http://ascotjsmith.com Tue, 20 Jul 2010 01:00:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Air date 7/5/2010 - 7/18/2010 EPISODE 10 "LUST DRIVES THE HEART IN AN ELECTRIC WORLD PT.2" Air date: 6/21/2010 - 7/4/2010 EPISODE 9 "ENTER THE PROGRAMMABLE MAN PT.1" Air date: 6/7/2010 - 6/20/2010 EPISODE 8 "LUST DRIVES THE HEART IN AN ELECTRIC WORLD PT.1" Air date: 5/24/2010 - 6/6/2010 EPISODE 7 Air date: 5/10/2010 - 5/23/2010 EPISODE ... http://ascotjsmith.com/2010/04/forever-people-20-audio-archive/ Last Man of Idaho (2010) [caption id="attachment_247" align="aligncenter" width="504" caption="Last Man of Idaho- "Hibernation" poster designed by IAN WILCOX"] [/caption] In this PHOTOFILM- a film structured around still images- a talking potato from the future guides an aspiring author as they travel through time. Highlights include: bank robbery, lottery winning, and cryogenic hibernation. http://ascotjsmith.com/2010/04/last-man-of-idaho/ NPR interview with Laura Spencer went on the airwaves March 18th on station KCUR 89.3 FM.  "Forever People": Couple from the Future Sends Messages to the Past. Arts writer Alex Schubert  wrote a special in depth article  for the Kansas City Star.  Published March 21, 2010,  ‘Forever People’ downtown is ... http://ascotjsmith.com/2010/03/forever-people-press/ Forever People 2.0 (2010) [caption id="attachment_146" align="aligncenter" width="476" caption="Photo credited to Ascot Smith and Robert Heishman"][/caption] In the year 2200 a nameless couple sends recorded messages into the past hoping to prevent a dystopian future.  However the two begin to use the recordings to confess their struggles of sustaining a relationship ... http://ascotjsmith.com/2010/03/forever-people-20/ “LAST MAN OF IDAHO” TO RECEIVE WORLD PREMIERE The world premiere of “Last Man of Idaho,” a film by Ascot J. Smith, is at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 11, at Kurruption, 1717 W. Ninth St., Kansas City. The event includes a silent auction of art from the film, merchandise from B-Bop Comics ... http://ascotjsmith.com/2009/06/last-man-of-idaho-pre-screeningfundraiser/ Forever People (2008) Two meandering office co-workers contemplate and fantasize about each other and their past lives in a post-apocalyptic future. In the end it is revealed the office co-workers are not humans but androids mimicking human ennui. [caption id="attachment_68" align="aligncenter" width="381" caption="Albert Burnes and Kerry Curtis stood perfectly still for over ... http://ascotjsmith.com/2009/06/forever-people/ BloodSport Remix (2007) [A] comic, postmodernist commentary on Hollywood film images and violence in sports- Kansas City Star (March 1st, 2007) A multi-channel installation, BloodSport Remix takes as its starting point the 1988 American martial arts classic, BloodSport, staring Jean-Cluade van Damme. By re-editing the film in non-linear, spatially oriented manner cuts ... http://ascotjsmith.com/2009/06/bloodsport-remix/ TRIPLE THREAT (2005) Triple Threat, a split screen narrative, focuses on the broken relationship of an abusive schizophrenic couple as they find comfort in sex, apathy, and Batman. http://ascotjsmith.com/2009/06/triple-threat/ Originally published at INKKC.COM on April 24th, 2009 Within the Aladdin’s Shrine’s appropriately titled “multipurpose” room was a hundred or so cartoonists with an array of eclectic tales for trade and sale. Slightly more organized than a garage sale, SPACE was a vast and seemingly aimless arrangement of comic book ... http://ascotjsmith.com/2009/05/kc-cartoonists-take-off-to-space-pt-2/ Originally published at INKKC.com on April 16th, 2009. We will be shooting off like a crew of astronauts filled with anticipation and destined towards the unknown, minus the air-tight suits and Velcro. Instead equipped with cartoonist’s gear- inks, pens, and papers- we aim for the Small Press & Alternate Comic Expo ... http://ascotjsmith.com/2009/05/kc-cartoonists-take-off-to-space-pt-1/