Thesaurus Jones & the Canoe Burden

September 11, Mushroom Family & the delightful disappearance of Jean-Luc Godard

Hogan — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:06:14 +0000

The Overload Poetry Festival is happening in Melbourne! Video of a poem I performed is being screened at the Poetronica event at the Wheeler Centre this Saturday night at 7.30. Drop in, there’s plenty of great work in the video including words performed by Santo Cazzatti, Ezra Bix, Randall Stephens, Steve Smart and Autumn Royal. Event details here.
Where the hat is Jean-Luc Godard?
Close friend and pretty face, Sharnayla Page has released a lovely EP of songs with Lesstalk Records, under the moniker Mushroom Family. Listen to and/or buy Can I Please Have More, Please? here. Read what I wrote about it here. Read what I wrote about her here. Look at her modeling adorable dresses for Sanoii+Six here.
I’m excited to the point of internal tremors for this.
Lesstalk Record’s Artless Armchair 6 is nigh! You want to be there. Conor Oberst, Bonyo, Nick French and a dog with a pacemaker were there last year. The Brutal Poodles are returning to headline the event.
Dunno what to do with this dot point. Any suggestions? Maybe we should take a walk down Spine Road or just go here.
The final dot point in this blog post is Mushroom Family stuck to a paper bag:

Happy Father’s Day

Hogan — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:19:14 +0000

I love my dad.

This is a photo I took of him for the promo of Naked People Wearing Clothes.

BIRTHDAY HAIR: Webisode One

Hogan — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 08:18:39 +0000

Thanks for watching!

TITLE

Hogan — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:07:36 +0000

This Sunday (August 8th) is Open Day at the Wheeler Centre! Come along and explore the centre (it was the National Gallery and The Planetarium in a past life) and learn about the residencies there. I will be chatting on a panel with some other Australian writers about the process of collaboration and how performance poetry continues to change with the advent of more integrated technologies. There will be videos and other cool things. Check it out! Details here.
Vibewire has published my short story The End et al along with a couple of my Crappy Doodles. It’s about the time you grew old and died while watching porn. Vibewire has some interesting coverage of the election as well (as does Express Media’s Electioneering).
Exhibit A (see below) is the pretentiously titled, dumb/dumb/actuality/animation video I made named TITLE. “Fruit Fly vs. Pube” would’ve made more sense. Yes, that is one of my pubic hairs. I removed it with scissors. There was an audition process: I wanted something with a single bend in the middle but nothing too curly. I made the video last year when I was working on MasterChef and living at Dee Why (information which is of no significance to the video). My familarity with the Reality TV Contest Formula* did not influence the design of this audition process. TITLE appears as a bonus feature on the NPWC DVD.
Good friend and Less Talk Records (Godfather) entrepreneur, Matt Vaughn was interviewed by Unbelievably Bad ZineBlog.
Seeing as though he believes in it so strongly, Tony Abbott should take his campaign to Hell.
Exhibit B: the coolest thing since the invention of flavoured milk.
< This dot point was a thumb-tac in a past life.
I have a release date for the first installment of my short series of videos, BIRTHDAY HAIR. The videos will star Measgood. The release date looks a little bit like this: August 11.

Exhibit A:

Exhibit B:

* Contains nuts**.

**Nuts may contain crack cocaine and gourmet sandwiches.

Stuff etc.

Hogan — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 06:23:32 +0000

There is all kinds of self-promotion going on in this blog post so if that’s the kind of thing to make you sick or have capillaries burst in your eyes, don’t read on.

Voiceworks Live is happening on July 22 (Thursday next week!) at the Wheeler Centre. Myself, Holly Voight and Christopher O’Neill will be reading. I am looking forward to the live radio play reading of Danielle M. Binks’ short story ‘Is This A Miracle?’. Details for the event are here.

I have new writing published in the current issues of Voiceworks and Dotdotdash magazines. My poem Khao San Road, Bangkok appears in the “Birthmark” themed Voiceworks, while my short story The Kodak Colorburst 100 In April and poem Big Dumb Object appear in Dotdotdash.

Voiceworks and Dotdotdash magazines are available at Borders and all good bookstores and newsagencies. If not (demand your local stocks it!), you can purchase a copy online from here and here.

Also, you can now watch all four episodes of Naked People Wearing Clothes on this blog. Click the Video tab.

Has anyone read Kleinzeit by Russell Hoban? I found a copy of it at a used book den last week and I think it might be my new favourite book.

Naked People Wearing Clothes - Episode 4: Suddenly, Tesselation

Hogan — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:39:34 +0000

Naked People Wearing Clothes - Episode 4: Suddenly, Tesselation from Daniel Hogan on Vimeo.

This is ‘Episode 4: Suddenly, Tesselation’ the final short-short from my short film ‘Naked People Wearing Clothes’.

Enjoy.

Coming soon: my new series of short films titled ‘Birthday Hair’.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesselation
essortment.com/all/alfredhitchcoc_rvhd.htm
labyrinth.net.au/~muffin/faqs_c.html
wordsmith.org/words/mcguffin.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGuffin

lesstalkrecords.com/canoe
danielhogan87@hotmail.com

Naked People Wearing Clothes - Episode 3: MacGuffin’s Big Dumb Banana

Hogan — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 07:14:17 +0000

Naked People Wearing Clothes - Episode 3: MacGuffin’s Big Dumb Banana from Daniel Hogan on Vimeo.

This is ‘Episode 3: MacGuffin’s Big Dumb Banana’ from my short film ‘Naked People Wearing Clothes’.

‘Episode Four: Suddenly, Tesselation’ will appear next Tuesday. Enjoy.

essortment.com/all/alfredhitchcoc_rvhd.htm
labyrinth.net.au/~muffin/faqs_c.html
wordsmith.org/words/mcguffin.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGuffin

lesstalkrecords.com/canoe
danielhogan87@hotmail.com

Published: Voiceworks & dotdotdash Magazines

Hogan — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 02:11:58 +0000

Tonight Voiceworks issue #81 is being launched in Melbourne while dotdotdash #4 is being launched in Perth. I have writing published in both.

The details for the Melbourne launch are here. It is being launched by Tom Cho!

The details for the dotdotdash launch are here.

Voiceworks and Dotdotdash magazines are available at Borders, Readings and all good bookstores and newsagencies. If not (demand your local stocks it!), you can purchase a copy online from here and here.

Naked People Wearing Clothes - Episode 2: Save Socks From Feet

Hogan — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 01:12:36 +0000

Naked People Wearing Clothes - Episode 2: Save Socks From Feet from Daniel Hogan on Vimeo.

This is ‘Episode Two: Save Socks From Feet’ from my short film ‘Naked People Wearing Clothes’.

‘Episode Three: MacGuffin’s Big Dumb Banana’ will appear next Tuesday. Enjoy.

essortment.com/all/alfredhitchcoc_rvhd.htm
labyrinth.net.au/~muffin/faqs_c.html
wordsmith.org/words/mcguffin.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGuffin

lesstalkrecords.com/canoe
danielhogan87@hotmail.com

Thanks to Matt Vaughn for allowing us to use his bathroom.

Naked People Wearing Clothes - Intro & Episode 1: MacGuffin Falls In Love

Hogan — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:38:49 +0000

Naked People Wearing Clothes - Intro & Episode 1: MacGuffin Falls In Love from Daniel Hogan on Vimeo.

This is the intro and ‘Episode One: MacGuffin Falls In Love’ from my short film ‘Naked People Wearing Clothes’.

‘Episode Two: Save Socks From Feet’ will appear next Tuesday. Enjoy.

www.essortment.com/all/alfredhitchcoc_rvhd.htm
www.labyrinth.net.au/~muffin/faqs_c.html
wordsmith.org/words/mcguffin.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGuffin

www.lesstalkrecords.com/canoe
danielhogan87@hotmail.com

Also, a special thanks to my sister Jennifer for helping me set my hand on fire.

Happy Birthday James! Part Two.

Hogan — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:34:16 +0000

Happy Birthday James! Part Two from Daniel Hogan on Vimeo.

Part Two of the video I made for James’ 21st! Lots of ancient footage.

Adventures in TV-Land

Hogan — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 04:06:56 +0000

Alexandra Neill has written for Good News Week, The Melbourne International Comedy Festival Great Debate and The Sideshow. Her blog, Adventures in TV-Land, details her amusing tales from behind-the-scenes.

I met Alex at Connecting Voices in Melbourne. We swapped stories of working in television and she asked me to write a guest post for her wonderful blog.

You can read my post at Adventures in TV-Land.

Also, beginning next Tuesday (if the internet Gods permit) I will be releasing my short film ‘Naked People Wearing Clothes‘ online. It will be released cut-up as four episodes. ‘Episode One: MacGuffin Falls In Love’ should appear here and on Vimeo next week.