Dan, Paul, Ed Thompson catch up in an inpromtude episode of The Idle Hands Society Podcast. Sorry about the audio blowing out in a few spots; we recorded this gem unplanned using some very basic gear. As we’re getting into the slower months for our work, you’ll see us picking up the pace a little with the podcast.

We catch up after a little break to discuss the end of Dan’s first year at university, our collaborative project Adult Youth Club, the last art of maintaining friendships, and the Homeless World Cup.

Dan & Paul combine for the 43rd episode of The Idle Hands Society Podcast. Dan waxes lyrical about “LU cinnamon biscuits”, his new website, and his upcoming first exhibition at the Copeland Gallery on the 19th March 2023 (open between 4-8pm). We discuss if it’s possible to make pictures about how we feel rather than what we see. Paul also discusses the imminent release of his first zine, Not so far.

Dan & Paul talk too softly spoken Waterford artist and photographer David O’Mara. We discuss his passion for Japanese photo-books, how his colleagues are super polite about his work, and how is work has evolved.

Merry Christmas, Idle Handers! I hope you’re all having a good one. We hope you enjoy this episode of the Idle Hands Society Podcast. I’d love anybody reading this to take a moment to jump over to Instagram and leave us a comment on our latest post to let us know you read the show notes. The reason I’m asking is I spend a lot of time pulling all this together, I worry that I’m wasting my time researching and linking if no one is looking at them. Big love, Dan & Paul.

We have a chat about our future guest Alex Prior, we talk about Not So Far going to the printers, Tom Collins input into Paul’s new venture ‘Southerndown Press’, another moan about social media, the importance of personal work in effective marketing, Magnum Photos, Bieke Depoorter’s incredible collaboration with Agata.

Welcome to the lost episode of the Idle Hands Society Podcast. This episode was recorded on the 14th June 2022. Dan & Paul talk to Welsh designer, Tom Collins. We discuss his creative journey, from childhood his parents encouraged him to be artistic, from music to photography to design and recently back to photography and how they all link together. We talk about the muscle memory of art and good and bad habits. How being creative helps our mental health.

Dan & Paul talk to Al Brydon about his book ‘Even The Birds Were Afraid To Fly’, Al’s creative process, collecting notes, what makes a photograph good enough to show someone, how we’ve changed over time, what photography means to Al, and the formation of Inside The Outside Collective.

Today’s episode is the first one we’ve ever filmed. We’ve released the video on YouTube. We don’t often ask for things from you, but we’d appreciate as many subscriptions to our YouTube channel as we can manage. It’ll let us know if this colossal effort is worth it in the future. We have a slightly slower, more awkward start because this is the first for us. Please bear with us; we relax into it after a while. In our first ‘in-person-pod’, we discuss learning as a mature student. Dan has accepted a place for a BA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography. We talk about Dan’s motives and feelings about the move and whether going to university as a mature student is worth the time and money. And, of course, we wander off-topic more times than we realise.

In today’s over caffeinated episode, Dan and Paul consider why we create, tease episode 037 will be on YouTube, and announce our competition to win a copy of Lewis Quail’s ‘Big Brother’. Simply post about The Idle Hands Society on Instagram before the 10th June 2022 to be in with a chance of winning. Don’t forget to tag us so we see it! Full details at the end of the episode and on our show page.