PREORDER The Long Weekend - graphic novel

The Long Weekend - graphic novel by Joshua Santospirito on Pozible

I've been slaving away on this comic for a few years now ... it's an adaptation of a psychological essay written about a Jungian concept called the Cultural Complex. The comic is about different cultures in Central Australia, it's about all of Australia ... it's about all cultures ... it's about the cultural mind of the group. It's both sad and funny, horrifying and witty ... and it's almost ready to be turned into a BOOK !!

I'm really hoping it'll be a beautiful book and it'd be great to have your help to be able to do that !! 

You can read the bits of the comic on the website (http://www.joshuasantospiritoart.com), where I have been slowly putting it up page by page as they're completed. The final book will have extra pages and notes and book design by Nadine Kessler (http://www.nadinekssler.com). The final copy of the book will also have a brand new piece of writing by Craig to go with the comic. I reckon he's a smashing writer and a unique voice in Australian writing! 

We have enough money to do the graphic design, the tricky part is paying for the printing of the copies, we're hoping to print about 500 copies and we need about $1500 more to get it done! 

A brief history of the comic's existence so far (written in the third person)

* 2006 - Josh Santospirito reads Craig's essay: The Long Weekend in Alice Springs whilst working in Indigenous communities in Central Australia as a mental health nurse.  * Josh likes what he reads. 

* 2008 - He starts drawing parts of the Long Weekend in comic form ... he decides that this is a very cathartic exercise to help digest the seeming chaos around him. 

* 2009 - He shows Craig San Roque. * Craig likes what he reads. 

* 2010 - Josh begins pencilling over 100 pages of a more complete adaptation of the comic

* 2011 - He commences inking of those pages and showing people on his website. * People like what they read. 

* 2012 - He will COMPLETE the comic by November 2012, have the book designed by Nadine. 

... he will ask for help to print around 500 copies !!! * So that even more people will like what they read. 

* 2013 - January / February printing. March -send y'all copies. *and y'all like what y'all read. 

SO that's it - I want you ALL to be a part of this project, making this comic into a printed version (as well as a proper-like E-book). If you don't have a credit card or hate punching your numbers into the interwebs but you still want to support the project - get in touch atdisco_jeans@yahoo.com.au and we can try to work something out. Anyone who hasn't got the dosh CAN STILL HELP by linking to this on your social media of choice!

 

Thanks a bunch guys!!

For tonnes of updates and information (as well as the entire comic) go to my

Twitter   |   Website   |   Facebook

 

I've been slaving away on this comic for a few years now ... it's an adaptation of a psychological essay written about a Jungian concept called the Cultural Complex. The comic is about different cultures in Central Australia, it's about all of Australia ... it's about all cultures ... it's about the cultural mind of the group. It's both sad and funny, horrifying and witty ... and it's almost ready to be turned into a BOOK !!

I'm really hoping it'll be a beautiful book and it'd be great to have your help to be able to do that !! 

You can read the bits of the comic on the website (http://www.joshuasantospiritoart.com), where I have been slowly putting it up page by page as they're completed. The final book will have extra pages and notes and book design by Nadine Kessler (http://www.nadinekssler.com). The final copy of the book will also have a brand new piece of writing by Craig to go with the comic. I reckon he's a smashing writer and a unique voice in Australian writing! 

We have enough money to do the graphic design, the tricky part is paying for the printing of the copies, we're hoping to print about 500 copies and we need about $1500 more to get it done! 

A brief history of the comic's existence so far (written in the third person)

* 2006 - Josh Santospirito reads Craig's essay: The Long Weekend in Alice Springs whilst working in Indigenous communities in Central Australia as a mental health nurse.  * Josh likes what he reads. 

* 2008 - He starts drawing parts of the Long Weekend in comic form ... he decides that this is a very cathartic exercise to help digest the seeming chaos around him. 

* 2009 - He shows Craig San Roque. * Craig likes what he reads. 

* 2010 - Josh begins pencilling over 100 pages of a more complete adaptation of the comic

* 2011 - He commences inking of those pages and showing people on his website. * People like what they read. 

* 2012 - He will COMPLETE the comic by November 2012, have the book designed by Nadine. 

... he will ask for help to print around 500 copies !!! * So that even more people will like what they read. 

* 2013 - January / February printing. March -send y'all copies. *and y'all like what y'all read. 

SO that's it - I want you ALL to be a part of this project, making this comic into a printed version (as well as a proper-like E-book). If you don't have a credit card or hate punching your numbers into the interwebs but you still want to support the project - get in touch atdisco_jeans@yahoo.com.au and we can try to work something out. Anyone who hasn't got the dosh CAN STILL HELP by linking to this on your social media of choice!

 

Thanks a bunch guys!!

For tonnes of updates and information (as well as the entire comic) go to my

Twitter   |   Website   |   Facebook

 

Below is page 96 of the comic

 

I have returned from a tour of Europe which was absolutely GREAT! Having played in Switzerland, Spain and Germany - met lots of great people and am looking forward to having another tour there in the future!

I'll get around to writing more about it here, but there is some more immediate matter to attend to first - there will be a concert in Sydney on Monday the 24th at the NOW now series, and just prior to heading off to that - there will be a Hobart gig to organise - details to be arranged and announced - Thursday 20th of this month!!

European Tour - AUGUST!!!

Tour dates and Album – Acousmatic Ecology Pt 1: a query

Acousmatic Ecology part 1: A Query
July 2012 on CD and as digital download from Bandcamp

CD or digital download of Acousmatic Ecology part 1: A Query  can be gotten for FREE (in July) through Bandcamp!

Drive West Today has been expanding over 2011 and 2012 to encompass more than just the cinematic experience of listening to sound. Joshua Santospirito’s guitar is more and more placed into textural compositions that contrast silence to clicks and bursts of sonar.

The recordings in the Acousmatic Ecology series are a document of one moment in a long slow exploration of stops and starts and counterintuition. All aimed at creating stillness within a maelstrom of anxiety and the elevation of the soul in the midst of confusion, attempting to take the listener into the performing experience.

Part 1 of the two-part series are selected pieces from a recording session in May in Hobart at the Scrapbook Studios. Part 2 will be out in late 2012 and will feature selected recordings that focus more on improvisational concepts within repetition.

credits
all music improvised by joshua santospirito
recorded and mixed by Ryan Lynch from scrapbook studios
May-June Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Concert Tour announced as part of the Acousmatic Ecology CD seriesAugust – Europe – I’m very excited to be travelling to Europe again!
Thursday 16 – Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain – Liceo Mutante
Friday 24 – Gelegenheiten, Berlin, Germany

September – Australia
Friday 21 – Hobart
Monday 24 – Sydney – NOW now series

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Keep your ears out for Part 2!!! – Available in November 2012 – with more tour dates to be announced then!

FINALLY - I released an album - you can buy it here on this blog page for $4-. I'll tell you more about it soon!!!

Experimenta Music at the Moonah Arts Centre

Another of the Acousmatic Ecology series of videos

Later this year(2012) I shall be travelling to Europe and hopefully playing a few shows within this series of music. Recently played on the roof of Mona (see last blog) and the response appears to have been very positive which is nice: that was an outdoors gig, very chilled out and as, a consequence, less intense than this particular video. Highlight was playing with Brian Ritchie at the end - he chose the Beatles song - Within you, without you, which was a fave of mine in my adolescent years and it totally took me back.

DWT @ MoMa

Very chilled out gig ... there were two little 2 year old girls who danced most of the gig, they made my day!!

Thanks to Nadine for filming from her beanbag.

Thanks to the Ice ice creamy people for making inspiring icecream.

TSH 2011 series

A longer video from the performance at The Silent Hour in Sydney by DWT

The Hobart Improvisation Collective

On Invasion Day (26th of Jan) in Australia a group of Hobartians went to the top of Mount Wellington (which is the dominant landform above Hobart, you can see it from everywhere) and made sound/noise improvisations in the look-out building at the top which is a concrete room with huge windows ... very resonant.

Here's a brief video which'll give you an idea of the beautiful setting of Mount Wellington


Here's the entire recording - about 42 mins or so.
Mount Wellington 26/1/12

If you're in Hobart and you'd like to join in any future events then click here to like us on facebook Or if you want to come and watch then just do the same.

The Barbarians

I'm in this this week ... gotta say - the rehearsals are shaping up and the stage looks bloody amazing ... I kind of wish I was in the audience.

Later on when I have a chance to scan them - I'll stick up some sketches I made whilst waiting around during rehearsals. They'll be at my art website.