Handcock Script Editor Nicholas Briggs Executive Producers Jason Haigh-Ellery and Nicholas Briggs

        A new Tin Dog Podcast