Crashed Aspidistra

NEW WEBSITE – WWW.SEANGITTINS.CO.UK

Sean Gittins — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 17:51:30 +0000

From January 2012 all my updates, posts, videos and just general blogging will be done from the site www.seangittins.co.uk. In the meantime I’ll keep this site running for the next few months as it has a lost of different stuff on it that people may be interested in.

Interview with Mark Kermode for Resonance 104.4 FM and Red Pepper

Sean Gittins — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:29:00 +0000

I recently interviewed Mark Kermode for an upcoming edition of Red Pepper and used some of the recording for an interview broadcast on Resonance 104.4 FM. You can listen to it through the Soundcloud player below. *WARNING* Contains Skiffle music.

Some videos I made at the London Stock Exchange (OccupyLSX) on October 15th 2011

Sean Gittins — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:08:28 +0000

Including … When It All Kicked Off, When The Dogs Came Out and Around 11pm …

Latest post at the New Statesman – McKenzie Wark and Limehouse

Sean Gittins — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:56:46 +0000

Here’s a link to my latest post at the New Statesman:

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/cultural-capital/2011/09/wark-limehouse-derive

It features the interview with McKenzie Wark I’d previously posted and some thoughts about the experience.

Francis Bacon on the South Bank Show

Sean Gittins — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 00:18:35 +0000

Here are six videos comprising an excellent documentary of the artist Francis Bacon. It is an episode of the South Bank show and a work of art in itself with particular visual and audio techniques used splendidly to bring out the nature of Bacon’s work. It’s as fascinating for its depiction of the life of the artist, London and the nature of art as it is a moving portrayal of one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists: