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02/01/16 • 19 min
Sculpting a Dugong for casting in Bronze
Alick Topoti carving original Torres Strait designs
In this Episode 75 of Your Story we talk to Alick Tipoti about his preparation for a forthcoming exhibition in Monaco about his Torres Strait culture, it’s differences from the Australian Aboriginal and similarity to Melanesian cultures. We also discuss how he expresses his culture in paint, sculpture and dance.
Dugong by Alick Tipoti from Ian Kath on Vimeo.
Sculpting a Dugong
Recently while working at Urban Art Projects here in Brisbane, I had the opportunity to work with indigenous Torres Strait artist Alick in manufacturing a large dugong sculpture to be cast into bronze by theUAP foundry.
Finished cast bronze Dugong
The video below shows the detail workmanship Alick used to share his cultural motifs and the production of the final, exceptional beautiful bronze casting to be shown at the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco from March to September 2016, as part of a greater exhibition of Australian Indigenous Art.
Alick’s website is AlickTipoti.com
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01/23/12 • 6 min
Ep 72 : Stefan & Rocco. Metroccolis Redux – Passion, Success and Balancing Art with Business
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05/17/12 • 31 min
Passion, skill, determination and slowly move towards success!
Four years on from our discussion on Your Story with Rocco from Metroccolis we once again sit on the roof tops of Berlin just near Mauerpark in the old East Berlin. But this time Stefan as the other half of Metroccolis joins us for coffee and donuts and talk of life as successful mime artists.
Recording on the Roof Tops of Berlin
No longer the starving artists.
Stefan and Rocco are the mime artists that are Metroccolis. A unique mime troupe who are passionate about silent theatre. Now together for 15 years since their school day they are managing to pay a real wage to themselves after many years as the classic startving artists.
In this episode we dig deeper from the previous episode into how things have progressed in the last four years. Back then when they are just an extra and making small, they usually spent their earnings on dacreate casinos to play some rounds. Now Metroccolis is making the dream happen and can share how they managed to get to where they’re a real business.
The ideas Stefan and Roccos share are gold for all artists. How to move forward with their passion and how to have the best shot at achieving success. Just some of the things they talk of:
- Not taking success for granted
- Importance of a specific unique vision
- Persistance
- Balance of business and art
- Passion for what you love
Their website is Metroccolis.com
Email is [email protected]
Mauerpark from the rooftops of Berlin
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05/11/12 • 49 min
Creating, then helping others with their Indy Movie production!
Creative people never have an issue with the making. That’s their passion and what we talk about here on Your Story. Their issues are to fund and promote their creation. And that means getting attention!
Independent film maker Juliane Block shares these challenges but has additional skills to help her productions. All good information for indy film makers. She also has a cross cultural experience of film making in Asia and what that’s like.
We all need help.
There are many things all creative people need for success but much of the time these are the skills they’re lacking. For the independent film maker the challenge is to create but also to fund, market and distribute, leaving them with the task of doing it all. So they have to reach for help. With the development of the digital age the task of getting attention has only become more complicated requiring the skills of a new breed of producer in the PMD that we discussed in Episode 58 of Your Story.
Behind & in front of the camera.
In front of camera
Juliane has produced, directed and acted in several short and two feature films both in Germany and in Asia where she lived and worked. She’s is working on her next feature, while using her graphic/industrial design skills to help other film makers with the promotion and funding of their production.
Juliane explains the basics of how crowd-funding works, along with ideas for spin off sales of products using the example of the recent huge success of Iron Sky of what can be done by keeping the fans in the loop all the way through the production cycle. Depending on the production needs the film public aren’t just passive observers any longer but are now involved at all levels of the production.
If you need some help with your production you can contact Juliane at Indiekraut to see some of the different ways of getting an indy film supported.
Director – Lights, Camera, Action.
For more information on Kinks or maybe to organise a house party for the screening of it just contact Juliane via her website and watch the movie trailer for Kinks at Kinksthemovie.com
Her website is J-Blockbuster.com. Help with your production at Indiekraut.Her email is on the Contact Page.
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04/28/15 • 55 min
Music, Architecture and Music of the Old Country.
Moshlo (Morrice) Shaw
It was 1936 and like many others, Morrice Shaw’s father could see the writing on the wall for his young family in Poland. More importantly, being Jewish, he knew things weren’t good and would only get worse. The best thing was to pay whatever was necessary to get his wife and 9 month old son to a safe country, then do what he could to get the rest of the family out of Europe. We all know how that played out for Europe and fortunately for this family it turned out to be immigrating to Australia.
Sadly most of their greater family fell victims to the Nazi persecution while the young Morrice grew up in the safety of Melbourne, later to hear the stories from the few relatives who did survive the the Nazi death camps. Not something easily forgotten.
A migrant’s life is never easy.
Growing up as a Jewish immigrant in the strong, Irish Catholic Melbourne suburb of Elwood was tough for the young Morrice (later to be known as Moshlo). Constant bullying and bickering from the other boys still weighs on him as some of the more unfortunate memories of his childhood. This he could also see playing out into the ’50’s in his father’s factory where new immigrants and locals clashed over cultural differences. This was the way it was long before the open acceptance of the multicultural society brought on by the post war migration boom and the mix of cultures we now enjoy.
What if you had to build a house with no money?
Cottlesbridge House
Cottlesbridge House Interior
With the strong work ethic of his parents Moshlo did well at school while also preferring to play the violin to the rough and tumble of sports, leading eventually into university and architecture. Soon after graduation Moshlo whet onto garner international fame in his 20’s for The Cottlesbridge House featuring in L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui in 1963. Then after a sojourn travelling and working overseas, eventually onto designing the Wave House in Sydney’s Northern Beaches.
Returning to the musical past.
After many years practicing and lecturing in architecture Moshlo has now returned to his original first love of music and dancing, turning full circle to explore the ethnic roots of his family, remembered in the distant whispers of memory is the Doyen music of nursery rhymes from his mother.
We leave Moshlo just before his return to Poland for the first time since leaving as an infant.
If you’d like to hear a little more of the music that takes us out in this episode just go to his site at MoshloViolin.com.
Postscript: Sadly just a couple of weeks before I was able to return to podcasting after recording this conversation in June 2012, Moshlo passed away from a short illness.Classic Doina performed by Moshlo. Moshlo performing at Woodford Folk Festival with Marko Deferri.
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01/17/12 • -1 min
Letting life unfold as it will...
What will happen, will happen and we can do nothing about it because we don’t have any control despite the illusion that we do.
This, to my understanding is the way of life. We live an illusion that we make decisions about all manner of things but the reality is every decision we make is based on the sum total of experiences that we’ve had in our life. At the most fundamental level we are our genetics and our totality of experiences, nothing more. And those two criteria are all that we are and every decision is based on those things. We make our decisions based on this criteria but who are we, if not our genetics and our experiences which drive our decisions?
Todays Your Story Addendum episode is from the departure gate just prior to boarding my flight to Europe.
I’m off on a trip to Europe for 2.5 months. Initially I’ll be in Megève in the French Alps as a guest of my sister and her family then I’ll be heading north to spend a couple of months in Berlin.
Did I make the decision to go?
On My Way to Europe
Well, I may think and feel like I did but the reality is I simply reacted to the situations as they presented themselves with the final upshot being I’m now on my way as I write this somewhere over Indonesia. But more to the point this trip is about creating situations that could provoke opportunity.
In my everyday life I have a routine of situations and people who are a constant with little variation and without breaking away from the status quo I’ll continue to have the same opportunities.
It’s crunch time!
For five years now I’ve been working on Your Story and Create Your Life Story, to learn the skills and develop the sites to where they may be able viable as more than just hobbies. I’ve tried a few things to develop them but to date these things haven’t worked and it’s time to see if there may be some other opportunities that I haven’t considered.
Staying in my home environment will maintain a similar situation to what’s been the case for these last five years but travelling to Europe may, just may, create an environment that is different and present opportunities that I couldn’t find at home.
Everyone who’s had any level of success will be the first to credit the good fortune in their lives that has lead to them becoming who they are (actually that’s the same for all of us, good and bad), and that good fortune could turn up anywhere. It’s just that if you get around, meet more people and be in different situations there is a greater chance of that good fortune turning up.
It isn’t choosing anything!
For me this is just about putting myself out there where opportunity may arise and allowing things to unfold. When we think about it, that’s how life is for all of us.
I don’t know or can’t imagine what may come of this trip. Maybe something, maybe nothing but as I said when I started on this adventure of learning how to podcast I’d rather give a red hot go, than stay in the certainty of routine.
What may come.
I’ve a few ideas for content for Your Story. We may get to revisit some past stories to see how they’ve developed over the last few years and I’m sure we’ll discover a few new stories. I’m hoping to produce both video and audio content and I’ll be putting it out in all the usual channels.
Since my last trip social networks have continued to develop and with the power of my new iPhone 4S along with the video, photo, audio sharing networks there is an opportunity for me to put out a variety of content through multiple channels.
If you want to find all the major social channels that I use go to About.me/IanKath where you can link across to see all that I produce over the next many weeks.
If you have any ideas for people to meet of place to visit in Berlin please let me know using the contacts above.
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04/23/12 • 63 min
Imagine waking one morning to discover your sex has changed!
On the last episode of Your Story we heard from Sophie, about her time in Berlin from before “The Wall” came down in 1989 to today.
Sophie at Another Country Books
Today we hear Part 2, a completely different story to what we heard last time, about her amazing story of gender transition and how it all came about and evolved.
Just imagine that!
Imagine waking one day to discover something as fundamental as your gender, which seems to be locked in stone for life, suddenly changing.
Despite the momentum of a lifetime Sophie found herself in this situation and she takes us through how it came about and how she dealt with it along with the reality of what it means to move through transition. This is not the standard story of gender transition that we hear from time to time but a medical condition that has lead to a change but then, as Sophie mentions maybe it was a transition that was always going to happen when the situation was right and the medication was what tip the balance.
Another Country Bookstore
We talk about the reality of what it’s meant for Sophie, both emotionally, mentally and physically. The way it’s impacted her personal and professional relationships along with the continuity of running the business at Another Country Books in Berlin along with family and friends in her greater community. Sophie generously shares with us some incredibly personal aspects of the transgender journey and how living real can be the most import aspect of gender transition.
Website: AnotherCountry.de
Address: Riemannstr, 7, 10961 Berlin, (U7 Gneisenaustr)
Phone: 030/96401160
If you’re in or ever get to Berlin make sure you check out Sophie’s bookstore.
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04/20/15 • 23 min
Ian’s back from three years of Pod-Fading.
After three years away it’s wonderful for me to say...
“Welcome To Episode 30 of Your Story Addendum.“
Having been away for so long I think, as we get started again, it’s only fair to bring you up to speed with what happened to cause such a long hiatus for Your Story and what you can look forward to in the future.
As I mention in this episode there will be changes here and also at Create Your (Life) Story, which is in the early stages of rebranding and new content about how to get your stories out to who needs to hear them.
Ian with Tango friends.
This is just the first tentative steps in coming back to the world of podcasting. If you want to hear some of my stories from over the last few years you can listen to my audio feed at AudioBoo. Note: Sorry about having to log in but this is one of the examples of how AudioBoom is turning away from their community.
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02/21/12 • 23 min
Grabbing opportunities that can’t be found anywhere else.
When you’re young and exploring the world, there are chances for finding yourself wherever you are but the opportunities that present themselves will vary depending on location. Just take a moment to consider how different your life would have been and the opportunities that you took advantage of or missed simply due to where you spent your formative years.
Capturing the spirit of opportunity
In this episode of Your Story we chat to Henry Richards about the opportunities that are presented for him here in Berlin that weren’t available to him in Sydney where he grew up or London where he migrated from.
Henry is at that point in life right now, where he’s formulating the person he’ll become and it’s his current experiences in Berlin that will be part of that.
We chat about how he identifies himself, how Berlin culture allows people like him to be as they wish, to risk presenting in ways that other communities don’t allow and how he sees a future for himself here to continue to grow, study and become who he’ll one day be.
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03/02/12 • 32 min
Using a 350 year old model to create a 50% discounted Peer to Peer insurance scheme.
You hate insurance, I hate insurance, we all hate insurance but we all know, when things go down the toilet, it’s good to have the safety net to help us recover.
Like all of us, Sebastian Herfurth hated insurance also but after deciding he didn’t want to work in law, thought, there had to be a better way for insurance, using the power of modern social networks. This is simply reinventing the forgotten system from the history of insurance of 350 years ago, when friends and colleagues would group together to spread the risk of damages.
Sebastian Herfurth
The reason we don’t like insurance is we’re dealing with a gargantuan, faceless company and we never see benefits unless something goes wrong.
If we’re a good risk we see little benefit.
Sebastian and the team at Friensurance are taking that model of insurance and turning it on its head. If we do the right thing, not to abuse the scheme and make no claims, we’re rewarded with up to a 50% refund of our insurance premium.
This scheme is all about using the opinions and good will of our social network to encourage risk minimisation and avoid people who may defraud the scheme.
It’s simple really...
- Buy insurance through Friendsurande from a large traditional provider.
- Group a good risk, social network to share the policies.
- Claim when needed but not abuse.
- If no claims are made, receive a refund of 50% at year’s end.
And Sebastian doesn’t have to be work as a lawyer.
The company website is Friendsurance.de
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How many episodes does Your Story have?
Your Story currently has 15 episodes available.
What topics does Your Story cover?
The podcast is about Stories, Health & Fitness, Interesting, Society & Culture, Dreams, Story, Alternative Health, Conversations, Wisdom, Podcasts, Inspiration, Relationships, Journey, Advice, Travel and Interviews.
What is the most popular episode on Your Story?
The episode title 'Ep 75 : Alick. Art from the Torres Straits to the World.' is the most popular.
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The average episode length on Your Story is 28 minutes.
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Episodes of Your Story are typically released every 9 days, 14 hours.
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The first episode of Your Story was released on Jan 17, 2012.
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