The Four O'Clock Podcast

In Conversation with Artist Steve McPherson

For over 25 years Steve McPherson has used objects found from his local coast as a material for a range of artworks. Since 2007 the plastic shards and novelties have become his primary source material and a focus for the development of his concepts and concerns. Steve has recently been featured in a short film by filmmaker Julian Hanford called PLASTIC SONG - The art of Steve McPherson. All links discussed in the show can be accessed through the podcast website: fouroclockpodcast.com [https://www.fouroclockpodcast.com/]

In Conversation with Artist, Writer and Speaker, Dan Thompson

The journalist and author, John-Paul Flintoff, has described Dan Thompson as a visionary, an artist with a heartfelt sense of what matters in the real world, and the gumption to make it happen, not once but often. John-Paul also stated: It's unusual to spend time with Dan and not to come away inspired. In this edition of the Four O'Clock Podcast we learn about Dan's work as a writer, artist and social activist. NB: There is a small technical glitch on some of the audio recording  creating an echo but it does not interfere with the podcast.

In Conversation with Luke Beard, CEO of Exposure.Co

In this edition of the Four O'Clock Podcast we are in conversation with Luke Beard a photographer, CEO and founder of the web service Exposure that provides simple but empowering products for storytellers. Luke is also an Englishman who has made Atlanta, USA his home. The Exposure website is just shy of seven years old at this point. It came out on the back of Luke kind of taking photography a lot more seriously. At the time, he had just moved to San Francisco to join a kind of ideas incubator. It was never really clearly defined, but it was effectively a place where creative developers, writers, designers, engineers, were given resources to build solutions to problems that they had with the idea that eventually something would click or work or be a hit and so Exposure was born.

A Conversation with Photographer Gabrielle Motola

Gabrielle Motola is a photographer and storyteller, I first met Gabrielle in 2006 when she was taking street portraits in East London's Broadway market for her project, London E8  4PH. Gabrielle is a London based photographer, writer and podcaster. She frequently integrates solo motorcycle travel into her work, focusing on long-term projects, often evolving into immersive journeys that take her around the globe. She studied psychology, film and photography at the University of Miami and the Spéos Institute in Paris, and has also worked as a professional photographic printer, an editor and colourist in cinema. Gabrielle spent the better part of five years living in Iceland, where she produced her first book, An Equal Difference, published in 2016. A collection of essays, portraits and landscapes exploring the Icelandic mindset, An Equal Difference is inspired by our modern search for gender equality and shared humanity. It takes inspiration from, and analyses Icelandic society, but seeks to understand how we all could build equal and benevolent societies. It was during the making of this book that she began writing professionally. Show-notes for this podcast are at: https://www.fouroclockpodcast.com/ [https://www.fouroclockpodcast.com/]

Meet young entrepreneur Flynn Blackie

In this episode of The Four O'Clock Podcast we catch up with young entrepreneur, Fynn Blackie, and get to know who he is and what drives him. Also we discuss how Starling Bank helped get his company MOD Digital on the road. Flynn is a young entrepreneur who is making online waves in the web design and business marketing world with his company modern digital, which he created after spending some time on work experience with the website agency David and George in Edinburgh.