Postcard for Walt Disney’s Tomorrowland Autopia, 1955

Trekking in the January sleet into the far corners of darkest Bushwick has its rewards. Last Sunday, McGregor from Chocolate Bobka and I had the pleasure of doing an hour-long guest spot on Arthur Magazine’s new weekly emission on Brooklyn’s Newtown Radio, broadcast out of a unexpectedly cozy enclave on the fourth floor of an unmarked industrial warehouse. The subject du jour was Retro-Futuristic Utopias, so I arrived at the studio expecting to pull together a spiel on Walt Disney’s Tomorrowland Autopia, the Ecological Art movement of the late 1960s, and Douglas Trumble’s 1971 science-fiction classic Silent Running. Instead, we ended up spinning some warped 21st century psychedelia, eating cookies courtesy Arthur Radio co-host Harry Painter’s grandma, and dancing like the slow section of a slow school.

Along the way, fellow Arthur contributor Ivy Meadows (Camilla Padget-Coles) and I got to preview some excerpts from our ongoing “Field Notes” project, which combines photomontage and pseudo-anthropological research to describe “Three Excursions into the Future (2010), Riding on a Retro-Futurist synthesizer track.” McGregor came on board because the first installment of “Field Notes” is going to make its debut in the very exciting new biannual cultural publication The Report, which he very magnanimously refuses to call “his,” and which he describes as “an orphanage for ideas without a home.” Go figure. Copies of The Report, which come equipped with a Bobka-curated mixtape compilation and a DVD of previously unreleased concert footage by Ray Concepcion and C. Axel Poekel, will be printed to the order starting in early February. Read more about it here. Or better yet, listen to him speak live about it by clicking on the portal below:

“Arthur Radio, Transmission 2: The Retro-Future Episode”

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Featuring Ivy Meadows (Camilla Padget Coles), Harry Painter (Will Crowfood), Chocolate Bobka (Mcgregor), and Visitation Rites (Emilie Friedlander)

Tunes by Angus Maclise, Brightblack Morning Light, Clutchy Hopkins, Rev. Douglas Bell, Psychic Vibes, Soiled Mattress & The Springs, UT Bach Lan, Ultimate Spinach, Psychic Ills, Psychic TV, James Ferraro, Roedelius, Deutsche Wertarbeit, CFCF, Blondes, Love Like Deloreans, Matrix Metals, Pure Ecstacy, Africa Germany Germany Mexico Turkey Australia, and Steve Gunn.

Check out this lovely multi-media package Camilla Padget-Coles prepared for this episode using GreenerMags technology, originally published on Arthur Magazine.

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